Foot Shell done, and droid mounted!
Hey! =) I sanded off my second foot shell today, and cut holes for the motor and drilled holes for the cables and nuts. Second battery box has half the ski
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Second foot shell..
One of the first things I did in my R2 build was one of the foot shells. It was with that I learned how to work with styrene, and also what not to do. That
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R2-Fake2
Since I'm taking R2 to a Sci Fi convention in 2 weeks, and I won't be able to receive the utility arms, or paint the droid before then, I started just test
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Boxing Day!
After more bloodshed, I've continued my work on the battery boxes. Firstly, I skinned the first one: It took a little while, as I had to do it in stages. O
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Battery POWER!
Since I'm suffering from inflamed thumb-muscles (no, not from spending too much time in front of my PS3, but rather from over-exhausting my hands at the gy
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Electronic Bloodshed!
Had a busy day today, and didn't really get much done, droidwise. I did go over my old electronics board, and removed the C6C controller and added the AR62
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Slicing up the head!
After several attempts at growing my dome (actually I think I managed slightly), and getting my inner dome to fit properly, I decided to go the easy route
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New arrivals!
Today, I got a surprising call on the door. The postman arrived with a package, and it is rare that they do deliver these days, but I was lucky! Arriving o
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Dome Wrestling and sanding and bonding and priming...
So, Even though my build has been a bit slow this week, I haven't really constructed anything else but the horseshoes.. :eek: I have been wrestling with my
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Scratch building ankle cylinders!
Down by his feet, R2, has a strange cylinder that sticks out. Actually on the middle foot he has two, but I have two of them from resin already, but I need
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More horseshoes and dome measuring.. and some booster covers!
After my horseshoes had spent a day or so setting properly, it was finally time to de-mummify them from the blue tape! Looks pretty ok, I must say. I need
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Horseshoes!
So, since I had to wait most of the day due to a guy coming to change my door (evidentially it was the slight wrong shade of blue so the company that owns
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