R2-D2 Droid on board 3d printable sign

 Just uploaded my R2-D2

Droid on board 3d printable sign to my Prusa account.

Just needs a suction cup fitted or similar, to hang in rear of car.

Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre - Falcon Fun Day

This coming Bank Holiday Monday 29th August (here in the UK), we’ll be attending:

Falcon Fun Day

@ Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre,

over in West Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

Website link here

The open day was attended by another R2 builder (Matt) earlier this year.

Web link here.

If you don’t know, this is where the Millennium Falcon was built for The Empire Strikes Back.

YouTube links (not my own)

This one below, is mine 😎👍🏽

https://pdht.org/whats-going-on/

Busy week: R5 motor bracket/3D designing and more….

 A busy week of building, buying, designing etc….

1:

R5’s second new foot motor bracket frame, needed completing: just needs some finishing tweaks, and 3D printed brackets for the channel plate.

2:

Been discussing in group chat about next year’s Star Wars Celebration , attending droid numbers etc.

3:

Been designing up ‘control panels’ for a side project idea. See coming post.

4:

Whilst researching I came across a video about the origins of R2’s PSI lenses. So a search on eBay and I managed to get a bargain for £6.00 GBP. Its a vintage Weston Masters two, photographers light meter.

The lens is bubbled on one side, but i was surprised to see that the honeycomb part was multiple layers of punched/stamped pieces, that were then rivited together.

R2-D2’s data port LED’s components [3D printed]

 So over on the astromech.net forum, I came across a post about the ‘light bar’ electronics components and that they were becoming harder to source. These can be seen in picture below.

Thought I’d have a go at searching to help out. Found the original supplier info and the date sheet pdf for the component(s). So decided to draw one up in CAD. Turned out ok.

I found some opaque plastic and cut it to fit. I then drilled a hole in the back and fed an led in. It was a bit bright (as it was a crystal clear one) but it gives an idea of what it would look like.

I’ve also uploaded three versions to my Thingiverse page:

Single with separate lens. www.thingiverse.com/thing:4718965

Triple with separate lens. www.thingiverse.com/thing:4719976

Triple with lens combined (if printing in opaque filament and then painting the sides)

www.thingiverse.com/thing:4720376

#R2D2 #R5D4 #3dprinting #thingiverse #helping #astromechdroid

The Rise of Skywalker - Visual Directory

Treated myself to an early Christmas gift, ordered via Prime, it arrived Monday before Christmas.

Another great book, most interested in the droids section, specifically the Astromechs lol.

Christmas Card 2019 - Lee Towersey

Received this cool Christmas card from Lee. As I wasn’t able to attend the group’s Xmas event on Saturday, he kindly popped it in the post.

The card was designed by Topps artist, Marsha Parkins and features a number of droids Lee has worked with over the last few years on the films.

The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, Solo a Star Wars story to name drop just three lol.

Marsha has a few socials, Facebook etc, but checkout her gallery over on Deviant Art:

www.deviantart.com/marshaparkins/gallery

'Droid Builders UK' a new central builders hub

Droid Builders UK (link)

A new central builders site for Droids has just gone live!

It's for all droid builders from Mouse to the new D-O from the new film

The Rise of Skywalker

With a lot of builders who have now become cross over builders in similar groups, the site aims to link all up together as a central point for news and info. It has links to the Facebook pages for the droid groups and also events being attended.

There is also a Twitter & Instagram account

 

@droidbuildersuk

Littlebits - Star Wars Droid Inventor Kit - pt 8 (2019)

So the extra tinkering I thought would help with the lid fitting better, radius'd edge, didn't and made the gap bigger. The idea for the lip is just to locate it centrally for gluing to the head. So I went back to alter the lip edge a bit more, I'll test print it this week.

This is the Littlebits droid in it's R2-D2 guise.

.......and below as R5-D4

Whilst I was at it, I re-positioned the antenna to face forward, it was just a little thing but it was bugging me lol. I also added a version with a 'bad motivator'.

Both 'lid' options will be available on

my Thingiverse account.

Event - Techniquest in Cardiff - May 4th 2019

Looking forward to attending this event this Saturday.
First time visiting Techniquest over in Cardiff,
will be joining Paul with his 1977 authentically based R2-D2.
As well as other characters from Star Wars,
they are also screening 'A New Hope'.

