Paint color choices...

Here are all the different gold spray paints I've tried so far for the dome.


Alot of the colors came out much different than what it showed on the can, which really sucks because that means I'm out $5-7 dollars each time I pick a wrong color.

Some are also 2 different spray paints mixed together to try and come up with a another color.





And here are some of the more yellow-gold colors we got from Sherwin Williams.



This is probably going to be the color I'm going with. The color is called "duckling". The color looks alot better in person.

I'll just need to find out if I can get it in a spray can. And it may not look the same as the sample, so I'm crossing my fingers that it will come out right.

I've noticed that "Goldie" is not really gold, he's more of a yellowish-gold to me. And all the gold spray paints I've sampled came out a little too shiny, and some had a glitterish look to it.

Which is why I'm going with a more yellow color instead of a gold.
The color I've chosen isn't perfect, but it's good enough for me.

I should be painting as soon as I finish up with the ring, fill all the pits in the dome, and when the holos come in.
That's all for now!

Totally un-related to R3 but...

*EDIT* I have my FaceBook account again!
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MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DISABLED! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*sniff* And I didn't even piss anyone off this time. :(

So if you we're wondering what happened to my Facebook account, you now know.
I may or may not make a new account, don't know yet. Had a ton of things on that account that I really do not feel like uploading again, not including all the friends I had.
Oh well.



Farewell Facebook!

EYE see you!

We got the rader eye finished today and went ahead and glued it in with some Goop.
Well, it's not entirely finished, we taped on lense for now. The lense I went with are the bronze see-through kind so I can eventually put a web cam in that area.

And in the picture above is my new $40 "dome bumps".
They're supposed to light up red when I get them hooked up. They're the black and red version of dad's (Calvin) blue and chrome dome bumps. Same price and from the same place he got them too.

And also we've been trying different types of gold spray paint for the dome and STILL haven't found the right color! I've found a color that would probably look good enough, so I might have to just settle with it.
Sooooo, you might just be seeing Goldie painted pretty soon!

That's all for now!

Working on the dome again

I'm working on Goldie's ole noggen again, trying to get him ready for StarWars Celebration 5. Only less than 5 months to go, ick!
Today we got the guide lines drawn out for the radar eye and the stripes. Ignore the dirtyness of the dome. :)


Here is the front piece of the radar eye cut out from the extra outer styrene dome I bought.


And we also got the hole for the PSI cut out, and:


the back PSI and logic cut out too. Still rough looking, so I'll be doing some more cleaning up on that.


That's it for now!

Small update

Just a small update of some of the things we've done in the last few days...
We used a dremel to cut out the holes for the vents, *very nerveracking*, and
I added 2 pieces to the frame for support (the 2 vertical pieces closest to each side of the vent area), and made 2 notches in the vertical pieces for the data port to fit.


We altered the frame again for the vent to fit in as you can see.


And after much sanding we got the vents to fit in!
Picture of vent, still not finished of course, but will be soon!


(close up of vent)


And below is the glue we used to glue the vent inserts to the vent surround. (TesTors cement for plastic models)


More leg progress:





Totally not related, but anyway,
Here is my dad's (Calvin) light up movie poster finally finished and mounted on the wall:

Megacon 2010

Here is our Southern R2 Builders set up.





















More pictures will be posted soon at my Facebook account, which can be found at the right side of my blog.

I'm back!

And we mananged to get a few things done on Goldie. ;)
As you can see in the first picture, we finally got the holes cut out for the logics which took the combination of a dremel and hack saw and LOTS of sanding with a metal file my dad likes to call Mr. Bastard. lol
Also you can see in the pictures the thin ring around the dome is taped on temporarly until I can get it glued on.
My dad and me also got the dome permanantly glued onto the dome ring and got it and the bearing mounted onto the body. So now his head can move... just not by itself of course.

In this picture below, I got the back panels cut out, sanded, and glued on.

Annnd in this picture I got more body work done to make the area we patched up un-noticeable. Still got alittle more to do on it though.

Last but not least, our resin parts came in!
This is the before and after picture of the vent surrounds. We had to shorten the vents some because the Clone Wars droids have smaller vents.
The first one is the one we shortened and the second one is the one we didn't cut yet.

The logic surrounds.

More to come soon!

Leg progress & more!

The measurements for the legs are in the pic below.







I also got all of the panels permanently glued onto the dome. I used 3m scotch tape and ISP Weld-on #3 to glue the edges of the panels, like we did for the panels on R3's body.
The rectangle drawn on the dome is where I will be cutting a hole through the outer dome for the logics.