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Mel
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Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 163
Location: Victoria
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Make-up
July 24th 2005
Cosmetics was the all important task for today for Scoopy, as well as some driving practice. Her little 'gold nailpolish' job on the weld points for the battery housing look fabulous, and with the 'metallic blue' job for the contrasting finish, she's as gorgeous as can be.
Something tells me lm up against Inspector General the day after tomorrow. It's been a free run till now and lm just not sure that my luck will hold. Event after event has passed, yet not once have l drawn against him for battle - very weird!
With only 1 day left till the Vics battle it out - l would like to take this opportunity to thank all the roboteers from around the country, for their support. RoboWars events at Sidetracked here in Vic, take approx 7-8 staff members to run, up to $1500.00 in costs and 3-5 days in organisation, to put on. A big pat on the back to all of you who have donated your time one way or the other and to all the rest, l can only hope that you have your bot ready for battle when the time comes.
Thankyou to the Kerro brothers for the permission to use one of their cad design drawings for this events pit passes also.
Mel
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Mel
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Location: Victoria
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Round 3 Vic
Round three saw
damage to one of Scoopy's IBC's and l am still trying to figure out exactly what and why it's happened. Fight 1 with I.G saw batteries come lose and the connected wires suffer exposure to their core. This cost her the fight, and then silly me did a sticky tape job to cover them and simply tucked them backed into their housing. A quick test of the drive control - (but not the weapon) and Mel thought Bob was her uncle!
Now exactly why the driver of Battle Damage was running late to this event and didn't have an active weapon on his bot, was unbeknowns to me at the time, but, l can sure be happy that he was indeed late and unweaponed, for this was the fight (2)where l discovered that l had no weapon or arm control either. Thanks to Jason's late night with the boys, Scoopy won this battle through a persistant bash match and having a dead (weapon) IBC didn't really matter all that much in the end.
A spare IBC for the weapon was installed after this match, and Scoopy was ready for Pinscher! This match was one for the giggle book and will be remembered for a long time to come - (see video upload in relevent event thread). How does the song go? 'victory' 'victory' the winning.......
Onto battle with Minimower!!! last years champ - and not one of Scoopy's favourites. She fought hard here and the points must have been so very close, lm just glad l wasn't one of the judges! - but she scraped through nonetheless. l think all the hard driving prac paid of here.
Ballistic just had to be in the lineup didn't he! Hasn't he retired YET??? Aw well, was a good chance to see Scoopy's self righting do its thing and she managed to stay active till the end of the match and lost by only a few points thanks to one of the judges, as the other two judges were tied on their decisions. So, all in all, she did a whole lot better than she usually does with this mighty opponant!.
Just had word that scoopy will be arriving in about an hours time with her new colours!! Much thanks to Lou and her airbrushing talents! l hope Scoopy is feeling much better now after Round 3 and she will be enjoying her relax day at the Technikunst Festival tomorrow, very muchly
Melxox
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Mel
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Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 163
Location: Victoria
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Rave & Deacon Uni
Well it seems
as though Scoopy Doo has a dedicated following - so ok, just one more update then before the January event here in Victoria.
With 1 kg to spare for more protective armor, the rubber cut to suit/size and secret tail gate Ms Doo is now sporting, will do the job just nicely. Her new weld-sprung snap shutting battery housing was a master fluke of efforts and will see her free of the usual gaffa wrap panic that has plagued her readiness and performance at past events. A spare weapon arm is in the bag as usual and the three battery packs have been re-covered so there is no chance of a shorting if they come into contact with the front metal housing.
As of this moment, l am guessing that l have approx 2 more hours work to do on her and she will be ready to rumble with 'all previously known weaknesses' addressed.
Other than that, the only thing left to concern myself with is what colour l should paint the tray and whether or not to write 'mumma's coming' on the blade in dripping rust.
With a practise run booked for tomorrow and Triple M by my side...l can only say that the buddish gods must be smiling on me.
l feel so honoured to be battling with so many other creative designs - but l do have one word of warning to those who might want to scratch Scoopy's paint and that is...that the artist who designed and painted it, is a six foot sweedish amazon (no joke) and may in fact be at the event.
My Deakin Doco Dames will be with us once again to do some more camera work for Part 2 of their filming endeavour, so if you have something nice to say about the sport and wish for it to be recorded into history...then say away!. l look forward to seeing the documentary for the very first time - hopefully this Saturday night when day1 of the battles is over. And sincerely thank Lisa Blumenstein and co for their dedication to Robowars Australia. Many thanks also, to Jaycar for their flyer support in the build up to this event.
The fact that Scoopy is now fairly well battle ready, leaves me with more time for strategic planning and national robotic gossip sessions - which may, or may not, unveil some priceless information - who knows?
Feel free to write your 'Go Scoopy Go' banners and yell as loudly as l do!
Melxox _________________ It's a She Thing
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