James' R5-D4

 May 2nd 2023 https://sites.google.com/site/theageofplastic3d/all-about-r5-d4

Today, September 5th, back in 2018, I got to work on a little project code named 'TRIXIE'. Due to change of plans on set, I didn...

 When I originally fitted the ankle detail, I hadn’t permanently fix it to the leg. I just used hot glue. It lasted surprisingly well. But a...

Missed a few weeks of throw back Thursday's , so making up for it this week with two posts: Upgrade and screen accurate work to R5...

Whilst searching up on eBay, I found that these's! A droid set of pin badges! These pics are gleaned from internet searching.....

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.......

With all the other work going on, the part that would need some real thought was the new side foot shell panels. The original ones I made,...

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...

The centre leg securing bracket needed upgrading. Original pieces were two aluminium angles that clamped either side of the leg tongue,...

I fitted the wheel caster base back onto the internal foot platform, minus, the previously fitted wood MDF spacer pad, it's not needed n...

30.10.15 Whilst the centre leg was off and dismantled, I got my work friend [when he had two mins spare] to turn me a bush for the ankle lo...

Saturday, I got to finishing off some things that needed doing to the platform to make it actually fully useable lol. As it was, there was n...

So last night I started to re-assemble all the components for R5's new centre leg. First off was fitting the internal wheel platform ...

So here's the new centre leg all sprayed up in white with clear coat too. Ankle cylinder unit and holder fitted in place too. I did ...

After some more sanding of filler. I next cut up a piece of 8mm dia dowell. This was instead of the planned two screws to hold on the cylin...