How to mold a robot from plasticine?
Among boys, robots are gaining more and more popularity thanks to the released cartoons. Young robotics enthusiasts, keen on watching the adventures of electronic machines, prefer to make toys themselves from scrap materials. The proposal to mold together a plasticine craft will cause indescribable delight in the child. Every boy or girl will definitely love making toys with their own hands.
Classic version
It will be easy to mold a combat robot from plasticine if you figure out in advance what constituent parts of its structure are made of, then model the object and assemble the individual pieces into one craft.
The appearance of a homemade robot depends on the imagination of the masters, so the toy can be dazzled based on your preferences or copy the image of your favorite character from a cartoon or movie.
To make a plasticine model, you will need plasticine bars of different colors, as well as special tools: a stack, toothpicks and a plasticine board. All models are made without wire. To securely hold the created structure together, you should use a wooden skewer.
Robot characters often have disproportionately large limbs compared to the size of their heads and bodies. Before starting work, it is necessary to properly distribute the blocks of plasticine.
So for the sculpting you need a large green piece to be used as the base color. You will also need gray, red, yellow, black and other bars from the set. The amount of material used directly depends on the size of the craft.
If you want to make a bigger robot, you will need more bars.
The robot sculpting instruction consists of several consecutive steps.
- Preparation of initial details that will serve as the main elements. Model formation: start with the torso, which docks with the lower mount.
- To make a head, you need to roll a piece of plasticine into a ball, and then mold a rectangle out of it, flattening it from 6 sides.
- A smaller block is attached to the top of the body, which will become the head of the future robot. Between the body and the head, it is necessary to lay another piece for fastening.
- For the eyes, take two small balls of plasticine and press down on the robot's face to make flat circles. Instead of eyes, you can make a visor by sticking a gray oval. Use the tip of a toothpick to simulate switches or controls.
- To make legs, you will need to roll dark green plasticine into thin tubes. Using toothpicks or stacks, you need to draw longitudinal rings. The feet of the robot can be made in the form of truncated cones.
- The lower limbs are then attached to the rest of the body.
- Hands are made similar to legs, but they should be smaller. Having collected all the parts together, you should get a robot figurine. The case can be improved by adding all sorts of small details in the form of buttons, LEDs and other bright elements.
How to make a transformer?
Making the character of the movie "Transformers", it will be very difficult to create a transforming technique, but you can recreate the appearance of your favorite character.
To make Optimus Prime out of plasticine, you need pieces of red and black. The red block can be used immediately without rolling into a spherical shape so that there are stripes on the body.
The work process is described in stages below.
- When you start sculpting, you need to cut off 1/3 of the red bar, then squeeze the material from the sides and smooth it out to get the robot's body, tapering to the bottom of the structure.
- Then you need to take two small pieces and give them a square shape.
- A piece of plasticine is taken as the lower part of the body, from which a piece in the shape of the letter "T" is cut out by using a stack.
- After that, they move on to making the head. For her, you need gray plasticine, rolled into an oval shape. On the head, you can make red horns, and instead of eyes, attach blue dots. Also, using a toothpick, you need to cut out the outlines of the mouth. The head is attached to the central part by stringing on a match.
- Now you can proceed to sculpting the black parts. First, you need to mold a trapezoid from black plasticine to connect the upper and lower parts of the body. It should be pressed down between the red segments.
- Blind 4 sausages that will act as the arms and legs of the transformer. You also need to mold two blanks in the form of tablets.
- Continuing to fasten the individual parts together, black tablets need to be attached to the robot's shoulders, and below - larger sausages. Then black plasticine is attached, which will serve as the upper part of the legs.
- For the lower part of the legs, you need to take the remains of red blocks, cut lengthwise into equal segments. Instead of feet, red cakes should be fashioned and attached to the bottom of the structure.
- Red stripes can be attached to the side of the arms. You can also add wings to the shoulders. Make the hands from black pieces to make bent fists.
- The resulting transformer should be pressed against a hard surface so that it becomes more stable.
Other crafts
Modeling is very useful for the child, contributing to the development of his imagination, memory and especially fine motor skills of the hands. For children 3-4 years old, simple models are suitable, which are easy to blind themselves or with the help of an adult.
The robot should be made from gray plasticine, since it exactly resembles the texture of metal. Black and blue should be used as complementary colors.
Star Wars fans will be fascinated by the process of sculpting the R2-D2 repair robot. To make it, an image should be placed in front of your eyes, since it will be difficult to remember visually small details.
- Blanks for the body are created. For this, gray plasticine is taken, and a hemisphere and a cylinder of the same diameter are molded from its pieces.
- The resulting elements are fastened together to give the structure a suitable shape. At the junction, the plasticine is smoothed out, and then 2 longitudinal strips are made.
- Several strips of blue plasticine are attached to the body. Below, a black oval piece is pressed in, and two gray ovals decorated with longitudinal stripes are glued on top of it.
- The most difficult part of sculpting a robot is making small parts to create a believable look. A rolled flat oval of blue color is attached to the droid's face, and on it are black dots in the form of eyes and another dot on top.
- An angular plasticine shape acts as a leg.
- Analogs of hands are made in gray - for this, truncated cones, cakes and cylinders are molded.
- Then the parts are connected to the main body, and the robot is ready.
Chappy
This is the name of a character from the sci-fi movie of the same name. To make it from ordinary plasticine together with a child, you will need to take mostly gray blocks, as well as black or blue, orange and yellow elements. To accurately recreate the appearance of Chappie, it is recommended to study its design, memorize small details and the way of connecting parts.
The hands are formed from gray plasticine, but to achieve a complete resemblance, one of them can be made black or blue, and the other orange. The body and head are molded similarly to the instructions provided.
Legs are made from composite elements - basic gray parts, if desired, they can be supplemented with black inserts instead of knees and elbows.
The hands and feet are also available in black or blue. Remember to stack the characteristic vertical and horizontal stripes on all limbs.
Place bright yellow and orange details on the body: buttons, screen and more. You can also make a dollar sign. Detailed design can be complemented by flashlights and fenders. On the head there are orange horns and yellow eyes, which are easy to sculpt from the corresponding colors.
With cones
Using pine cones as an additional material, you can create a funny miracle of robotics that curious kids will definitely like. Together, you can easily make a robot from cones of different sizes and plasticine.
The instruction consists of several consecutive steps.
- Decide which cone is suitable for this or that part of the structure.
- Oblong, unopened cones, covered with plasticine, or twigs, can become like arms and legs.
- A rounded bump will be needed to make the torso.
- A smaller bump or acorn can be used as a head.
- All constituent elements must be securely fastened with plasticine.
Next, it is worth moving on to decorating the robot. Instead of antennas on the head, you can use plasticine inserts or put an acorn head on it, and shape your face using pieces of plasticine of the desired shape.
With an acorn
As you know, preschoolers love to collect a collection of acorns while walking through the autumn forest.
Taking more acorns and plasticine, it will turn out to make an unusual robot.
To make a figurine from this material, you need to proceed step by step.
- Plasticine will be used as a bonding material.
- All parts are obtained from connected acorns without a cap.
- The limbs consist of two acorns connected to each other with plasticine.
- The body consists of 2 rows, each with 3 acorns, also connected with the help of plasticine. A couple more elements are attached on top.
- Feet are made of three acorns: two are located along and one - across.
- A bar of brown plasticine can act as a head, which is given the required shape, decorated with horns, eyes or protective glass.
If you have the desire and ability to fantasize, you can create any robot with your own hands. Adult help will not be superfluous, especially if something does not work out.
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