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Thanks to everyone and I hope that this Blog has been informative & helpful.

Nubian Royal Starship's Droid Bay - BUILD PROJECT - 1.0 [Didn't happen]

Allllllll the way back in March 2014........

Next project after completing R5

After thinking about what to build next I saw these and wanted to have a go at building.

These are the 'Droid Bays' found aboard the Royal Naboo Star ship.

There are toy versions, which I have used as a base for creating it.

Here's some more pic's from inside the ship.

And here are the CAD drawings I started drawing up in May 2013

This is not going to be a two minute job and may not even get off the ground as the internal framework also has to eb worked out. Plus it has to be light and be able to be disassembled.

This idea never came to fruition, and with the advent of 3D printing, it still could be a viable idea to make, but others are built these since, so am just posting this up from my draft post.

New Stickers - R5-D4 for 2026...... pt2

Should have waited before posting up in pt1, but hay ho 😂. New stickers have arrived….

These will go on my Etsy shop in the New Year.

Droid Builders UK - Christmas Party

😀 Not quite a 'party' but our annual club members get together.

This year we were at a new location, Gloucester.

Mike was kind enough to give me a lift up in his van, along with WED-15. He had a few of his droids and a WIP droid he's been working on last few months.

The luck-dip found a few winners.

Congrats to Ian, .......Doug wasn't very happy 😂😂😂

Droid line-up.

B2EMO & R2-KT

Here are the winners of the quiz also arranged by John & Andrew.

It was great catching up with everyone, it's great to be able to chat about the droids, questions answered etc that aren't always obvious when online and not with the problem in front of you lol. We also raised a bit for our chosen charity for 2025.

💥💥💥 Big THANKS goes to John and Andy for organising today! 💥💥💥

A bonus note......

Here's a short of Treadwell driving on his newly fitted tracks.

To watch the days event, click here for the Clubs YouTube channel.

This like will take you to the same video over on my YouTube channel.

New Stickers - R5-D4 for 2026......pt1

Had a question asked if these were still available.....?

I discontinued selling these, along with the matching patch a few years back, as demand wasn't there and the patches had almost sold out.

I've had other stickers made up for recent events as specials, made smaller these were more for the kids.

I've had a little tinker with the R5 sticker [patch] design and have ordered some of these updated versions. They should be here before Christmas, so I'll see about putting these up on my Etsy page again from January 2026.....

https://r5-d4astromechdroid.blogspot.com/2018/09/jamesr5astromech-etsy-shop.html