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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What what? THREE updates in one day? Oh my, really! I found a bag of carriage bolts on my desk when rummaging around, and completely forgot that I had to a
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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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So, since Sigge The Great ™ brought back an aluminium panel for the back of the R2 form Celebration VI, signed by Kenny Baker himself, it was time to get r
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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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I figured that I would treat myself to some proper R2 building attire! I spent two nights drawing the pattern on my trusty MacBook, before finally uploadin
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