GONK Overview
Well, perhaps I’m a glutton for punishment. I have really barely gotten going on R6-T3x and I’m already in the planning stage for a Power Droid. Now, there is So Much reference available for the R-Series droids, yet so little for GONK… but this is not a problem but a bonus for someone like me. I have said before that my favorite part of making is the problem solving and coming up with novel solutions!
Guessing at Dimensions
So, I have many images I have collected of the various Power Droids. I still have not found a definitive answer to the question of agreed upon dimensions. Here’s the thing, I know for the Original Trilogy, and a New Hope in particular, the Power Droid was just cobbled together using what was on hand. I think it is generally agreed that they used some sort of Storage Containers. Also, the various PDs seen in the films are often different from the last. I feel that I have some freedom in coming up with dimensions that work for me.
Dimensions - Starting at Zero
I have gathered some of my reference photos that show the Power Droid from “head” to toe, and I have been trying to get a feel for the Scale of the body. I know that this is not an exact science, the way I have chosen to do this part, but I think it will serve my purposes… I am simply taking selected images and scaling them so that the Droid in the picture stands 1.1 Meter Tall (as I determined in an earlier post) then measured various other dimensions in the image to try to come to some kind of consensus by averaging what I find.
Closing in on some Numbers
After the last exercise in chasing measurements I came up with a couple, somewhat arbitrary, numbers I’ll start with. First, the Power Droid stands 1.1 meter tall, from ground to the top of the body. Second, the body is 820mm in height. These two numbers seem to give me a nice, average, proportions. Using the 820mm Height, I’ll revisit some of the pictures in my collection and try to home in on the remaining dimensions.
Just pick a number, already
OK, so after pouring over my less than scientific findings from my scaling exercise, I think I have what amounts to a consensus of sorts. First, I want to reiterate that I KNOW this is not at all precision work, and I also know that many GONKs have been built with less thought into this kinda stuff, but I’ll be building from scratch and I just need to feel that I have done my best to be close to the screen used Droids.