Magazine article about building my R5-D4 (......back in 2018)

Back at the end of March 2018, a fellow builder, Nik H, who happens to work at a magazine publishing company, asked if I'd be interested in writing a piece for his editor. He's proposed the idea to her and she was very interested in it.

Good Woodworking magazine

lol

The Woodworker magazine

So I started writing how I went about building R5-D4 out of wood. Trying to condense three years plus work & to simplify it down to 500 words was a definite challenge lol. I also sent in photo's of the build.

.... unfortunately tho, this didn't get published.

October 2024:

I do still have the transcript, so I may post it up one day lol.

** South West Droid Builders MOT Day ** [UPDATE]

** MOT Testing Day **

Droid MOT Day, news update:

The Northern event date has changed to August 1st.

For club members wanting to attend either

North or South events, please check out the

www.droidbuilders.uk

page for the portal link  to register.

The Bristol event is STILL,

Sunday 4th July 2021

This event is open to all R2D2 Builders Club members,

with or without Droids,

though of course the purposes is for MOT'ing them.

Southern event:

10 members attending

2 members maybe attending

6 requested MOT's.

Northern event:

19 members attending

6 members maybe attending

5 requested MOT's

#mot #astromechdroids #ukR2D2buildersclub #droidbuildersuk #bristol #R2D2 #R5D4

** South West Droid Builders MOT Day **

 ** MOT Testing Day **

Droid MOT Day South, news update: Mike has secured an open venue  near his place of work to host this event. It was required as the numbers attending had increased. If you are up North, there is also a Northern event happening on the same day, co-incidence, but a good one as if you require an MOT, but Bristol is a little to far, you can attend this one in stead.

Bristol is the place, Sunday 4th July 2021

This event is open to all R2D2 Builders Club members, with or without Droids, though of course the purposes is for MOT'ing them.

Southern event: 9 members attending at present with 2 maybe's.

Northern event: 11 members attending at present with 5 maybe's

For club members wanting to attend either North or South,

please check out the www.droidbuilders.uk page to sign in via the portal link to register.

#mot #drivingtest #astromechdroids #droidbuildersuk #bristol #R2D2 #R5D4

Force Friday 3 - The Rise of Skywalker - Droid Factory set

So last week was.......

Myself and Paul (and the droids) had planned on attending our local Disney Store, but due to a change of plans, this didn't happen.

Being a droid fan, I was excited to see the new Droid Factory 4 figure set, released (in the USA) in connection with the new film 'The Rise of Skywalker'.

A fellow club member is at Disney and sent these great pictures of the new box set. Thanks to Nik H. D-0 has already been seen, but the other three are 'new' R5-2JE, R6-LE5 & R2-SHP.

And here's the rear of the box.

The rear pictures feature the actual toy figures, rather than in the past, they have shown pictures of the actual droids.

Another group member, let me know that there's a UK Facebook group organising a list to purchase these for UK people, so I should be able to get hold of these in a few weeks.

Event - Invasion Colchester 2019 - Club droids attended

Saturday 7th September

Members of the club joined lots of other groups to attended 'Invasion Colchester'.
Check out their website for more info....

Picture below is from R2-CT Facebook page.
His droid converted with an R4 type dome.

Droid lineup:

R4-CT (yellow R4, left), R2-FETT, U9-C4 ( yellow R5) next to R2-ST (purple)

~~~

The event raises money for these two charities:

www.sthelena.org.uk

-

www.colchesteripswichcharity.org.uk/cancercentrecampaign

Flashback to LegoLand 2018

This event came up on my time line the other day

on James R5-D4 Facebook page,

and with so many good memories of it,

I thought I'd re-share my event report of the weekend.

It was my second time attending, but this one was my first for staying over for two of the three weekend days. The weather was amazing, sunny & hot. This was definatly up there with the best events (friends) I've experianced.

click this link below:

LegoLand Windsor Event report 2018

Bristol Comic Con & Gaming Festival - March 30th 2019 **UPDATE* No2*

......received confirmation that another droid will be joining us.....

Nik H will be attending with his U9-C4

......SEE UPDATE No3......

www.mooseeventsuk.com

MCM Birmingham Comic con - March 17th - 18th 2018

So this weekend members of the UK R2-D2 Builders Club,

will be attending.....

MCM Birmingham Comic con - March 17th - 18th 2018

Well be joining up with the UK Garrison 501st, along with The Rebel Legion

on STAND 6100

next to the Comic Village

Some droids will be there for both days, others, like myself only for one of the two days.

I'll be attending with R5-D4 & bringing along my R4 dome on the Sunday.

There is so far about 13 dorid's attanding over the weekend!

Here's some from the last time I attended way back in 2015

Don't forget if you have your picture taken, and post on social, Instagram, to add at least one of these hashtags. And share your experience with others, big thanks

#ukr2d2buildersclub

#astromech

#astromechdroid

#R2D2

#R5D4 ......etc