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Today’s job.. cutting plastic and semi circles..

Today’s job: Cutting more styrene.

I’ve cut out 2 large sheets of square pieces. Plenty of work.

I’ve also managed to fix a circle cutter of my own for the arm sockets.

I took a spare piece of styrene, drilled a 3mm hole in it, and cut it off, to be 85 mm .. which, in case you haven’t noticed, is half the size of the arm socket hole.

I drilled a 3mm hole in the skin in the center point, and used a screwdriver as pivot point, since I didn’t have any 3mm screws lying about…

I used the edge of the piece around the pivot point as a template for cutting, and i moved the mounted scrap piece around the half circle at the same time as cutting.

This made a very nice and smooth round hole.

After cutting out a few of these, I used the cut-out pieces as templates for cutting the rest of the holes!

No more need to find a circle cutter that can cut that big holes! =)

Next step is to finish off the blueprints to my cnc guy, who will do all my curved pieces for me! =)

Sorry, no pictures today =)

//Micke

By |2012-03-19T09:21:29+01:00December 27th, 2011|R2-D2|Comments Off on Today’s job.. cutting plastic and semi circles..
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Skins completed, plus my fridge has been restrained…

So..

Another full day of working with the skins of my R2.

Now, all skins are cut out, apart from some details that I need a circle cutter to do.

I’ve even sanded parts of the lose pieces that I will keep, but there is a lot of sanding to do on the skins, but I think I’ll leave that until it is time to actually attach them. We’ll see!

Here’s a quick pic of where I’ve attached the outer skins, so you can get an idea of the forthcoming Astromech: 

I had a little more time on my hands as well, so I took out my old citadel paints and decided to paint, weather and mount a magnet inside my restraining bolt, kindly given to me by Sigge =)

I think it came out quite well!

Now, my fridge is restrained

Not too bad for a day’s work!

//Micke

By |2016-12-06T00:02:05+01:00December 26th, 2011|R2-D2|Comments Off on Skins completed, plus my fridge has been restrained…
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Started work on the skins!

So, since it is christmas, and I have a little time on my hands, I started working on my skins!

Originally, I had wanted someone to cut these with a laser CNC machine for me, but after shopping around, I realized this would be quite expensive.

Armed with my printer, a steel ruler and a break blade knife, I started on the skins myself, figured it couldn’t be TOO hard..

So, after printing out 10 papers, cutting them up and taping them together, I had a nice start.

Here, the prints are lying, casually thrown down on the 1m styrene sheet, soon to be the rear skin!

After carefully marking which cut-out part goes where, I went outside, sprayed the back of the paper with 3M spray on re-positionable glue.

Next step was basically starting cutting. This, being my first attempt to cut in Styrene, I actually started with the rear OUTER skin. I figured that if I messed up, I could always turn it into an inner skin piece.

I will definitely use the same approach when I am cutting the front skin tomorrow!

Anyway, cutting through styrene turned out to be way, way easier than I had hoped for. Cut down hard, fold, and snap out the parts.

Took me less than 30 minutes to actually cut out the pieces needed to be removed.

The removed pieces will be cut out as well, as I will keep only the outer part with a round inner corner. These will be cut out at a later point, however, as I will need a circle cutter in order to make these nice and smooth!

The rear skin with all the panels cut out. Note that the half-circles underneath R2’s shoulder are also not yet cut out. Again: Circle cutter! =)

So, this really marks the start of the R2 build, and I really can’t wait!

The spray mount really made this EASY! Will need to clean off the skins with a bit of alcohol or something after removing the paper.

Hey… it’s christmas! R2 deserves to be a bit drunk as well! =)

//Micke

By |2016-12-06T00:02:05+01:00December 25th, 2011|R2-D2|Comments Off on Started work on the skins!
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