Throw back Thursday: May 2018 - My R5-D4 patches

 A long time ago.......

Seven years ago today [well, yesterday lol].

My own designed patches arrived.

Read about that day here.

10 Year anniversary of R5’s build completion

As we like to say, no droid build is ever REALLY completed lol. But when all the pieces are there and he’s motorised & moving (and cleared), we call that the completed build stage.

2024 marks 10 years since I finished building R5!

That same year also marked his first event:

And some other milestones.

Two pairs of decorated shoes:

A pair of wedges for everyday wear

I also made some ‘droid callers’, which buzzed when button was pressed.

All the links to these other projects, can be found in the tabs at the top of the page, as they have their own Pages.

Goodbye Dad.....

 

A week ago today (3rd October 2023), my Dad lost his battle with his illness and peacefully slipped away, he was 79. We were with him for the four days he was in hospital, but he never regained consciousness from when he was admitted.

All the medical staff were amazing.

Because of where he lived, contact between us was limited to facetime chats and so I never then really got to have any real in-depth conversations with him past the casual family updates, which is a shame, as I would of liked to have had that opportunity.

He never met R5 in person, so never got to see that the wood working skills I had used to build it and the challenges I had to over come where in part due to him as I remember watching him make stuff as a young boy. I don't know if he actually realised my achievements with R5 either, which is a shame.

I have learnt over the years that the past is the past, you can't change it, no matter how much you may want too! You can only change the future and improve it as you go.

Rest in Peace now with Mum and all our other family members who have sadly passed on.

Love you Dad.

RED CUP 2017 - Anniversary

This week back in 2017.....

Checkout the link:

https://www.starwars.com/news/secrets-of-the-solo-a-star-wars-story-creature-shop

Fan-Made Droids

“Solo is the first Star Wars film not to feature R2-D2. It did, however, have six other R-units in various roles. This brings the total number of different R-units in the new movies up to 17 — 18 if you include C1-10P, a.k.a. Chopper, in his cameo in Rogue One. Most of these droids were built and operated by members of the UK R2-D2 Builders Club.”

‘Rogue One’ - 5years old

Five years ago, Star Wars gave us Rogue One.

Managed to get the above 50th anniversary Rogue One trading card off ebay, as I’d missed out on buying one off the website. Also managed to not pay over the odds for it.

Found and saved this above image that was posted up on Twitter earlier this year on one of the #rogueone trending days lol.

Close look and you can see droids 😎

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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R5-D4's 1st year moving anniversary

One year anniversary weekend of R5 rolling!
Can't believe R5's been 'alive' now for a year?!? It was a bit longer before his head moving was sorted tho lol.

Link to post from lasy year:

R5's first steps

Another Year of R5-D4 building

The month of January is the anniversary of starting this project to build my R5-D4 Unit,
back in 2011.

But it all started about 10 months before in 2010, with these two Droids........

I had heard about a local Sci-Fi event in Corsham

that I thought me and my children might like to go to.

Check out the

Corsham Sci-fi Charity

and find out about the money they raise and up and comming events.

This years is 26th April 2014

My Son was really into Boba Fett at the time so it was a bonus that Jeremy Bulloch [Boba Fett] along with others was going to be there!

For us, the main characters were the Star Wars ones, inparticular, R2 & his fully automated R6 buddy. Seen in the pictures above. All the kids, not just the little ones, were suitably impressed!

On closer inspection, I could see that they were both made from WOOD!

Those famous words every Dad knows so well, when asked.......

'Dad, can you make me one?' Came out of my Son's mouth,

on my stunned uttering of the words, 'I could build one!'

I soon searched the web and found the maker of these Astromach's @ Podpad studios.

And started to follow the build of his several other creations.

This gave me inspiration that I too could create and build my Astromech Droid.

And so after months of research and the realisation that a wood build was my only and cheapest build option, I began. It's taken a while to build, as only in my free time, late evening's, weekends & lunchtimes in work. I've learnt new skills, shortcuts, and so much more from following Blogs like this and also on the two main forums I'm a member of.....

The UK R2 Builders Club [this is the main UK info page]

&

Astromech.net [which you will have to register with]

So I'm now, hopefully, on the last stretch of the build and hopefully,

will get him motorised and Fully Operational ;)

So stayed tuned.........