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

styrene

56 entries

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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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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Fixing the Horseshoes!

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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Small changes...

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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More tiny detail work....

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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Test driving in the street

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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Center vent speaker holder

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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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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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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