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Date: January 1, 2007
Spent another six hours on the lil feller today. Worked non stop, but not a lot to show. I guess the precision of the work I'm trying to accomplish makes things advance slowly. S'OK though, as I'm very hapy with the results so far.
Logic displays have been painted, screwed to their mounts, and attached the the boards. I believe the screen used droids then had clear resin or epoxy poured in there to seal them up, but I"m not going to do that. That way, I'll have the option of replacing the surrounds with Al ones eventually.
Also got a movie of the logic boards blinking. Truly stunning. It's actually so bright, it hurts your eyes to look directly at them.
I also had to pull R2 apart so that I could start working on the details of the feed and legs. Here's all that's left..
Here's the feet with a few detail pieces attached
The biggest thing I did that took the most time yesterday was attaching the booster covers to the legs. I had to cut a drilling template out, measure everything, drill holes in the covers, drill holes in the legs, tap the holes in the covers, custom cut screws to the right length, and clean up the holes in the legs. LOTS of work went into this process, but it all turned out really great. The booster covers only sit .02 of an inch off center.
Holes in the legs:
The booster cover with the holes and screws
An assembled leg with the painted shoulder hub in place.
That about covers it. i also did some work on the rear logic display surround, but nothing to show yet. had to mill it out again just to make it fit the shima lights, and along the way, I screwed it up a little. Nothing some putty won't fix.
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