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

From the workbench

204 entries

More Biker Scouting

So, today I've been working a little more on my biker scout, breaking two needles on the sewing machine, and putting it all together! I still have to mount

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Biker Scout progress..

While my R2 is properly letting the paint dry, and it IS not very fun watching it, I decided to work a bit on my Biker Scout! There's a big Sci-Fi exhibiti

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A little bit of paint...

Over the weekend, in addition to flying all over the country and performing, I've been busy trying to get as much of my droid painted as possible! I've lea

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Mounting the Ankle... stuff

So, after the ankle wedge was done, it was a simple task to just slap some paint on to it. I've been toying around with ideas on how to mount this, as I re

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Building an ankle wedge

Something I've realized over the past year where I've been building my R2, is that I really love scratch building things from styrene. Styrene is very forg

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Second side vent

First off: Woohoo! I can has superglue! The first side vent is therefor complete! After trying out the "can opener" method on parts of the first vent, I de

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Enlarged build photograph