Day 1: Concept, Face, and Frame.
Pleased with the current state of the face and hat after some experimentation. I wanted to make the hat much much larger, but I couldn't without making the head section far too heavy for the rest of the build. The torso, arms, and upper legs are just placeholders for now to get an idea of scale, and the lower legs and feet have the heft I was going for overall. There is a lot of detail work to add still to get the look I'm going for, and the final build will be 3 Tex Mechs with a coordinating color scheme inspired by this music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg
and yes, the mechs will have matching cowboy minifigs. The mechs themselves will be armed with some combination of oversized pistols, long rifle, and/or lasso.
Once I'm past the core prototype stage, I might make a variant of the face that allows the lower mouth hinge to move a row of teeth as well, but it would involve re-designing the teeth area completely. For now, having just the lower lip and chin move is funny enough and I'm fine with it.
The last step I took in the project was to experiment with eyes. I've got a nice selection of parts that could fit in these places, but I think the printed mixel-style white and black eyes are the best. They are a bit more uncanny which makes them more menacing, and I've got a bunch of variations of these parts for various expressions as needed.
