Nice! I assume you have to screw/unscrew from the inside?
I've been working on assembling the dome some more. The idea is to use hardware to attach the various parts instead of glue or silicon. Here I used mirror clips to hold the front logic display and they worked great.
I've also been weathering a little as I go. Mainly chipping the paint. He'll get dirtied up real good eventually. I've been hitting the dome with a hammer but it's not very noticeable. I'll have to take things up a notch.
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You have to be careful where you drill holes. Everything needs to be covered by the outer dome and the panels.
every day i enjoy the fact that i've got a life sized r2d2 ..
I just wish i had the skill to do an advanced dome. with lit up HPs and moveable parts.
it took all i had just to get the one i have now looking that good.
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How did you get those lights? I Thought those where long out of print and replaced with the far more annoying to assemble LED versions?
I thought the LED idea was nice until i tried to put the things together.
They're the Teeces lights. A ton of LEDs. A couple of guys over at the Astromech boards sell completed kits. I wasn't about to solder all those up if I didn't have to.
baltic birch, the only way to roll!! :cool you are seriously making great progress. roughly how many hours a night do you get in?
Holy Crap Matt! This is stellar work!!! I like the xbox controller idea too and I hope that works out! Curious on why you chose ANH?
Usually an hour or so. Some nights I won't do anything but if I really get into something I can work for a few hours. It's actually going together much faster than I thought it would!
Yep, if you search for me under the same username over there too, I used to sell completed kits as well. They are VERY time consuming as well ya, you know seeing them now and eventually just wasn't worth it doing the kits anymore for the price I was selling them at.
It looks like he's using the older style Teece joymonkey light kits. NeilT you talking about the joymonkey teece lights or his new version? All of them use LEDs and all of them generally require assembly. You can still gather the Teece light kits yourself and buy the PCB, either version isn't actually that hard, its just the teece version you have something like 100+ LEDs to solder (I used to sell completed kits) where as the newer joymonkey kit, you just need to use the fiberoptic cables. I help folks build them up and program them, if you need assistance on it just let me know.
4 months is nothing, i just got a part i have been waiting for for 2 years. i wasn't out the money for the 2 years but just had to wait 2 years before the parts runner ran the part again. i hear 3po parts is a living nightmare time wise. i want a complete left arm to paint red, but it looks like people are waiting close to a year and 1/2.
its at the point im willing to pay someone to print me a arm, but it takes so long to print i haven't found anyone interested
Matts gone the right route with this build. and doing a lot of the fabrication himself, with the way he's going he should be done in no time. like I've said before, if i were to do this R2 build again, i would follow Matts instructions. 100% aluminum r2's cost too much, weight too much, and take too long to collect
matt keep up the great work buddy, im rooting for ya!