Other improvements included a more authentic chrome finish. "The first Terminator robot was made of a plastic material," said SWS supervisor and Co-Founder of Legacy Effects, Shane Mahan, "like a lens cap that might have the look of chrome, but is really plastic. We'd run the robot pieces through an electrostatic process to apply a metallic finish; but, in shooting the first Terminator, we'd found that it chipped very easily. That was a heavy action film -as this one would be -and we were constantly bashing that thing through walls. So, by the end of shooting Terminator, the Endoskeleton puppets were literally patched together with paint and tin foil. There were little patches all over them to hide where the metallic finish had flaked off. By the time we got to Terminator 2, we used an actual chroming process for making the Endoskeleton. It was a heavier material, but it made the Endoskeleton puppets more durable, and the metallic luster was much more authentic looking. It made a huge difference." Although the chrome was a heavier material, the Endoskeleton puppets created for Terminator 2 were lighter overall, because the more durable exterior structure obviated the need for solid steel supports internally. As a result, the full- body puppet weighed half the 100 pounds of the original. "The advance of materials and engineering allowed us to make something that was both lighter and more durable," Mahan said. "We didn't have to put steel and solid epoxy inside these things. Everything was laid up with more consideration for the weight. They still had enough weight to feel authentic; but they were more operational." The weight of the Endoskeleton puppets was of particular concern to Mahan and 25-year SWS supervisor and Co-Founder of Legacy Effects, John Rosengrant, both of whom would strap head-and-torso configurations of the puppets onto their backs to make them ambulatory in mid-range shots.

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