Rough Fit of Legs

Got the ankles (mostly) done as well as the legs and I could not wait any longer to attach them to the body frame. Had to do some hole enlargement to get the bolts onto the body, but it is a nice, snug fit. Now it's looking like a droid!

I hope to finish the outer part of the ankles and skin the legs this weekend. And if Fate is smiling on me, the skirt as well!

First Ankle … continues

Snuck in 30 minutes of R2 time tonight. Glued some more bits of the ankle and did a lot of sanding to smooth out the side. Funny how things go faster with fresh sandpaper! Don't mind the rough edges, that's just some of template peeling off. I still need it to round off the end of the ankle.

Welcome to Droid Central!

I am hoping to start building a full-size Astromech droid (like R2-D2 for those not familiar with the geeky vernacular). My goal is to use the Styrene plans from Astromech.net and the r2builders group on Yahoo. Those two sites have a wealth of information as well as links to other builder sites that have provided a lot of inspiration.

My goal to is build this droid on the cheap. Scratch build as much as possible and buy resin parts of the squirrely bits.

I printed out the full size blueprints on some old paper off of our wide format printer. I then mounted them onto scrap cardboard to do a dry run to get my head around the plans. I want to see where the tricky bits will be and where I can make some modifications to the plan to simplify the number of parts.

To quote Lando, “Here goes nothing!”