DROIDS @Mshed Bristol 2025

 DROID's @Mshed Bristol, are back!

Yes, all your favourite droids are back again, and a few new special attending ones as well!!

💥💥 'FREE ENTRY EVENT' 💥💥

Droids built by Droid Builders UK / UK R2-D2 Builders Club, we're a group of builders who make/build/3D print droids from TV & movies for enjoyment. From Star Wars to Dr Who. With members attending from ALL over the UK!

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👉 Check out this event on FaceBook's events,

please add yourself and share.

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We also have members from the MK Garrison - Vader and co.

Mike Berry of Vinyldesign's has been busy arranging & organising this event,

I'm just helping as his side kick/advertising/promotions guy 😄

Link to 2024's Event report over on the Droid Builders UK website.

Or over on their YouTube channel: Droid's @Mshed 2024.

We hope to see you there!

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This is a non profit event, all money donated goes to the groups chosen charity for 2025: 'Supporting Alzheimer's Society'

If you wish to make a donation, please click this link to our JustGiving page, Thank you!

#droidbuildersuk #SWDB25 #astromech #droids #Bristol #Mshed25

Droid Builders UK Christmas meet 2022 coming soon!!

 

Calling all UK Droid Builder’s, (& fellow world wide builders who may be in the UK at the time) the annual Christmas builders meet is coming!

Are you Signed up on the portal???

Checkout www.droidbuilders.uk

* non UK builders who maybe visiting the UK, wishing to attend, but not on the portal, get in contact for further details about how to attend *

# Get to meet fellow builders,

# chat and ask questions,

# find out ‘how too’,

# there will be all types of droids,

# finished and work in progress,

from 3D printed, aluminium, wood and styrene and everything in between.

There are time trials around the droid course, testing your (droids) agility lol. (TBC)

Lots of laughs guaranteed. Web linked for non attendees to view on the DBUK YouTube channel (see link below)

So checkout the website link above for full event details.

And the: Droid Builders YouTube channel (click link)

THE South West Builders Day 2022

 

🚨 It's that time again!!! 🚨

The South West

Droid Builders Day 2022

This year, it will be being held inside the M-Shed Museum,

next to last years event, but due to a

Mars base being built by the local council

on the spot we occupied, we will be now inside.

Members of the UK R2D2 Builders Club will be in attendance, along with props and work in progress droid builds. Builders will be on hand to answer your questions and of course

there will be plenty of photo opportunities.

Checkout the event via this YouTube video below,

featuring Mr B.

There's an event page up on Facebook, so go 'like' and share for others, thanks.

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We will also be joined by

The MK Garrison

click logo above for their website

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The M-Shed Museum

Checkout the links to Bristol's living museum [link]

The Working exhibits [link]

#bristol #mshed #droidbuilders #starwars

Event Report: MegaCON @ NEC Birmingham

 Last Tuesday afternoon....... it started.... 😂😂😂😂😂 ..............the group chat!

With it being central (here in England) really helps as builders from all over are able to make, (mostly) the short'ish journey to attend. I say that, but Doug traveled down from Scotland….5hrs each way!!!

With this in mind:

• R5's been getting the once over, and also a few upgrades.
• Smoke system, reactivated.
• New TCD version 2.....

Friday I get a call from Mike saying he won’t be able to attend, so giving me the heads up. So it's a reload my car [Tetris] ready for the early start tomorrow morning.

Saturday morning 26th:

5am up and out the door, eventually, at about 5:30am. Drive up was 1 1/2 hr, cold, clear, bright sunny morning.

Arrived in good time 7:10am. Next was driving around the whole complex to come back to the starting point, to unload 😂.

The others had arrived the evening before and stayed at local hotel, so they were mostly set up, and able to help me unload.

Doors opened at 8:30am for the early birds entrance patrons. And there were a LOT of them. Behind our area was Joker Squad, with Endor backdrop, and then the 501st with the Tantive lV display.

Was great catching up with not just the R2 Builders, but also other club members who we’ve not seen in years (since COVID).

There were plenty of laughs….

Chris just can’t help getting in the pictures 😂.

