One part at a time.

More building done ..

So, after cutting a lot of styrene, I found an old tube of polystyrene cement among my old model colors. Unopened. That cannot be, I decided, so that had t

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

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

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

A cheap, working solution for lights in the Holoprojectors...

After reading another builders blog, I got inspired to work on the light in my own holo projectors. I have these, really nice hp's from BobC: These are CNC

Gripper arm blueprint.. ?

Since receiving my HUGE book of Star Wars Blueprints, I decided to take some measurements from some of the tools inside and convert them into digital bluep

Some pics of the parts assembled so far..

The collection of parts has started!

So, the past weeks I've been traveling in the US and performing. Inbetween shows, I managed to get some time and look around for parts, and as luck had it,

The saga begins...

So, one can't really build a full scale astromech droid without the help of people who has done this before. I started by joining the r2builders group on y

So now it's finally time...

For quite a while I've had this crazy notion. I'm going to build a replica of R2-D2. Full scale. Just think about that for a while, let the gravity sink in