James' R5-D4

The mast sections were masked off, primer'd and silver spray painted. This included silver spray painting the claw arm parts. I’d ordere...

Installation of the electronics. I had to print off a small housing for the original electronics panel that required to be re-positioned out...

  This is a similar design based on this image (below), taken from the Solo 'Official Guide' book. I thought this would be a good id...

Re-wire switches: The two switches that I had, just inside the opening of the dome, needed to be relocated to just clean up everything. Thes...

 Can’t believe it’s been two months since I fitted the upper utility arm socket screen! In my attempt to finish off unfinished parts, I got ...

 After two design attempts, third time was lucky lol. And got itself 3D printed off. I added a recess and opening for a single LED, in the d...

After the primer had dried, I applied a coat of matt black. I left this to dry as I masked off the next component that needed spraying.

Yesterday I masked off the silver ready to spray up with blue. It’s been a while since I’ve used this silver, and I wasn’t happy with how it...

Today I cleaned off the version 3 print and prepped if ready for painting. I did a test paint on the version 2 first, see below for pictures...

Monday I took the dome into work and sprayed a coat of clear over it. On the evening, once home & dried, I made a start on weathering ...