SearchMSE-6 Mouse Droid

The MSE-6 "Mouse" Droid is most remembered for being scared by Chewbacca in the Death Star corridors of Star Wars IV: A New Hope. However, it appears through VII: The Force Awakens, perhaps event more often.

References

Photos - We need more Mouse photos in the Mouse Reference] section.

The Mouse Droid forum on rebeldroids has info

He has plans in the Files section! http://rebeldroids.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=19

Additional Resources

Early on there was the Yahoo Mouse Builder's group and there's some info on Astromech.net.

More recently a Mouse Droid Builders Club Forum has been created.

There's also a Facebook page for mouse droid builders.

Plans

There are MSE-6 flatpack plans in the files section.

Build Logs

Several folks have been building mice, these might be helpful:

Toby's MSE-6 is a great build log.

Paul's got a thread with lots of interesting details.

Roger's started an MSE-6 build.

UK MSE-6 Builder's Club Droid - cute & fun!

SDW Mouse Droid - Shubert's build.

Lynelle has a thread for King Arthur.

Savage of course starts from 3D models.

MCK-Y is a Lego Mouse Droid for something different.

Sounds

The MSE-6 did not make a huge variety of sounds in the films, but we have a few to work with. In addition fans have created some other fun MSE-6 related sounds.

Mouse Droid Anatomy

• Body - the main shell of the droid
• Top Greebles - there are two identical rows of details on the tops.
• Side circuit board - two different surplus circuit boards were used. From the various droids left it appears that droids had different patterns of chips on different builds.
• Skirt - runs around the bottom of the shell with cutouts for the wheels
• R/C car frame - Mouse Droids are built on an R/C frame

Construction

The MSE-6 is a fairly simple droid compared to some. The movie droid is built off of an R/C car body with a custom shell.

Car Frame

The important aspects are finding a frame with the correct wheelbase, or a frame that can be extended to the correct wheelbase. Other important donor car details are:

• How will it support additional MSE-6 weight?
• Can the wheel width be extended appropriately?
• Can appropriate wheels fit it?

Shell

Shells have been made in numerous fashions. Since the shell is fairly simple, there are runs of vacuformed shells which can make a build pretty fast. However, since it is simple, it is fairly easy to cut styrene shells using the flat-pack plans in the MSE-6 file library.

Suppliers

TBD:

• Recommendations for car frames?
• Where to get shells from?