As prop and costume builder Shawn Thorsson works to build a life-size replica of RoboCop’s ED-209 robot for Maker Faire Bay Area, he’s walking us through some of the techniques and skills he using along the way. In this tutorial, he breaks down how to use body filler, i.e. Bondo.
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Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.
He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.
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