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

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
Read entry ↗So, even though my droid is starting to look pretty finished when it comes to construction, there is definitely a number of things that still needs to be f
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So, after fixing my first horseshoe, I've almost finished my second horseshoe. Same procedure as the first one, I decided it was time to fix the bad should
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I had things I wasn't happy with in the horseshoes. The ribs inside the inner circle were not eve, due to some issues w
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Long time no update! That doesn't mean that I've been lazy though. Granted, I did have a vacation, and enjoyed it and have been relaxing, but building is b
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