Tuesday, November 15, 2005

X-Wing at EuroDisney

We went to Disneyland near Paris at the weekend and at the Star Tours ride they had a full size X-Wing fighter
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Sunday, October 30, 2005


Front skins painted and mounted onto the frame. The frame now includes the jag stops and bottom ring. All parts loosely fitted except utility arms Posted by Picasa

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Monday, September 26, 2005


John Sherrell's aluminium skins have arrived and I've started work on them. Here you can see the skins loosely connected with some of the resin parts Posted by Picasa

Wednesday, August 24, 2005


Well it has finally arrived - thanks to Matt Coatney for sending the R2 frame from the states.
After a couple of evenings building and working out what goes where we have an almost complete upside down A&A frame!!!
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Sunday, July 17, 2005


Guy Averett's R2 dome drive arrived a couple of days ago - pity there's no dome or frame to attach it to yet!!! Posted by Picasa

Monday, June 27, 2005


Another new arrival today - Rockler bearing for the dome Posted by Hello

Saturday, June 25, 2005

First parts for R2

The first bits and pieces have arrived for my R2 unit:


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Front and back light logic kit


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Radar eye lens


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3 x Holoprojectors all courtesy of Azman

At the moment I'm still waiting for my Dome, the A&A frame and the Rockler bearing which will keep me going for a while......

UKG Proudest Moment

Finally got round to getting the A2 poster size photo of May 16th mounted....


Thanks to Gary Sheriston of the UK Garrison for this photo Posted by Hello

Friday, June 10, 2005

Latest project...... R2-D2

Yep I've finally decided to bite the bullet and start building an R2 unit and have just started doing all the research - mostly from www.astromech.net


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Sunday, June 05, 2005

Darth Tater

Look what Caroline gave me today.....................


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How cool is that?

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Star Wars Marathon - Leicester Square - May 16th 2005

Well the big day finally arrived and all I can say is AMAZING!!!!!

What a day out with the UK Garrison


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Troopers on early morning duty - we started out at about 5.30am with my first stint in the UCI Empire cinema Posted by Hello


Leicester Square 7am 16th May 2005 Posted by Hello


X-Wing Fighter Posted by Hello


Troopers ready for action Posted by Hello


Caroline and Ewan ? Posted by Hello


TK3002 at MTV in the green room at about 5.30pm
Got to meet Hayden Christensen here!!!! Caroline seemed more excited meeting Brian McFadden! Posted by Hello


anyone famous??? George Lucas, C3PO, R2D2, Chewwy, Christopher Lee etcPosted by Hello


To the tune of the orchestra playing the Star Wars theme we then followed Vader down the red carpet into the Odeon for the Premiere of Star Wars III Posted by Hello


Red Squad at the end of the day!!!Posted by Hello