Happy Thanksgiving!

Man, this year has gone by quick! Only a few more months till Megacon, yeesh!
Dad and Mom got some more pieces glued together as you can see in the pics.
The frame was done mainly by them because I have little to no skill at this kind of thing. lol But I did do all the sanding and some of the cutting at least.





Also here is a picture of our 20 pound turkey. Yum!
I hope you guys have a Happy Thanksgiving! :)

Working on R3's frame

I finally got the time to work on my robot again! :)
My dad and me spent most of the weekend cutting out pieces of polystrene for the frame and sanding them.
Yesterday and today we glued some of the pieces together.

Happy Halloween!

This isn't related to building Goldie just thought I'd share it anyway.
Today was the big Florida Vs Georgia college football game and Dad decided to bring him out in the crowd.
Man, people were flipping out over him!

Also the last pic is my kitten I found under my house 4 weeks ago. One of my outside cats bred with a siamese cat apparently and she only had 2 kittens.
One is female and the kitten I have is a boy. I named him Wally. :)

And I should be working on my robot this week too! (I hope)

More dome progress

We spent about 20-30 min. or so sanding the bottom of the dome to get the rough jaggedness off of it.
Then I cut out the ring that goes around the bottom of the dome.
We only need one ring instead of two since that's how R3 is in the CloneWars movie.
You can see the ring we'll be using better in pic. 1.

Some progress

Well, haven't been able to do much lately but, I did get a few things done this week.
I got the top round panel up on the top of the dome cut out today.
We at first had the smaller panel you saw in the last post on the dome until we noticed that the panel was actually bigger in the CloneWars movie, almost touching the other panels.
So we cut that piece out of the inner dome, which works for me because it made the inner fit ALOT better inside the outer dome.
The hole in the top circular panel will eventually be filled will glazing putty and will then be sanded.




And I also finished cutting the skins out, and got the extra styrene cut off of the ring the dome sits on.
Annnd finally the material for the frame came in this week!

Panels cut out

Dad and I finally got most of the panels cut out today with a dremel and sanded them down.
I just placed them anywhere to see what they would look like on the dome.
Dad did a good job on those, it's looks great and I haven't even painted it yet!

The last picture is what the dremel did to the extra C&D styrene dome we bought for the panels.

Giant R2D2 Brownie

I know this unrelated to building Goldie but it's gonna be awhile till my next update.
Mom cooked it about 30 min. ago. :-)

Panel guide lines

The "spider" Pixelfiend sent came in real quick! (Thank you! :))
I now have the panels drawn on it. It's off alittle by maybe a hair but, it doesn't need to be THAT perfect. And I don't think anyone'll notice either.
It may be off because some of the waves that were in the dome when I got it are still in there. Couldn't sand it all out. :(

And it turns out I had just enough Easy-Tack to get the "spider" print to stay on.
First, I had to spray the easy-tack on there to keep it from comming off of the extra styrene I had.
Then, I had to cut it out.
And after that, sand off the incorrect lines I had on the dome.
Then finally, put the spider on top, tape it down, and draw the lines on.

And I thought I wasn't going to get anything done today. HA!

(Picture of "spider" taped on the dome in the 1st pic, and picture of the guide lines drawn on in 2nd pic.)

R3 update

The extra C&D outer dome that I need to make the panels and eye with came in today!
I'm pretty much gonna follow what DroidWelder did to make the eye, panels, and the arms. http://astromech.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1453&page=5
The frame material also came in today buuut, it was the wrong size! So we sent it back and now it will probably be a while till it gets here.

I got the plastic base plate for the frame cut too. (second pic)
The base is 3mm thick and about 18 inch across.

Annnnd, the can of Easy-Tack I use to keep the skins from comming off ran out, so I may not be doing much at all this week.