From the workbench

204 entries

2012-10-05

Opening the vent

Not a lot done today. Yesterday was a full day with a lot of work and a late night gig. Today was spent mostly to prepare for my fiancée who's turning 40 t

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2012-10-03

So it has finally come to this...

First off, a quick picture of the results from last night: These doors needs a little more sanding and a good priming, but basic construction is all done!

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2012-10-02

He's making a list and checking it twice..

Well.. checking it all the time, it seems. I am of course talking about my R2-2DO list as I call it. The list. The list of things that needs to be fixed fo

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2012-10-01

Becoming a bikerscout?

Today, a 9 month wait was at its end! A slightly beat up package arrived at my door step. 9 months in the making, 7 days to travel across the US and to Swe

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2012-09-30

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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2012-09-29

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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2012-09-25

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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2012-09-23

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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2012-09-22

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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2012-09-20

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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2012-09-17

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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2012-09-17

Things that go Bump in the night..

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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