Celebration Europe - Excel July 13th-15th 2007

I took my R2 down to CE this weekend and joined up with fellow builders (Jeff, Oliver, Arnd, Mark, Steve and Wim) in the Droid Builders Room
I got to meet Kenny Baker, Don Bies, Daniel Deutsch and Albin Johnson

More photos can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickpell/sets/72157600902280281/

Canary Wharf from Excel Arena




R2 Builders
Daniel Deutsch (Disney), Jeff Clark, Danny Wagner (ILM) Oliver Steeples, Don Bies (ILM) Wim Heirman, Arnd Reidel, Me

The R2 Builders Room


Oliver and Arnd's R2 Units

Jeff, Steve,Oliver and Wim's Astromechs



Leia and my R2

Anakin, Jeff's R2 and Padme

Another Leia and my R2

Obi-Wan and Anakin from UKG

UK Garrison

Kenny Baker signing

Jeff's R2 on CE Stage


Albin Johnson, founder of the 501st and R2 builders



UK Garrison Troopers



At-At




Darth and Caroline

Caroline and Jabba

X-Wing and R2


Arnd's first astromech

Don and Leia

Jango


Jeff carrying out some running repairs

Don Bies and My R2


Daniel Deutsch, Me and my R2


Troopers invade the Droid Builder Room



Royal Guard

Darth Maul in Dagobah

Vader Project

A bit more progress on the feet

I've now added casters to the feet and put R2 in the 3 legged position. Centre foot needs a fair bit more work and now just need the shells

A&A Feet Internals

 
The A&A feet motor holders came today and I've fitted them to my scooter motors. Hopefully Andy will be completing his A&A feet surrounds soon

Feet

Over the Easter weekend I made some feet out of MDF. They will do for now but will hopefully be replaced at some stage with pvc ones from A&A

Spinning Around

I have now connected the dome, Rockler bearing and the Atomic Pickle drive motor so now R2's head can spin....



It is only using a 9v battery in this test but spins at a decent speed

UK Robot Day

Today I took my droid down to the UK Robot Day organised by Steve Cole of Articole Studios.
It was good to meet up with fellow robot builders and seeing their robots including R2 units, K-9s, Daleks,Bender and a bar tender robot!

As you can see here it was a bit of a squeeze getting my R2 into the Z
 

Bender

 

Adam's Dalek
 

Bar tender robot
 

 

These are not the droids you are looking for ...

 

Steve's R2
 

So this is what's really inside a Dalek

 

K-9

 

Boys and their toys
 

The potato gun



Ray's all aluminium R2

My Birthday!! Coin Returns and Side Vents

Coin Returns for R2D2
Originally uploaded by http://www.flickr.com/people/19708261@N00/.

It's my birthday today and look what arrived....

R2D2
Originally uploaded by http://www.flickr.com/people/19708261@N00/.

I have now installed the side vents, pocketed side vents and the new coin returns into the skins
Here's hoping I can get the feet and skirts done in time for Celebration Europe.

C3PO Head

I have been working on this C3PO head over the last few days
Got it from a guy selling them on Ebay

Pocketed Side Vents

The aluminium pocketed side vents have now been completed and installed into the frame

Aluminium Radar Eye

The aluminium radar eye for R2 has arrived - almost too good to paint! 

Me and R2

Latest progress shot of R2 with me 

Logics

The lights for the front logics arrived today from fellow R2 builder Ben
 

Clone Trooper Helmet

I thought I'd take a break from R2 over the next month whilst the World Cup is on so I've got a mini project of building an Episode III Clone Trooper helmet. Thanks to Rick from the UKG for sending me this......here you can see the first coat of primer