James' R5-D4

1st September 2020  Yep, upgrading the sledge....again lol. Well, due to circumstances, transportation of R5 may now have to be done in my s...

R5's new droid cover. It arrived a few months back, just not got round to posting up a picture of it. It's large enough to not ...

R5's transport sledge finally got the handle I needed to fit on it. I managed to get this all done last week before MCM Birmingham. Du...

After loading up R5 & sledge into the back of the car, I noted that if the piece of wood that the wheels are attached to was removed, th...

I didn't have time before holiday to finish off painting the sledge cut outs & since being home, I then had an urgent work commit...

Had time at the weekend to finish off cutting out more wood from the sledge. Time and thought has to go into where to and where not to cut...

This was something I had had planned since building the sledge to get its weight down. It was a strain to lift it by itself when I first mad...

The small caster wheels on the skid where not up to the job and became a pain whilst loading into rear of car. But they needed to be small t...

With the new dome lazy susan bearing soon to be permanently fitted in place, the sledge will also need an upgrade. In order for the lower...

The two 'fixed, in-line' wheels, where good, but made pushing in directions a bit difficult at times. So wanted to replace with tw...

After quite a few events, what I really want is for R5 to be ready to roll, straight out the back of the car, so to speak. T ravelling to l ...