Battle damaged robot

Hi everybody, how are you doing today? Just sharing one of my many little projects here. This poor little fellow got seriously damaged in battle, but... he's still standing strong! We all get damaged one way or another, we all fall. But the trick is to get up again. Over and over.

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Reflections.

He looked at his battered reflection in the old, weathered mirror, and couldn't believe he was still alive, considering the damage he had sustained. Well, that is, as much as a droid like him could be considered to be 'alive.' Was he, really? He thought about this quite regularly, and even more so now that he spent so much time alone. For sure, he was capable of conscious, autonomous thought, and felt emotions like joy, affection, fear, and sadness. All things associated with 'being alive.' But still..

He turned on the remaining light bulb in his left eye socket, and a warm glow illuminated the mirror. If anything, he thought, he wasn't capable of dreaming. Whenever he went into 'sleep mode' to allow his systems to get updates, upgrades, and the like, he never dreamed of anything. He resented that, in a way, because he knew that humans dreamed -even those who believed they didn't- , and that at least some animals like dogs did dream as well. As he imagined it, it was like being awake while being asleep. So maybe the ability to dream was actually the ultimate manifestation of being alive...

Someone once said to him: "they can take away everything from you, my friend, but nobody can take away your dreams. Those are yours and yours alone; your biggest treasure!"  He looked again at the mirror reflection of his battle damaged, metal alloy body, and thought: "But what if one doesn't have them? Does that mean that, when it comes to it, one has nothing left to lose?"

 

That's all for now, folks. Thanks for visiting, keep safe, and see you next time! 

 

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Rust & Steel Special: Battle Damaged Droid.

Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well!

Here's a little, very fun project I did last night. I had been working on a recently acquired dolls house during the day, so I decided to relax a bit at night by doing this, totally different, little thingie you see here.

 

 

 

I've loved sci-fi films ever since I was a kid and, Star Wars aside, my favorites always have been the 1950's vintage ones. You know, those old, black & white flicks that always seem to start with a nuclear explosion, leading to the creation of some evil mutant creature that turns their anger at unsuspected civilians. The monsters in those films are usually actors dressed up in a costume, so no computer generated stuff as is common today. Perhaps my favorite 'monster maker' of that era is the late Paul Blaisdell of 'Invasion of the Saucer Men' and 'The She-Creature' fame, films that have since achieved a 'cult' status with many sci-fi fans.

 

Blaisdell was incredibly creative, and testimony to that is the fact that he could come up with new 'monsters' while working under a very huge time pressure, and for very little money (for some of his work he was actually never paid). The man's creativity and resourcefulness are definitely a big inspiration to me! 

 

 

 

Back to my own little robot; it was something I've been wanting to do for a while. I have several 'retro' robots in my collection, and seeing them triggered the desire to make a miniature one of my own. So I gathered some odd pieces here and there, worked on them, and put this little fellow here together. As you can see, he's seen better days, missing many parts, and being kind of rusty. But nevertheless he still retains a certain cuteness and personality, which is quite something for a robot, or 'droid' as is more common language today.

 

 

 

I'm not sure yet how I'm going to use it, but chances are that he'll end up being part of some larger, sci-fi themed project! In any case, I'm very happy how he turned out, and to be honest, I already became kind of attached to him!

 

That's all for now, folks. Thanks for visiting, keep safe, and see you next time! 

 

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