London, ON Droid building 101

Thank you for the advice grey_starr

Let us begin.
Who is interested in making a droid for the group?
Who is willing to contribute time to make a droid?
Who is willing to contribute to the cost of making a droid?
What droid should we make? I would suggest that we let Darthsolve deside since he was the first to suggest building a droid.

 

well Solvo and I can make the droid since we'll have the most access to materials and equipment to make one. I'll talk to him tomorrow

 

Sources...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/r2builders
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/astromechs
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/r7droidbuilders

and Alexs site, http://www.f1m.com/ask/Scale/r2d2/page01.htm (he needs to fix his links)...

I have the R5 dome layout flatpattern if you'd like me to send it... just need an email...

 

What happen to this being a group thing.



also, grey_starr great links lots of blueprints, thanks again.

 

my bad

 

id love a R2 unit of our own

i think a black and gold one would be awesome but its really a groupe decision

 

I've been down loading all kinds of blue prints.

I think that we could make a very simple static R2 even in time for the parade. It should be less then $100. I'll bring as much as of the blue prints as I can to the garrison on Sunday.

Later, we could work on one as elaborate as we like. That's when all the techno junkies can have fun.

 

I got plenty of droid schematics for the R series and the T3's

 

Are you coming to the garrison on Sunday?

 

IF you are interested... I can provide contact info for ordering a MSE (mouse) droid shell... it would be 70us +shipping... the shell was made 4/5 scale to accomodate the the most common RC cars of today... pics of the shell are avaialbe if wanted as well...

 

sounds fun... I used to be fairly good at electronics, but I got out of the loop.

 

i think ive found something for the dome of our droid

 

Care to share your finding?

 

at my school some one made a perfect dome out of plastic with our schools vacume former
so once he is done with it im guna try to get it from him

 

Wow, I reminded myself of a Care Bear.

Plastic dome is cool, it's not too difficult to get that to look like metal if you have the right paint. Plus if you want to add attachments, it's easier to cut holes in plastic.