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Re: R2-Droid project
« Reply #15 on: 2009-02-17, 03:20:59 »
they never are... and as soon as you think there done "WHAM!" it gets shot off your wing

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Re: R2-Droid project
« Reply #16 on: 2009-02-18, 13:24:49 »

Well, this is probably the last of the "ooh, wow!" video updates....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwT0Oww4Es[/youtube]

He's on his feet and he's moving! :) After this, it's mostly detail work, which will be no less time-consuming and expensive, I'm sure.
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Re: R2-Droid project
« Reply #17 on: 2009-02-18, 17:26:13 »
Awesome Ed!!!! Now ya' need to give him a "voice" soundtrack....... ;D

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Re: R2-Droid project
« Reply #18 on: 2009-02-18, 19:06:08 »
Awesome Ed!!!! Now ya' need to give him a "voice" soundtrack....... ;D

Oh, he's got the voice. Here's the video from the previous page:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ374F8VBOg[/youtube]

I have a 12-button remote, with one sound effect on each, except the last button that randomly cycles through about 20 of them.
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Re: R2-Droid project
« Reply #19 on: 2009-02-26, 19:05:48 »


Nothing below the neck is painted or has details attached yet, etc, but I finally got the shoulder horse-shoe pieces glued together and the "booster covers" attached, so the legs are looking more like their proper thickness now.
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Re: R2-Droid project
« Reply #20 on: 2009-02-26, 22:40:57 »
Don't care who you are, Ya' just GOTTA love it!!!! ;D ;D ;D

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Re: R2-Droid project
« Reply #21 on: 2009-02-27, 03:08:45 »
Nothing below the neck is painted or has details attached yet, etc, but I finally got the shoulder horse-shoe pieces glued together and the "booster covers" attached, so the legs are looking more like their proper thickness now.

Fixed picture link above
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Re: R2-Droid project
« Reply #22 on: 2009-03-02, 20:51:39 »

Convention photos: http://ed.toton.org/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?gallery=2009.shevacon


(mine's on the right)

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