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Holiday Weekend Update
I’ve had an incredible busy weekend working on R2. I’m getting close to re-assembling him with all the skins and parts bolted on and everything painted. If you’re browsing the gallery for new photos...
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Green Endor R2
Another long night of working on R2. Not sure what came over me today, could have been the paint fumes, but out of the blue I suddenly decided to do a green camo Endor R2 instead. Here’s the test coat...
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Finished Prepping Skirt
I’m almost done with prepping the aluminum skirt. With the olive paint and screws this pieces would looks more at home attached to the Nautilus or some Steampunk project don’t you think? I’d bolted on...
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Re-painting Skins
Another busy evening working on R2, but not a lot to show for it. Started off with prepping some stuff for painting tomorrow. Remember about a month ago I’d posted pictures of my skins all done. Well I...
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Re-painting Skins Part 2
I decided to get over how cold it’s been and just start re-painting the skins. Temperature in the garage was around 59 degrees by mid day and the recommended temperature on the Rustoleum Satin White is...
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Skirt Ribs – Tweaking
This is another post I should have written up last week and almost forgot. Better late than never I guess I still needed to adjust the ribs on the skirt a bit. When I received the kit the angles on the...
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Re-painting Skins Part 3
It’s been a slow Artoo week. In the last few days we’ve had big storms come through, loosing power for almost a day, 100mph winds and 8 inches of rain. There’s a break in the rain right now so I jumped...
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Skin and Skirt Fitting
I finally got around to fitting my newly painted skirt and skins to the frame. Overall I’m happy how they came out and can’t wait to get the panels fitted. For some strange reason there’s now a gap...
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