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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?

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 <img src="http://rebeldroids.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/normal_MSE_01.JPG" width="200">
+== References ==
+Photos - We need more Mouse photos in the [http://rebeldroids.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5 Mouse Reference]] section.
+The [http://www.rebeldroids.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=9 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 [http://mousedroidbuilders.club/ Mouse Droid Builders] Club Forum has been created.
+There's also a Facebook page for mouse droid builders.
+== Plans ==
+There are [http://www.rebeldroids.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=19 MSE-6 flatpack plans] in the files section.
 == Build Logs ==
 Several folks have been building mice, these might be helpful:
 [http://rebeldroids.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=67 Toby's MSE-6] is a great build log.
 [http://www.rebeldroids.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=42 Paul's] got a thread with lots of interesting details.
 [http://www.rebeldroids.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=212 Roger's] started an MSE-6 build.
+[http://www.rebeldroids.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=219 UK MSE-6 Builder's Club] Droid - cute & fun!
 [http://www.rebeldroids.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=193 SDW Mouse Droid] - Shubert's build.
 [http://www.rebeldroids.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=39 Lynelle] has a thread for King Arthur.
 [http://www.rebeldroids.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=5 Savage] of course starts from 3D models.
 [http://www.rebeldroids.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=7 MCK-Y] is a Lego Mouse Droid for something different.
-== References ==
-Photos - We need more Mouse photos in the [http://rebeldroids.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5 Mouse Reference]] section.
-The [http://www.rebeldroids.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=9 Mouse Droid] forum on rebeldroids has info
-He has plans in the Files section! http://rebeldroids.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=63
-There's also info on the Yahoo Mouse Builder's group and some on Astromech.net.
 == Sounds ==
-We never heard any sounds in the movie - maybe next time?
+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
-== Parts Reference ==
+== Construction ==
-The Sentry has flat sides, I'm not sure of the original material.
+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.
-* Antennae - there are 3 antennae on the top
+=== Car Frame ===
-* Head
+The important aspects are finding a frame with the correct wheelbase, or a frame that can be extended to the correct wheelbase.
-* Black neck ring - this contains LEDs on some sides.  The blue one is "front" on the movie droid for operator reference.
+Other important donor car details are:
-* Body
+* How will it support additional MSE-6 weight?
-* Skirt
+* Can the wheel width be extended appropriately?
-* Faux wheels - each corner has a small black ball pretending to be wheels.  In practice they sit a few mm above the floor.
+* Can appropriate wheels fit it?
-* Lego greebles! - Yes, Lego!  The bottom black details were created from Lego, then molded and cast in lightweight resin.  Each of the 4 sides is theoretically identical, though I notice the seems in the corners don't fit perfectly on the movie model.
-* Holonomic drive - the movie droid has 4 omniwheels arranged so that it can rotate in place and move in any direction.  Allows interesting movement and makes it fun to drive.
-The original is not terribly heavy but awkward enough to be a two person lift when we saw it being carried off the stage.
+=== 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 [http://rebeldroids.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=63 flat-pack] plans in the MSE-6 file library.
-== Construction ==
+== Suppliers ==
-There are flat pack files in the gallery!  No complete builds yet, but they should be straightforward to laser/cnc/hand cut from styrene.
+TBD:
+* Recommendations for car frames?
+* Where to get shells from?

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