James' R5-D4

 I know, I know, I’ve not finished the last two mini projects lol, but it helps me be busy whilst awaiting components.  Been thinking about ...

Sprayed up the neck ring with plastic-kote  white paint & left it to dry for a day or so. No pics of this but onto the next colour, Red....

 Test fitting of the panel identified that a few things needed tweaking. The utility arm wouldn’t close properly. The screen was still a bit...

Before spaying  up the screen white & then  getting to work on weathering it.....see below. The piece of wood that sits between the two ...

Last week, I stripped down the dome of it's fitted components & started to spray up the dome, white. Still have the lower ring t...

Finished off the last grooving to the curved panel. Lightly sanded it and applied a PVA wash over it. Next up was some silver detaili...

So i got home from work Friday 26th and gave the components a lite sanding over the primer paint. I then set up my hi tech spray booth.......

I already had the plans for the ankle details, which are available via www.astromech.net forum, so it was just a case of marking up some wo...

A long time  ago.......... ;-) I realised that my nagging conscious wasn't going to let me sleep anymore lol. This (zoomed in) image o...

I needed to add some more pads & had Steve add some more tabs to help centralize the metal band. I was considering weight against thickn...