Perseverance 1:1 Scale

Hello!

Its been a very long time in the making, but it’s finally done. After months of work, this beauty right here is a 1x1 (almost) exact replica of the Perseverance Rover! The scale, weight, and appearance are all almost exactly like the real rover. This was supposed to be a tribute to the rover launch, but it took way longer than I expected, so I’m many months late. But not to worry, this is a follow up to my 1x1 scale Atlas V Here There are over 15 cameras, so close to the real amount. I added all that I could find.

But anyways, you probably don’t care about any of that anyways. So, let me explain how this works:

The controls can be very complicated, or annoying depending on your memory basically. There is brakes, but they don’t work very well, so I usually just turn the wheels.

Deploy suspension: activate all stages and turn on AG 1. If you turn off AG 1 it will still stay in the down position though.

Forward: throttle up

Backward: translate forward

Turn right/left: translate up, then turn the joystick whatever way you need to turn. (This is for turning while stationary though. It wouldn’t work while moving. It can turn 360 in the same spot.)

Turn right/left while driving: use translate right or left, so basically the same as the stationary turning, just without using translate up.

The suspension should work, although the parts don’t really like to cooperate, but I tried my best to make a functioning Rocker-Bogie suspension system.

To operate arm:

Main control of arm: use slider 1 and slider 2 to control the arm, while Manual Arm control is activated. Slider 1 moved it away from the Rover body itself, and slider 2 moves it forward, up, down, and back a little. Try it out and experiment

Arm turret control: it’s the same idea for the turret. Use slider 1 and slider 2 to control different movements. Also, slider 2 turns on the ‘drill’ so it will be on if you use it.

To turn the rover head up, just simply press ‘flip up.’ It has 5 cameras, including the super cam. It turns 180 degrees in both ways, and almost completely vertically.

Control the ‘satellite’ by using Slider 1 and 2 and turning on satellite control AG.

I added the RTG, but I have to give credit to KraZIvan for posting them here. I couldn’t find any other way to realistically recreate the RTG myself, so I had to use it. Also, it should replenish itself when you aren’t using any electronics.

Anyways, thank you for reading! And hopefully you enjoy or like this craft, I spent so much time on it, and I appreciate any support. It may not be perfect, but in my opinion this is the closest replica of perseverance I’ve seen on this site (no offense to anyone I’ve seen some really good ones out there).

Well, thx and have a nice day!

(Oh, I will have a video out soon for a tutorial)