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Ahh, the labor of love that is 'Building an R2-D2.' I bought him as a partially-assembled unit from another builder that decided to stop working on him, and I'm carrying on the tradition. He was received on June 11th, 2007. A lot of the dome work was already done, I only removed all the panels, stripped and painted them a different blue and re-did the holo-projectors. Everything else I'm pretty much re-doing (but at least I have most of the parts already...) This page will be a WIP page (and a history of his construction page) once I get it all put together... The first image will always be a 'current' image though: Here's a new update, this is him as of June 2nd, 2008. I've had him
for a year now, and after only occasionally working on him during
random weekends this is where he is. Most of the little detail pieces
are now on, and almost all of the painting is finished. Several of
the aluminum-looking parts on his legs and body are actually machined
aluminum now (they were just going to be painted resin, but the actuall
aluminum looks a lot better...). I only have 14 more things to put
on him and he will be cosmetically complete! But, I'm going to move
on to electronics now and get him moving around finally... Then I'll
go back to detail pieces. The next update should feature some working
lights and hopefully movement! And hopefully that'll happen in the
next few weeks... Back side complete with interior access door. This will eventually
be full of wires, batteries and circuit boards... This is R2 as of Sept 1st, 2007. Finally got the legs on him and
was actually able to push him around (and he seems pretty stable...) |