The event was very busy, and with other rooms containing the kidtropolis arena, Tokfest for those ‘down with the kids’ 😂 and the open spaces, it still seemed busy.

The new card dispenser worked well and was a big hit ☺️👍🏽 And so was the smoke system for the bad motivator…..I just need to get the pop-up working.

Costumes from the public were great.

I had to ask this awesome Grogu for a picture with R2.

And how about this Luke…..

The 501st lead their parade accompanied by the other groups.

See video of this and the rest of the day over on my YouTube channel or click on it below.

Video.

Here are more of the day’s photos:

Waiting for the group photo with the 501st and other groups.

After everyone was back inside, the droids continued to roam the floor, accompanied by Stormtroopers and a Princess.

Pictures….

Time for a change, from R5 into……

R4-D4. First time with his new 3D printed Booster covers.

View from behind the table.

Doug’s 3D printed blue R2 dome, with my R5 dome 

Well D had been on his feet all day.

The droids all together.

The Princess with the Death Star plans.

Not a bad looking trio, with no red to spoil the view lol 😂

These two…… lol, how he managed to become three when there’s only two allowed 😂

Saturdays end of the show show, Droid lineup.

And then us lined up.

Saturday finished up at 6pm, there were still people milling around. The builders then gave me a hand with loading my stuff back into my car.

As Darren was the most senior ranking club member, he didn’t do a bad job of organising us lol 10/10.

So that was the end of my day, but for the others, they had Sunday day 2.

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Sunday 27th:

Due to reduced droid numbers, the group opted for no display table & so the freedom to be fully roaming of the event floor.

Here’s the group with the event sign.

And here’s the seamlessly edited version including previous days droids 😂😂😂

A great time was had by all of us. We had all taken lateral flow tests prior to attending, some unfortunately had tested positive and had had to cancel attending. You guys were missed, but your sacrifice will not be forgotten.

Attending these events is a really positive experience, plenty of room, smooth floors, some of it had ‘carpet’, and lots of event guests to entertain lol.

Sometimes though you just need that one photo position that is asking for trouble 😂😂😂….. case in point, I had knelt down to get a picture, and was then harassed by a droid 😂😂😂

😂😂 no person was harmed in the taking of this picture 😂😂😂.

Event - MegaCON @ NEC Birmingham

 

Birmingham's NEC arena will be R5's next event!

Really looking forward to heading back to the NEC as it means that (due to it's central location) more of the club members are able to attend, 10 droids (potentially).

I’ll be heading up with Mike B & possibly Paul F, for the one day, Saturday 26th.

This new event will be being held in Hall 1.

So check out the website via link and hopefully we’ll see you there!

Event's 2022 .......... These are the Droids your looking for!

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EVENTS 2022

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The UK R2-D2 Builders club’s event

calendar is filling up with some events

already taken place this year!

These are up and down the country from

local charity events to big name ones.

Most are likely to have more than one

Astromech in attendance.

The South West builders contingent

will be attending not just events here

in the South West, but also:

Birmingham, NEC

Milton Keynes, Marshall arena

Scarborough

Bolton arena, Horwich

Liverpool

Weston-Supa-Mare

Swindon, Steam museum

Wales, Newport

With other club members attending other events

covering the whole of the UK, Ireland, Scotland & Wales!

Sunday 6th March

Paul F & his R2-D2, attended our first ‘local’ event,

right here in Bristol @ the Bristol City football stadium,

for UKCGF (UK Comic & Gaming Festival).

He said that the que was long

and he’d run out of trading cards by 1pm!!

I'll post up an event report at a future date.....

😎😎😎2022 is looking good for events! 😎😎😎

** YouTube - click/watch/subscribe **

Don't forget that there are loads of video's up on my

YouTube channel,

so go click the link, watch,

thumbs up and subscribe 😎👍

#youtube #jamesR5D4 #videos

You can also find me on Twitter, for Blog/video updates,

latest events I'll be attending this year 2022 as

well as info on the UK R2D2 Builders Club / Droid Builders UK

3D Printed Coin Display Stand

Wanted a way to display these two coins.

