Its been a little while since my last post. I'd been having scheduling issues with getting near a table saw to cut my ribs. When I went to Kent Building Supplies and found out that each cut would only cost 25cents I jumped at it. Not having to fool around with swapping out blades for my dad's tablesaw was worth the 3$. I`m still looking forward to working with dad as I still have the side plates to cut out.
Well, I received my resin parts from Keith and I`m amazed at the quality. Don`t get me wrong the pictures on the resinparts.com website look great otherwise I wouldn`t have bought them. But when you have them in your hands and start to think about the engineering that went into these parts it boggles the mind.
You can see that my frame pieces are almost complete. The uprights have been cut to lenght and the ribs have been routered but not cut to lenght. I can barely contain the excitement that I've been feeling knowing that I'm getting closer to my goal of having R2 skinned... ew.. that sounds horrible.
I've been trying to make the foot cylinders out of an old shovel handle. I've cut it to length and have been cutting the grooves by hand. Before anyone ask YES its slow and painful.. LOL. It isnt' too bad. I've been sitting in the evenings watching TV making the grooves.
I've been stessing over mostly every step of my build. Today its been the pipe for the leg. I found a spot that sold 1in ridge conduit but its 30$ and 10 feet long. Since I don't need that much and I'm building on a budget I didn't want to be wasteful. Today while rereading posts on Astormech.net I came across a post by Victor that showed Michael McMaster's build and how he joined two pipes using a square tube. Victor if you ever read this TY for posting that link! And before I forget here is the link http://www.n2citrus.com/artoo/body4.html
