Sunday, January 21, 2018

The life scanner - 1

One of the features I want to add to my R2 unit is the life scanner. I found several models on the internet, but none of them satisfied me, even if they are really beautiful, so I just designed one by myself...

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

The dome - 1

The "easiest" part to print of this R2D2 is the dome. It's made up of several pieces that must be printed, glued together, sanded and painted. As I wrote in the introduction, there is a long post produtcion work to do if you want a good loking Astromech...

Monday, January 1, 2018

Intro

Since the first Star Wars movie in 1977, when I was a child, one of my dreams was to built and Astromech. For years this was just a dream, even if I followed several times the progresses of other people on the web, particularly from the R2 Builders Club.

Unfortunately, the parts weren't easily found, at least in Italy, so I always posponed my intents to build this robot...