R0-D4 Dome update 2020 (Part 2)

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.

Thankfully I still have the original wood neck ring, so that I could match up the painted stripes.

There are four quarters which have thicker vertical bands. These had a stripe of masking tape and the pin strips to prevent paint bleed.

Next came the top and bottom bands, again using the pin stripe tape width, with an additional single thickness vertical line at each centre of the quarters. As can be seen in above picture.

Then the fun bit, spraying with the red metallic’ish paint.

Looking good. I left this for about 20mins before starting the messy bit, removing the pin stripe tape.

I had made sure to corner crease the edges of the over lapping tape, but this isn’t the best way, cutting the tape is. But I didn’t want to damage the paint and it’s not critical. Weathering will cover up and also chipped paint too.

Once all the tape was off, one final picture before being left to fully dry.

R0-D4 Dome update 2020 (part 1)

 This dome has been sat patiently on a shelf waiting for me to finish its dome ring I upgraded a few years ago. Original the ring was wood, but when having to upgrade the dome to the new rockler style bearing, I had to deconstruct the neck ring to be able to get the old bearing surface out.

Check the link for the beginning of this building process here:

Building R0-D4’s wood dome.

On with the update 2020:

I had glued the 3D printed panels together, but then ‘welded’ them using a soldering iron and extra PLA filament. Melted plastic is a much stronger bond than super glue. Forward to 2020:

I smoothed over the not so perfect joins, before hitting it with filler primer.

The neck ring is detachable so spraying is easy. A few coats of primer before spraying up red & white.

More updates soon.

Throw Back Thursday - R0-D4 dome build

This week, throw back Thursday is a look at my R0-D4 dome I started to make.
The name is just my play on the R0 domes created by Lee & Oliver for 'The Force Awakens' film.

As with all my work it's built from wood, although a few years later I started an upgrade to change the rotation setup, requiring a new lower neck ring. This was going to be made out of metal, but due to tools, I had to make do with 3D printing it. This part is still uncompleted. He actually had a toy (not official) made of him by Mark T.....Blog link here.

So here's the dome,

semi completed and before the neck ring upgrade work had begun:

Frame work:

Link to Blog history of build can be found here.
Thanks for reading.

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