The holes are a nice fit and don't damage them.

The recessed hole allows for the coin to be partially viewed from the rear and also pushed out to be rotated to display the other side.

Top hole suits a dia 40mm coin

Bottom hole suits a dia 44mm coin

Both these coins are for the Astromech droid collection.

 

Thingiverse link for the 3D.stl file

Droid Builders UK - limited edition collector challenge coin

 Advert for the Droid Builders UK

Droid Builders UK

have available a new challenge coin,

all are individually numbered

and will be distributed

as per the date of your order.

Only 100 coins have been produced, so they won’t be available for long.

Celebrating 11 years of Droid Building

Numbers 1 and 100 will be auctioned for our chosen charity,

details to follow.

Postage includes tracking.

Lee Towersey - YouTube

 So if you don’t know who Lee Towersey is, get on over to his YouTube channel and check out what’s involved in attending a Tier 2 event.

I’ve mentioned before that here in the UK our droids have to pass an MOT inspection process to be allowed to attend events representing the club and this then includes PLI in case of accidents. All droids that pass are classed as Tier 1, but, if you’re droid meets the requirements, you can apply for a Tier 2 status. This isn’t for everyone as T2 can be a daunting prospect, as this video shows, but to see your work on TV for example, has got to be worth it.

My R5 was cleared for Tier 2 from his induction into the club. I wasn’t aware of it till Colin informed me lol. So keep your eyes open as you never know, you may spot him ;-)

check out Lee’s YouTube channel (& also his website) for more.

#leetowersey #droidbuildersuk #astromech #youtube

New to Droid Building.....??? Then check out this guide to getting started.

 Building a Droid can be a bit daunting, but it's something that everyone can do. Yes, some will take years to complete whilst others have built them within 6 months.

All the different types of builds, material options, are all documented on the forums:

• www.astromech.net      [World]
• www.astromech.info     [UK]

The UK one is more a corner of the Club for builders local to each other for help/advice/events etc. We also have members from around the world.

clicking on this logo takes you to Rob's website

Thankfully one of our members, Rob H, produced a helpful guide as a way to get an understanding of how to build your Droid.

It has already been updated to V1.4 as it now includes additional information relevant in these times. If the below link becomes un-accessible, use the above logo link to his site, there you will be able to find the guides section.

So here's the link to your

Droid Building Guide

[PDF format]

DBUK 2020 - Charity #CALM - **total so far £7700!**

Just another plug for anyone wanting to donate to this great cause.

So far amount raised is £7700!!

Click on the above image or here for the link

Thank you for your support

Interested in droid building?? Then check out the following links:

Droid Builders UK

UK R2D2 Builders Club [UK devision]

DBUK 2020 - Live event coming soon!

In 2018 the UK R2 Builders Group hosted R2UK near Peterborough as an event ‘by R2 Builders, for R2 Builders’, including multiple talks and events such as droid races.

A year later in 2019 a second event was held in Shropshire with the same format and expanded content.

From feedback received and looking at other droid groups we have decided to broaden R2UK for 2020 and expand it to include any droids from the Star Wars universe, from Astromech's to BB units and beyond. This will allow us to showcase other droid builds and have additional content such as the 39.1% egg cup race.

Going forward R2UK will be called DBUK (DroidBuilders UK) and will encourage builders from the BB8 Builders Group, 39.1%’ers, T3 Builders along with 3D printed Battle droids/Pit droids and anything else Star Wars droid related to be in one place all at the same time.

By expanding beyond Astromech's this will allow us to have a more varied content including different talks and different approaches to building, however it will not mean that there is any less R2 related content.

2020 will be something different and is now an online event.

A Weekend full of droid related entertainment for droid builders with Talks, Demonstrations, Limited Edition Merchandise, Food, Drink & Droids Galore!

Throwback Friday - 10 years of the UK R2D2 Builders Club

This weeks throwback is a day late and also a few weeks too.....

June 9th marked 10 years of the first gathering of like minded builders. There were other builder groups, but this event marks the beginning of what has become the UK R2D2 Builders Group.

click on link below to view video

UK R2 Builders 10th Anniversary

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