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To repaint or not to repaint. That is the question

This is just a short blog entry about the colour scheme of my droid.

I have painted my droid with Plasti-Kote Satin Super  Pearly White.

Not sure if this is the proper colour or not, and this is just to show the comparison between a normal, white, bleeched A4 paper compared to the definitive off-white colour of my droid.

So, here are three comparison shots for the colour, and I hope to get some nice feedback about weather it is right or not! =)

As you see, compared to the A4 white background, the horseshoe is definitely more yellow, more creamy, more off-white.

Another close-up…

The colour of my horseshoe looks more like the off-white colour of the bands that holds up my belt boxes on my Biker Scout!

Look at this comparison! For those of you who are familiar with this off-white belt, may get a better idea what we’re looking at!

So, what do you guys think? Re-paint the droid or what?

//Micke

By |2016-12-06T00:01:03+01:00October 22nd, 2012|R2-D2|Comments Off on To repaint or not to repaint. That is the question
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More Biker Scout

While waiting for some time to paint my R2 properly, I’m still doing a lot of wok on my biker scout!

Here’s a summary of what’s been done today!

For all my loose armour pieces, I’ve sewed on elastic bands according to the Lancer standards, and used self-adhesive velcro inside the pieces and sewed on velcro on one of the sides of the elastics. This should enable me to tighten the pieces up somewhat if I should need to.

I’ve also added velcro inside the pieces, and added velcro on the corresponding pieces on my jumpsuit, and sewed that on.

Let’s have a look!

The shoulder bells, complete with velcro for fastening on to the torso, and also 35mm elastic around the arm in place!

Biceps pieces, complete with elastic inside, and also velcro around the top edge to match the velcro sewn on to my under suit!

Arm pieces. The elastic is like the others, sewn on one end, and velcroed in on the other end. These also have long strips of white velcro going all along the bottom, that will attach to the under suit to not make them slip.

Knee pads, elastic bands in place, bot the big one that will go into the knee joint, and the top thinner one, that is required for Lancer approval, should I want to go for that some day.

I have also velcroed in place my cummerbund pockets, although I feel they maybe should be a little more spread apart. I’ll see to that later on! =)

All this velcro makes the suit a little harder to get in, but at least it makes the pieces stick where they should be! It is a little easier once they were sewn in properly, instead of just put in place with self-adhesive velcro…

Not in pictures: I’ve worked on the placement of the back hump, and once I find a proper screw, I will do a small “wedge” in styrene in order to help this sit more straight and not move about at all. Looking good so far.

Also, I’ve removed the rib stitching on my vest/undersuit that was visible in the shoulder area, and there’s only rib stitches on the arms of the vest now.

Next step is the scary bit: Cutting up the armour! Last thing needed to sew, is to shorten the cummerbund a few cm, and tightening the groin area elastic… not too much though! *ouch* !

By |2016-12-06T00:01:04+01:00October 21st, 2012|Biker Scout|Comments Off on More Biker Scout
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More Biker Scouting

So, today I’ve been working a little more on my biker scout, breaking two needles on the sewing machine, and putting it all together!

I still have to mount the Thermal Detonator, and the greeblies on the arms are not painted or mounted.

The chest piece and back piece are held together with tape, and the shoulder armour is just held in place by double stick tape! =)

So, a little more sewing to do, but this is just a costume check! =)

I did finalize my belt though, and after playing around with the torso, I have extended it since last, and I think it sits a little better now!

Enough talking, let’s get to the pics already! =)

I still need to shorten that cumberbund..

The biceps armor had slid down on this post… I need to tighten the straps and add a bit of velcro to my undersuit to keep them in place.

Same thing with the knee pads that had slid down a bit…

I think the belt and torso looks a lot better now.

The pockets have only been tucked inside the armor and has not been fastened at all in this picture, so they are off center..

Not sure if I look happy or scared in this pic..

Provided it all looks good, I will continue sewing the last pieces together and finalize the armor this weekend! =)

By |2016-12-06T00:01:05+01:00October 19th, 2012|R2-D2|Comments Off on More Biker Scouting
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