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red's Droids: October 2011
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This is my blog about building Astromech droids. Saturday, October 8, 2011. Worked on my antenna today. Today I tried to extend the range of the Vex antenna. Its really short like 12 inches long and means when I use the Vex transmitter I have to be atleast 12 feet away. Here is how I had it wired up. The vex is the yellow box with the short antenna I had wrapped around the frame. Posted by red UFO. Wednesday, October 5, 2011. Painting My Tinted Dome. This black trash can is turned out pretty cool! I need...
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red's Droids: December 2011
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This is my blog about building Astromech droids. Monday, December 26, 2011. Despite the lack of updates on here lately. I'm still working on droids, slow but sure. Here is a progress update. I have been collecting parts for to finish the domes. I recently got these HPs and radar eye in clear resin from Cal. I can't say enough about how awesome these parts are! Here is each HP part side by side for comparison. The old school HP is a little higher then the parts currently being run on and off. Victor's R2D...
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red's Droids: Working on R2-Q5's dome
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This is my blog about building Astromech droids. Thursday, May 31, 2012. Working on R2-Q5's dome. Here is my construction of the R2-Q5 dome in styrene. What seems like an easy project has turned into quite a challenge, read on. The inner and outer domes didn't quite fit so I had to cut the inner dome in half. I used Weld On 3 first to put the spider looking ring on. Glued the bottom but it didn't hold. What worpage might look like! This is what the other side looks like. After 1 year as a parts colle...
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red's Droids: November 2011
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This is my blog about building Astromech droids. Sunday, November 6, 2011. Tucson Comic Con 2011. David and I went do to the Tucson Comic Con and brought a couple of droids with us. Tom and Tom jr. in costumes and R5-D4 with the first ever built Clone Wars droid built by David. I'm done doing events until I get this transmitter stuff fixed. If you look closely in this photo there is a misty shooting out of the R2 droid. It always surprises kids when the fire extinquisher is activated. Posted by red UFO.
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red's Droids: June 2011
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This is my blog about building Astromech droids. Sunday, June 26, 2011. CPU Armed Painted and Misc stuff. I haven't updated here in a while but I've been busy with some parts and waiting for things in the mail. I'm pretty much done painting the CPU arm and I have the servo attached! Painting the arm was much easier than I thought. Here's some of the basics so you can get an idea on how to paint yours. Power is restored back to the droid via the power board. I also installed a new Pittman motor so the...
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red's Droids: May 2011
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This is my blog about building Astromech droids. Monday, May 30, 2011. Phoenix Comicon Day 4 (Sunday). Only half the amount of people on Sunday than we had on Saturday. But there was still a full day of ahead of us. R2 took a trip over to the AZ Ghost Busters for a photo op. If somebody asks for photos we never turn them down. Posted by red UFO. Phoenix Comicon Day 3 (Saturday). Yesterday she was working for the Empire and today she's loading the Death Star plans into R2? I got a look into Rob's R4-G9 dr...
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red's Droids: R2-Q5 Center Foot Build
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This is my blog about building Astromech droids. Thursday, April 30, 2015. R2-Q5 Center Foot Build. I can't believe its been about 3 years since I did lots of updates. But here's more work I've been doing. This center foot took me about 1 month to do from start (have all the parts) to painted and completed. It don't really take that long to assemble this foot. But it was 4 years ago that I constructed my other foot. Now with center foot and ankle attached I bolted on the U channel with the 4 stand offs a...
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red's Droids: My Cylon Helmet
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This is my blog about building Astromech droids. Thursday, April 30, 2015. I haven't done an update in a while but I have been working on various projects so here is an update. I ordered a Clyon Helmet from Starbuck. Here is what came in the kit. Kit came with 2 side of the helmet, mouth grill, some black resin parts for the eye area. This eye scanner I found on ebay from a guy out of Canada. It was around $50 bucks and a rapid solution to get the eye up and running. After more sanding I applyed some Gla...
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red's Droids: April 2011
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This is my blog about building Astromech droids. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Today I got my tinted dome in the mail I'm experimenting for a droid I call R2-AZ. Its an 18 inch dome that's a couple of inches shorter than a 300 MM dome. So its time for a test fit. I have 3 blacklights inside it so I can later paint or light up some of them for the 'brains' or PSI lights. My black droid will have several different domes that I can swap out to make the droid change day to day. Posted by red UFO. Its just like ...
