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Center ankle – COMPLETE

So .. I fulfilled my goal of the day.

The center ankle is now COMPLETE !

Naturally, it needs painting, but I’m saving the paint job for spring, when it is actually good enough weather to be outside for longer periods of day!

The ankle has been cut out, assembled, glued together, sanded, glued some more, used putty everywhere to make the seams nice and smooth, sanded some more and now finally, they are DONE!

It seems a droid part is never 100% finished.. I took some spare bits of styrene and reinforced my center foot inside, to make it more sturdy. Once the glue has hardened properly, I should be able to stand on the foot shell!

I’ve also finished gluing together the left foot. Details on the foot is now complete, and once the glue has hardened (no pics on at the moment) I’ll subdue it with putty and sand it down once more, to make complete!

I’ve also gotten the tracking number from Daren Muren about my lovely dome, and it seems it has made it into the country now at least! Delivery should be tomorrow or Thursday. In the nick of time!

For now, I’ll just leave you with these images of my center foot and center ankle put together and posing for the first time. Kinda looks like it’s hovering, to be honest.

But … I’ll save the hovering bit for my next project 😉

By |2016-12-06T00:01:59+01:00January 17th, 2012|R2-D2|Comments Off on Center ankle – COMPLETE

Fine detail day..

So, no pics today, not that interesting anyway … yet =)

Today has been about sanding… and sanding … and sanding.

I can happily say that my center leg construction is now COMPLETE.

I’ve also been working on the center ankle, skinning it, and glued together the beefy ankle parts and sanded them so they are aaaaaalmost ready for assembly.

The idea is to have the center ankle construction COMPLETE tomorrow!

If I have the time, I might also get my left outer foot construction COMPLETE!

I really need to find satin white here in Sweden so I can start painting these things…

Doing fine details takes time! .. but I like the results!
Pictures will be done tomorrow when my center ankle and foot construction is all ready! =)

By |2012-03-19T09:43:59+01:00January 16th, 2012|R2-D2|Comments Off on Fine detail day..

Oh, yeah… Almost forgot:

I also sanded the sides of all the frame and skirt support pieces, to make sure they edges tht are going to be glued are square, an that they are all the same size!

Something I learned after making the legs… Wish I had sanded all the little pieces before gluing them together… But they workedout fine anyway!

I had to sand them in place instead…

By |2012-03-19T09:39:08+01:00January 15th, 2012|R2-D2|Comments Off on Oh, yeah… Almost forgot:
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