This blog is starting waaay later than it should have, so the timeline depicted by this blog is nowhere near acurate. Nevertheless, the few pictures I took in the few years of building so far will end up here along with all the new ones taken after this blog started.
The idea to build a full scale astromech droid came after I stumbled across the astromech.net website many moons ago. At the time I was without a decent project to keep me busy and this just appealed right from the start.
After months of reading and researching, it was decided that the droid of choice would be R2 D2. R2 D1 or a green equivalent were the original front runners, but an original R2 D2 and the character that comes with him won out in the end. Construction was to be aluminium where practicable with resin elsewhere. It would be remote controlled, motorised and able to switch between two and three legged modes. Sounds easy huh? Here I am 3 years later and still building.
Anyway, enough history. Let's get to the details and photos...
Here are the first pictures of the frame after it was first put together. I used the plans for one of JAGs earlier frames. 0.25" aluminium plate supported with round aluminium rod and held together with countersunk screws.
Here's the frame again, now with the shoulder mounting plates in place.
Using a leftover frame ring, I cut out pieces and used them as the horizontal parts in the Utility Arm Carrier. I still have to drill holes for the Utility Arm pins, but I'm holding off on that until I get the skins in place so that I can make sure the Arms will be positioned properly with the outer skin.
The idea to build a full scale astromech droid came after I stumbled across the astromech.net website many moons ago. At the time I was without a decent project to keep me busy and this just appealed right from the start.
After months of reading and researching, it was decided that the droid of choice would be R2 D2. R2 D1 or a green equivalent were the original front runners, but an original R2 D2 and the character that comes with him won out in the end. Construction was to be aluminium where practicable with resin elsewhere. It would be remote controlled, motorised and able to switch between two and three legged modes. Sounds easy huh? Here I am 3 years later and still building.
Anyway, enough history. Let's get to the details and photos...
Here are the first pictures of the frame after it was first put together. I used the plans for one of JAGs earlier frames. 0.25" aluminium plate supported with round aluminium rod and held together with countersunk screws.
Here's the frame again, now with the shoulder mounting plates in place.
Using a leftover frame ring, I cut out pieces and used them as the horizontal parts in the Utility Arm Carrier. I still have to drill holes for the Utility Arm pins, but I'm holding off on that until I get the skins in place so that I can make sure the Arms will be positioned properly with the outer skin.
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