BBL-BBQ Action Figure (Hoover Constellation)

For the last several years, I've been making functional life-sized robots from Star Wars and other science fiction settings.

One of the first projects that I built (due to limited resources and a bent sense of humor) was "Artie Deco", a parody of R2-D2 from the 1978 Ernie Fosselius spoof film Hardware Wars, which I started in late 2015.  The original Artie Deco prop was a repainted General Electric Swivel-Top vacuum cleaner from the mid-1950s, and mine is the same model (but radio controlled).

As The Force Awakens was coming out around that time, it occurred to me to wonder what the Hardware Wars universe's version of BB-8 would be like.  I named the character “BBL-BBQ” because it amused me.  I decided it would need a unique method of movement, it should be round, and it should be orange.

Enter the Hoover Constellation vaccum cleaner…

It's round and it moves like a hovercraft.  Perfect.  

The real BBL-BBQ is based on an orange and white Hoover Constellation model 444.

This printable is a little action figure that I made for him.  I wasn't happy with the proportions of the official Hoover Constellation model on Thingiverse, so I modeled my own, roughly based on my actual vacuum.

To use this, print each of the models (except for “BBL-BBQ_Complete.3mf”, which is just the assembled model).  The equator, handle, and base are typically printed with one color of filament, while the other parts are printed in a different color.  There are two holes for rough alignment of the main body sections (use sections of 1.75mm filament) during gluing.