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I used a variety of plastic rods, a screw and a small bit of thicker gauge floral wire to create this servo arm. I'm not going to include measurements I would suggest you just use whatever you have laying around. I intend this tutorial to be more inspirational than instructional. It only took about 15 minutes to create. I hope you enjoy...

First I found a small screw and matched it with a hollow plasticard tube.
I then cut a section of square rod and cut a matching section from the hollow tube.

I glue those together, cut the head off the screw and inserted it into the hollow tube
I carved up and drilled another piece of square rod as seen below. Taking another piece of hollow tube I carved a piece out to mate it with the square bit.

Once these where mated and glued together I punched two small circles out of a sheet of plasticard. These could have also been sliced of the end of a rod.

The circles where glued on either side of the arm where the tube and square bit met.
I carved up another square bit and drilled a small hole in the side to fit my floral wire. I also sliced the a small piece off the end of a hex rod

assembled it looks as such...

Next I sliced a small bit of H bar rod and a length of very thin flexible circular rod.

I glued the hbar to the arms base and connected the thin rod from the back of the drill (which has a small opening) to the hbar.
for details I sliced several pieces from a small hex rod

Here is the finished product next to another that I made. *note I later cleaned up the rough bit just above the first joint.

This is so innovative! It looks so complicated, yet you break it down into super-simple steps and it screams kickassery when done !

Thanks man, This is my first Dakka tutorial. It was fun making it, although next time I will focus a bit more on picture quality. lol once they are cropped and magnified they look pretty blurry.

Yeah, my photography is Gak too, If your camera has a MACRO setting, try that. I let my camera do the thinking on auto for wide shots, but macro seems to work for closeups. That sorta helped me.

Wow, nice tutorial.

Very cool. You have inspired me to begin work on my own tutorial for the similar stuff I did.on my necron kill team. Exalted.

Well laid out tutorial.

If it was indeed your first - I look forward to your next!


Yeah - Macro settings can be something to investigate.

Yea they are camera phone pics, no macro option. i may try with an older camera that i know has macro

THANKS. I am one step closer to a kit bashed Tecmarine

This will help me finish a conversion I was making! Thanks. Maybe when I finish it, I'll post it here to show a good aplication!

Rennoc215 wrote:This will help me finish a conversion I was making! Thanks. Maybe when I finish it, I'll post it here to show a good aplication!

That would be great I hope you do!

Wow... very impressive tutorial! Love it!

It is inspiring me to finally get my MotF his Servo arms done. Thanks for reminding me the rule of cool need not be complex.

holy gak... now i can ripp my attemt at making a drill from GS apart^^ very good work depraved!!! this will help me a lot!

vik

im making plastic piston shears for scratch-built deff dreds, but wanted a bit of variety in thier killy arms, this will be a massive help, nice tut!

His is the drill that will pierce the heavens?

Damn it, you make it look so simple

sweet..