Event: Stars of Time @ Weston-Super-Mare

This coming Saturday, November 30th......

Link here:

https://www.starsoftime.co.uk/weston-s-mare-winter

Just some of the droids [from our last attendance] will be joining us this Saturday.

Droids at Mshed : Bristol 2024 - 1 WEEK TO GO!!!

 

Just 1 week left till #Bristol see’s the Droids arrive at the Mshed museum again, 2024!

YouTube channel: link

Please like and share for others to see. The event is a free one so don’t miss out on seeing your favourite droids, built by fans, of film and TV!!

Event: May the 4th be with you! Saturday @ LEGO store Bristol 2024

The invitation to attend LEGO stores promoting May 4th new Star Wars LEGO releases, was offered to most costume and droid groups.

R2 was only droid required so I assisted Mike with his, helping him take a break etc without having to worry about putting R2 away etc.

I drove down to his place first and chatted about the day ahead and also the upcoming Mshed event, what needed doing etc.

More on that soon.

His R2 was already loaded up so a short drive to the car parking, and then a short walk over to the LEGO store, in Cabot Circus.

The looks we got 😂😂😂

Us in the lift 😂

We arrived for 11am and the que was long to enter the store still.

The passing shoppers were excited to see R2, some had a shock when me moved, thinking he was just a static display 😂👍🏽

The store was happy with the day, and it was noted that several people had not intended to come in but had done on seeing R2.

We finished up at 4pm after a very busy, warm sunny day!

Hope you all had a great day #Bristol #LEGO

R2-D2 Teeces dome LED’s

September 2023

Mike wanted to reinstall his Teeces LED’s in his R2 dome again. This was after his last set of logic’s from DP, got ripped out when wires dropped and got caught in the dome gear.

So I uninstalled the DP set and made a start on cleaning things up. I made up some cardboard templates for the holes, marked the position and drilled into the resin DJ Design components using a manual hand drill and a 3.5mm drill bit. I cut down some 20mm long M3 threads and screwed on a nut to depth required. I then fitted them through the cardboard template into the pre filled holes with Araldite epoxy glue. I then fitted the screens to help with alignment.

The three Holoprojectors required new location holders, so they were sent to the printer.

I also needed to print two new PSI board holders, after a slight design modification for a better fit.

Whilst these were printing, i made a start on connecting up the cables and wiring the switches back in.

Cables and switches done. Second switch is now for controlling the holoprojectors independently.

Just waiting on them being delivered.

Another happy customer 🙂👍🏽

Bristol M-Shed Star Wars Sunday 2nd July 2023

 Back again this summer with the droids you’re looking for!

Bristol’s M-Shed ,

down on the harbour side in the centre of town,

we’ll be displaying our replica droids from Star Wars as well as other Sci-Fi films & TV shows.

We’ll also be joined by members of the Milton Keynes Garrison.

The event is free entry so don’t miss out!!

We will be collecting for our chosen club charity which is

Make a Wish

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For visitors to Bristol,

the centre now has a Clean Air Zone.

Please use this government website to check if a charge apply's to your vehicle

Bristol Clean Air Zone vehicle checker

link: https://www.gov.uk/clean-air-zones

‘M’shed via Google Maps 

Event Report: Southmead Hospital Charity

 Saturday 29th April 2023

Myself, Mike and Mark had been invited to attended a Charity fundraising day by local friends from Clevedon.

This is the second one we’ve attended helping to raise funds for Southmead Hospital.

Check out their Facebook page.

We were located next to the toy area, Mike couldn’t help himself and borrowed a Grogu toy 😂😂😂

Mike took his R2 off round the floor area, and stopped by the amazing face painting and balloon sculpture. 
There were lots of happy parents and kids 😂. Lots of people asked questions about the droids and building them, and then Mike was telling them to ask me for my autograph ✍️ 😂😂😂

Here are some of the days pictures:

And some more:

Father and son 😂

There were quite a few visitors who were not from Bristol , as became apparent when telling them about our upcoming event at the M-Shed Museum.

Looking forward to this, as well as Swindon’s Stars of Time event next month:

Disclaimer: my R5 is NOT the one used in the Mandalorian series 👍🏽

Celebration Europe 2023 starts here: Day T-1

So last night I picked up the hire van and its big lol. Well it’s not just for me but also Mike’s droids as well as a few other things/props etc.

