
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
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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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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Today was time to do some of the small bits I have postponed for some time. Really, some of it was really quick temporary fixes in order to get the droid l
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This may well be one of the biggest updates.... So, I did quite a few things and decided to take R2 on a quick test drive into the street.... Well... first
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After my initial trip to the Sci-Fi convention, I realized that my front casters were a bit small. It was very easy for my droid to get tangled up in small
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For a while I had this idea of making the bluetooth speakers I've got behind my center vents more accessible. I came up with this idea that I would make a
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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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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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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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