Building a pocket vent – the comic book version!
Just for fun, I’ve made a comic book version of how to build your own pocket vent..
Enjoy!
Finished my first Pocket Vent
Well, this post doesn’t really come with a big cliffhanger, since the title pretty much says it all!
Continuing where I left off yesterday, I did find some time to work on the pocket vent!
I went out this morning and picked up 2x2mm evergreen styrene strips as suggested, and started dressing up the innards of the pocket vent.
I put strips of aluminium tape around the edges of these small strips to make them look right..
Every strip was glued in place one at the time with CA glue. This aluminium tape is great, but it does give sharp edges. I managed to cut myself working with this again…
This is the back with all the ribs in place..
And from another angle
Once this was done, It was a simple task to cut one back piece out of 1m styrene
After painting it with a decent colour that is quite close to R2 blue, this is what it looks like
… and with the panel mounted…
For a final test on the skin..
Seems the curve is a little too little, but I think it will work great anyway. this will be the rear Pocket vent in any case. It was my first attempt after all =)
One year…. wow!
Amazing!
Today marks the one year anniversary of me starting this build blog! So far: I’ve built an R2-D2 from scratch, mostly, apart from some parts like the dome, some aluminium parts and a few resin parts.
All structure and electronics has been hand made … by me. Who would have thought! I wouldn’t!
This is just a short post to mark the one year anniversary of my build, there are only a few things that remains: Building two side vents, one more pocket vent, and fix one Battery Box.
After that, it is all about the paint job!
Once the droid is finished, there will naturally be a lot of fixing, updating and modifying, such as installing a Life Form Scanner, a Periscope, and possibly a data interface arm and his weld tool (aka Ewok Zapper)…
Not a lot left until this can be considered complete…
But, today, the building will be in hiatus, mostly, since my dear fiancée is celebrating her 40th birthday, so no pics and not a long entry either!
For those of you following thus build, my sincere thanks, and for those of you who discover this a while down the line, thank you for reading!
All the best,
Micke