This is the consolidated blog page. Individual categories may also display in
other areas of the website, such as the yearly Halloween pages and the droid
project pages. This is one place to see all of the updates.
Made some pretty good progress at our droid building day at Andy's this past weekend. Over the last few months, I've worked here and there on the legs and feet, which I have assembled and started painting. They need a lot of work still, but some I can put off and just get it thrown together for now. The new skins need a good attachment method, but they are nearly visually complete. I have some rewiring to do, more detail pieces to add, etc... but finally, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, and it's not an on-coming Star Destroyer.
Finally making some progress. Skeleton has the base coat and webbing, but still needs final painting and eyes. I'll probably still be working on him after most of the rest of the display is up.
October is almost over, and I have no progress pictures. Oh well. I'm still working on getting that new skeleton ready, but I just haven't completed anything else.
I'll have my display up this week, just not much new this year.
Well crap, September is soon to draw to a close, and I have yet to update ONCE here on my Halloween updates this year! I'm getting a stupid-late start on Halloween this year, in that I've bought my new skeleton but haven't worked on it, and haven't planned a single other thing yet.
My goal is always to add one new thing each year, and over the last few years I've done very well by adding TWO. I don't know if that's going to happen this time or not.
My new skeleton is going to be a duplicate of last year's, although I want the color to come out better as more of a light grey, instead of the bright white I used last time.
Last year's coffin is in severe need of repair, as it was falling apart under its own weight while on display last time. It's crap. I had gotten it to stand in until I had the time to build a proper toe-pincher, so I'm not sure if I'll just get off my butt and make one or try to fix this one up a bit. We'll see.
In the meantime, fear not! I'm not giving up... but with this season's thumb injury and other projects that have kept me busy, I just haven't had time for this OR the droid for the last couple months!
Wow, did I develop a life outside these hobbies somewhere along the way? :)
Slow but steady progress continues. This week I'm getting the foot shells structurally complete. These are the A&A plastic feet, since I decided to not use the steel JAG feet. I have yet to do anything about battery-boxes for the feet, or the hoses. Still need ankle wedges+cylinders, half-moons, etc.
Back-filled a lot of the vacations and trips on the vacations page. After the last overhaul of the photo gallery system, this page was somewhat obsoleted, and I forgot to keep updating it! :)
The skins are off for painting. I'll be this way for a while, since I can now start installing detail pieces that need to sit inside or behind the skins.
I have the skins temporarily attached, but without the panels glued back together and not
painted. I also have the booster covers and horseshoes assembled, but they too need a lot
of finishing and painting.
I've also re-worked the electronics a bit. I started having a problem with the droid
going haywire if it had been sitting out in the car and then started up while still
quite cold.
New consolidated Blog page for all
of my on-going projects and news. I've tried to back-fill it a bit with
the Droid and Halloween updates from the last few years.
R2's first steps!! I brought my camera along for droid-building night, and
started recording within moments of getting him on the floor on his own
wheels.
Making an R2 and have your own CFsound III?
Download my CF3 sound files,
and just unzip it into an empty CF card, and it's ready to go with a 12-channel remote.
