A new approach…

Well, because of the unexpected success at ComicCon a week ago. And because of suggestions from friends I’m going to try a different approach to how I share my building processes. I’m going to start producing a Video blog in the coming weeks. It may just be twice a month for starters where I talk about and show how I resolved some of the issues that have come up during my projects. My main focus will be the K2 project in teh beginning as I’ve received so many questions regarding him. I need to prepare a few things to make this possible, but its in the works. The video blog is called “Reality 2 Robots”and will be on YouTube..this is the address:

http://www.youtube.com/c/Reality2Robots

 

My R2 doing a photo shoot

This summer I was asked if I could have my R2 involved in a photo shoot. It was a fun outing and here are a few pictures from that. The model is the lovely Carolina Lundgren. and photographer is Micke Hellström

Weathering R2

This year marks the 10 year since I started building my very first R2. I have always keep him looking like he just rolled off the factory line, white and very clean. As I mentioned in an earlier post I just gave him a whole new paint job/makeover. After doing the Finland event I felt it was time to give him the “real”, been there and back look. The term is called weathering. I’ve put it off for the longest time because it felt wrong in some way. But now I’ve changed my mine. He now looks as if he’s telling a story. I stuck with episode 4 look “A New Hope”. He’s been across Tatooine with the sand, dirt, mud and oil look that follows. Weathering is a very hard thing to master but because I’ve weathered my Wall-e and BB-8 in the past I felt I was up for this challenge. Here’s the result!

Next mini project…

3 years ago I made the frame for a Star Wars mouse droid. You see it regularly running about on the Death Star and even in a scene in the force awakens as well as Rogue One. Now that I have 3d printing working pretty well I decided to complete the build. I 3D printed all the minor parts like the top details and side paneling. It took only 3 days to complete and I even made a 3d printed gearbox for the fun of it. I have a motor controller on order and will install the sound box shortly. Here are the results so far.