no need for a 3rd PSI test…

After talking with a few r2builders I decided to stick to the original colours. The PSI’s should be red/blue in front and yellow/green in back. There’s no point in making a great looking unofficial-artoo. Also I’m a pain when it comes to detail and it would just eat me up.

Now, like everyone else, its time for a little holiday break from artoo. But, it won’t be a total break. I have a bunch of electric components, resin parts, hobby machinery and tools coming in santa’s big red sack so there will be an unusual amount of drooling going on this holiday

yea…they have these things in Hawaii as well

the second PSI test…

I decided to try and make a housing for the front/rear PSI to see how it would look. I used a bunch of old pill bottles, you know the small plastic ones. It just so happens that they have the correct diameter (40mm). I just drilled a small hole in the cap for the wires, glued the circuit board to the inside of the cap and finally glued thin black cardboard around the outside.I did this not because I wanted to same money, I just thought those resin parts that you can buy online looked so familiar. Well it was and it actually worked, lol. I plan to sand away the text from the bottom but the picture and video shows how it turned out

R2’s front/rear PSIs’…

While trying to get up the courage to begin marking and cutting the domes I decide to test those PSI lights for both artoo’s. I found these PSI “wannabees” at a local novelty store for about 4 dollars each and thought they would work nicely. The lights are bright LEDs and each unit runs for hours on 3 AAA bateries. The colours aren’t totally correct but hey, I thought they would look cool enough anyway…. I hope

DOMES!!!!!!

Yes, finally they have arrived!!! Yippy, now I have something I can sink my teeth into. And the price was well within reason (by swedish standards) I’ll have to do some very careful measurements in the coming days because there is no place here for mistakes. The place I got these domes is in Stockholm sweden and the preliminary measurements are too close to be true more to come… all I can say is that those guys at Svepo AB (plastics) did a great job!