Will try to post up event pictures on Instagram on the day.

click logo to view james_r5d4 Instagram

Website's flyer image

click the image to visit their website for the day's events,

times and entry fees.

Official Droid Cover for R5-D4 - part 1

Lee has been offering these on his website since last year,

but I'd just not got round to placing my order.

I got round to ordering one last week, a red one obviously, for R5.

These are made to order, so will have to wait a few weeks.

Lee's Droid Covers are available here.

Check out the rest of Lee's website as it has loads of info

about how he started droid building

to his time at event's and how he got into working

in the CFX department for the Star Wars films.

Lee Towersey - DeAgostini's R2-D2 & Meningitis Now

Lee Towersey is fundraising for Meningitis Now,
with this DeAgustini R2-D2.

As you can see, it was built by himself

and expertly 'painted & weathered' by Henrick.

Both have worked on the Star Wars movies since

The Force Awakens in the CFX Department.

Check out Lee's twitter here.

And the link to the JustGiving page for your chance to win this awesome R2-D2

All for a good cause.......

Attending Bristol Comic Con & Gaming Festival - March 30th 2019

First event of the year!
Myself with R5-D4, Paul with R2-D2 & Mike with R2-XL
will be attending

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It's another Bristol (local) first for us attending this event.

For more details, here's the link for March 30th.

www.mooseeventsuk.com

have a number of events on this year in the South West area.

Looking forward to hopefully attending a few of these.

Mini Droid get-together - 2nd July 2016

On Saturday 2nd July at a top secret location, the builders club had a pre-celebration droid get together. This mostly involved us just driving the droids around and chatting lol, but some new builds were shown off and updates & testing were done also.

Is always good to meet up with new builders & old ones too. I've not been able to attend as many of these as i would like, due to family commitments.

Some pics of the day.

My R0-D4

My R0 domed R5 body with friends

Photo credit goes to Colin [I think lol].

** Timeless Collectors Event @ Fareham **

Members of the UK R2 Builders Club have been invited along to the

Timeless Collectors Fair

Saturday 6th December

@ Fareham Leisure Centre from 10am to 5pm.

R5-D4 & R2-D2

Click on this link to check out all they have planed for the day!

Fleet Air Arm Museum Sci-Fi event - 29th November 2014

#Fleet-Air-Arm-Museum

Unfortunately R5 wont be able to attend this year,

but Giles with his R2-D2, Artoojayzero unit, will be joining Charity Sci-Fi at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, November 29th joining in with their Sci-Fi Day.

All things Science Fiction will be covered.

Check out the web site for more details of the days events.

Event report on the Sci-Fi Fest: (23rd Nov 2013) @ FLEET AIR ARM museum

My usual transport (my car) had been commandeered for the day so had to use the sub-standard cargo bay transport [don't tell the wife I called her car small :D]. Nearly two hours trying to fit R5 into the cargo bay of it! Eventually I had to resort to removing ALL his feet, not a big deal, only three bolts in total, as no electric motors to disconnect......yet. Then strap him in good and tight.

Just over an hours drive from Bristol & Yeovilton on a very cold, but Sunny morning.

Arrived and then began the R5 rebuild. Here I also meet up with fellow builder Giles & Artoojayzero. And my then unceremonious dragging him over not very smooth car park tarmac. Did a two trip journey, second was for R5's dome.

The event was organised by The Charity Sci-Fi Group.

Once inside we meet up with Mark and his 'collection' of droids! Below are links to his pages!

Podpadstudios these include a few people my recognise, and also introducing his latest creation....... Steam Punk Droid!

We set up and were off. As R5 was safley on display, I helped out with assisting Giles with his droid. Mark & Giles got loads of attention from the kids as well as parents lol. R5 also had his fair share of comments and questions and also the QR codes for our respective sites came in handy. The MK Garrison & The Southern Troopers group were also in attendance and were awesome! loads of photos taken :)

Before you knew it the day was done and it was packing up time. This was my first official event with R5....and his dome....but again, had a gerat time and managed to remember some names to put with faces. Well heres some of the photos taken.

R5 also has a Facebook page for those who would like to follow him on there,

click on this link to take you there James R5-D4

Giles & Artoo-jay-zero