Getting filled in!!!!

Well, not a lot on the build front due to holiday preparation to see Star Wars Weekends in Florida plus the other attractions of course.

Oooohhhh! Nice!

So the two main feet have had the fancy trim stuck on and to help strengthen them the DIY car repairers buddy - P38. A dollop of this was mixed up and worked into any gaps and on the inside (out of view) to give these little bits a help should/when R2-ST hits an unmoveable object e.g. kerb.

R2-ST has its first event planned at Invasion Colchester in August even if its not ready, which I know it wont be. The event is to raise money for charity and has people dressed as characters from tv & film.
Should be good to put faces to names etc too.

Anyway this is what both feet look like with a bit more preparation to do

Looking good Houston.

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A little bit of this...

My time in the Design & Maintenance Workshop has been spent finishing the halfmoons for the main feet and getting them flat. This meant that they could be glued on and what a difference they made to the foot. It's all slowly coming together now.

The weathered look?

Today, I managed to deaden the nerves in my index finger, by using a scalpel (with a new blade just in case I decided to cut myself again) and cutting the detail pieces for the main feet. The styrene is only 1mm but in order to cut the slots out it meant going over the lines getting deeper and deeper each time. All together there was/were 40 slots to cut out measuring about 25mm x 5mm. How sad is that knowing the size!!!!

Finish the slots before tea - I hope!

It didn't take too long to cut either, once I'd got in the rythym. I even had a little set-up seeing the angle they go to etc, etc..

After this it was a quick mix of the good ol' car filler P38. to smooth over some of the ridges in the battery boxes . The smell bought back some memories of my younger years, but I had obviously forgotten the ratio as I had just managed to smear it over the boxes when it went hard. Thankfully I had mixed the right amount just too much hardener - a mental note for next time.
I'll leave them to completely set while I'm back at work then have a go at sanding/filing them smooth. 

Good, the photos don't show the lumps.

Everything is slowly starting to come together, but still a lot to do. Hey!Ho! good job no deadline.

At last - a 2nd Battery box







To many curves!!!

Yes, as you can guess from the post title I have finally made the second battery box. What's taken you so long? I hear you ask. Well, in a nutshell I couldn't be bothered to make it with all those curved bits but after giving myself a good talking too it has been completed.



Simples!!

The main parts were cut and glued yesterday which was nice and straight forward making a box.









Today was the day both boxes would get their second skin.

Order another pallet of masking tape please!!!

It was easy to cut being 1mm styrene. An idea I copied from somewhere was to give the door a lip. I decided 5mm all round would be good, so instead of following the line a new one was made 5mm bigger. Lining this up on the 3mm stuff was easy but one thing to be aware off is it leaves very little styrene before the curve section. I would recommend that this left to dry overnight before glueing the curve. But I didn't want to do that, so I had a bash at glueing the curves on. This involved some copious lengths of masking tape to keep the 1mm stuff in contact.


That's as far as I got today and I'm please with it. By the time I get back to the DMW they will be ready to finish off.