BUILDING R2-D2●

MICKE ASKERNÄS / THE BUILD JOURNAL

One part at a time.

Droids, props & the work that brings them to life.

204 entries · 2011—2026

September 2012

14 entries

Eradicating Irregularities

More and more small things are crossed off my list.. and many more things that I find along the way that never was on the list to begin with, but should pr

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the small things

As I'm approaching a place where all this will culminate in painting the droid, I've been tweaking a few things here and there I have not been happy with.

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Re:Wired

In this process of doing things that is not really taking the build forward, but rather redoing things I wasn't too happy with, I've spent the past two day

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Many more small fixes...

I can really tell that the day when I have nothing else to do but to get the body painted is closing in, and fast! Today, I spent first sanding off the ski

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Looking up R2's skirt...

After a couple of days with the flu, and still done 2 gigs and a casting session (drawback of running your own company as a performer), I was finally start

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Small fixes

I've been battling a bad flue for the past couple of days, so needless to say, the droid has not been the first of my priorities! However, I've managed to

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Evening Post

Fourth blog entry in one day! I must be nuts! (well... I *am* building an R2-D2..) All of them are dealing with different aspects and different parts of th

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Monday morning lobotomy

Fueled by colder weather and the signed Kenny Baker panel in my droid, I decided it was lobotomy time! This is yet another of those posts where the build h

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Hollywood Memories...

When I spent a week in Hollywood, I just had to go to Grauman's Chinese Theatre and see the footprints of the "real" R2-D2 ... So ... the droid used for th

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