Thursday 6th April: T-1

Loaded up all my things into the van and then headed down into town to pick up Mike and all his droids etc.

Loading everything in, good job I’m the Tetris king 😂👍🏽. Once complete, it was time for the drive up to London.

I’ll post part 2 of T-1 (T minus 1 day) Thursday evening (hopefully lol)

Droid Builders South West - coming this July

 

Stay tuned for more updates……

#bristol #ukr2d2builders #droidbuildersuk #r2d2 #r5d4 #badmotivator #freeevent #localevents

#southwestdroidbuilders #happydays #2023

Event Report: Droid Builders UK Christmas meet 2022

The day came (Saturday) and Mike picked me up at 7:30am, for the drive up London way.

This was the first time I hadn’t taken R5, as most people have seen him and wood isn’t what people are into these days 😢, so decided to just take up latest projects. WED-15 build and the new top secret project build 🤫🤫🤫.

YouTube video of the day

can be viewed here.

Unfortunately there were a few unable to attend due to the weather and ill health. Best wishes to them for a speedy recovery.

The usual suspects did make it, Lee, Sam, Giles lol. The eBay sales added to the raffle on the day to raise funds for our good charity cause.

Doug & Mark gave me a hand in helping to sort out a few problems with a droid. All hands to help, all minds figuring out problem solving.

We had droid racing, check out the video, droid builds, maintenance, seeing new work done since last time. We weren’t able to have an after event meal as everywhere was booked, so we had McD’s for lunch 😂👍🏽

Event Report: Southmead Hospital Charity @ John Lewis

This one is down to Mike Berry….

A few weeks ago he had a customer pop in and noticed Mike’s droids. They got chatting about a, unknown at this time, mutual friend, Paul W of TRamp designs.

www.trooperamp.co.uk

There was an upcoming charity event at his store, John Lewis' in the Mall, Cribbs Causeway. Details were exchanged and Paul was contacted and he invited us to join them.

It was a VERY cold early morning, Mike picked me up in his van and we made the short trip up the road to Cribbs.  We were met and escorted to where we had been allocated a large area, near the toy section on the lower floor. A banner had been kindly supplied by Southmead Charity so that people knew why we were there lol. Three collection buckets saw a lot of donations deposited. Lot's of photos were taken and plenty of questions asked about the droids and how to make them....so we could see a few more builders in the coming weeks/months lol.

There were other things going on, a violinist, choir, guide dogs, face painting & balloon creations.

Jamie was passing by and popped in to say hi 👋🏼 

Was good to see him & chat. He was also kind enough to babysit the droids when we went to get food.

As a thank you we were presented with our very special tins

We finished up around 4pm and were kindly escorted back to the loading area to load ip Mike’s van. Another successful event.

Upcoming event: Stars of Time - November 27th 2022

 

Weston-Super-Mare

this coming Sunday!

looking forward to attending again,

with fellow Droid Builder(s).

Stars of Time

Full details are on their website (click)

or

www.starsoftime.co.uk

Upcoming Event: Stars of Time @ Weston-Super-Mare

Stars of Time

return’s to Weston-Super-Mare!

The SOUTHWEST DROID BUILDERS

(representing Droid Builders UK),

will be attending so come along

and see R2-D2 and friends.

Why not make a weekend of it,

check out the official website,

clicking on the picture link below.

Link: https://www.visit-westonsupermare.com/

Link to more event details:

https://www.visit-westonsupermare.com/whats-on/stars-of-time-film-and-comic-con-p3119893

Mike’s been building Droids again

Mike’s been busy these last few weeks (September 2022) building a static two legged Astromech for an upcoming display.

He re-purposed one of his R2 domes for this project, used foot shells he hadn’t used, then made up a frame, legs, battery boxes out of wood. 3D printed details and then assembled everything together.

Once painted it was time to REALLY weather him. He asked me if I could make some lights up, nothing perfect, just something to blink as this droid needs ‘fixing’.

So I 3D printed off some of my own FLD (holed) units and got to soldering up some LED’s.

Not bad soldering

First set I only added two flashing LED’s as was all I had to hand. Ordered some more and these will go into this and the second set.

Mike asked me to make up another motor shaft adaptor for his dome motor cog. This I machined out of Brass.