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Step 4Side walls, back wall and seat
The side walls are just foam-core poster board with a 2"-wide front and top edge attached. (I didn't bother using resin on these, though it probably would've protected them from the dings and scrapes they got.) I cut two rectangles in each, both near the front and just big enough for the snap-saddle of the upper-leg piston to fit through. I spaced these about 5.5" apart apart, the same distance as between the larger holes in the top of the mech feet.
Since I wanted these to be detachable for easy storage, I used a glue-gun to attach a wooden dowel to the back, making sure to leave the ends of the dowel glue-free so I could slip a zip tie behind each end. This way I could attach th dowel to the upper pipe on the main frame with a
zip-tie loop, and simply slide the loops off when I wanted to detach the sides.
At the top of each side wall I added a hole for my side railing (though in retrospect I should have put them further forward, as my arms were a little cramped as it was). These railings just consisted of a couple pipes connected by several right-angle joints.
The back wall is simply another pieced of poster-board, cut to fit the bottom back of the frame area. For decoration I cut the heads off of two slotted-spoon cooking utensils, leaving a little bit of handle remaining. After everything was painted I stabbed the handle stub through
the foam core and hot-glued both spoon-heads in place to look like exhaust vents.
The seat is just the lid from a cardboard banker's box cut to fit over the front half of the main box frame (the back half is where my body fit). I just zip-tied this to the frame bottom on both sides.
Since I wanted these to be detachable for easy storage, I used a glue-gun to attach a wooden dowel to the back, making sure to leave the ends of the dowel glue-free so I could slip a zip tie behind each end. This way I could attach th dowel to the upper pipe on the main frame with a
zip-tie loop, and simply slide the loops off when I wanted to detach the sides.
At the top of each side wall I added a hole for my side railing (though in retrospect I should have put them further forward, as my arms were a little cramped as it was). These railings just consisted of a couple pipes connected by several right-angle joints.
The back wall is simply another pieced of poster-board, cut to fit the bottom back of the frame area. For decoration I cut the heads off of two slotted-spoon cooking utensils, leaving a little bit of handle remaining. After everything was painted I stabbed the handle stub through
the foam core and hot-glued both spoon-heads in place to look like exhaust vents.
The seat is just the lid from a cardboard banker's box cut to fit over the front half of the main box frame (the back half is where my body fit). I just zip-tied this to the frame bottom on both sides.
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