Did this repair to the original dome (movie dome) require any painting. I'm curious if the sanding and weathering was done over a new matching paint patched area using your two part process. Sorry if I missed anything in detail through the thread.
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Nope, no paint required. It was an aluminum dome, so it was all hammer and dolly work to fix the dent, and then sanding and scotchbrite pads to try to match the repaired metal's surface quality to the unrepaired areas of the dome.
I just re-read your question, and I think I'd missed your point.
The dent was in an area that didn't have any blue panels so there was no paint touch-up needed.
The damage was a horizontal dent about 5-6 inches long, caused by the droid falling over and hitting the dome on a curb - Ouch!
The area affected was near to and above the long blue panel that the long data display is in. This was around the time all the droids were being prepped for use in Episode 1, and I think this was just prior to all of them getting repainted with the new 2-step blue paint process.
Yes, you are correct. I was curious if this was polishing roughness using those methods, including over an area of paint (I should have mentioned new OR old) or if you were weathering and aging a new smooth surface. To get an idea of what these tools were doing to the surface textures. Thank you.
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Duncanator : Fab Tested video. Nice work!
Re: the correct pronunciation of the name of the original British aluminium R2 builders, there's this great comment from Peteric's David Watling in an interview with Propstore's Brandon Alinger:
"So he took over these two small engineering companies and we amalgamated them. Now the interesting thing about them was, they were run originally by two brothers called Pettifor, P-E-T-T-I-F-O-R.
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"But the very first thing that happened, which got Pettifor Brothers subsequently re-named Peteric, the P-E-T as I think I said from the Pettifors, and the R-I-C from my father-in-law who was called Rice-"
Nice work!Re: the correct pronunciation of the name of the original British aluminium R2 builders, there's this great comment from Peteric's David Watling in an interview with Propstore's Brandon Alinger:
"So he took over these two small engineering companies and we amalgamated them. Now the interesting thing about them was, they were run originally by two brothers called Pettifor, P-E-T-T-I-F-O-R.
[...]
"But the very first thing that happened, which got Pettifor Brothers subsequently re-named Peteric, the P-E-T as I think I said from the Pettifors, and the R-I-C from my father-in-law who was called Rice-"
I watched that earlier, very cool! I always thought, if I won the lottery, that I would get an R2 with all the bells and whistles, then have a "filming" version with a Kenny Baker mannequin eating a sandwich inside. I love that BTS picture.
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I was at work when the Tested video dropped today, and I was so excited to watch it I took an early (and extended) lunch break. It was great to see you in action John!
We had a lot of fun that day. A lot of laughs!
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Thank you for this ! It feels good to watch scratch build stuff being built by you joyful people. Thank you so much
It's very inspiringTo be honest, it made me dive into the astromech rabbit hole again haha
