This blog tracks and displays my R2-D2 building progress! Made almost entirely of aluminum, the goal is to build an autonomous, PC powered robot that will "act" like the R2-D2 we all know from the movies!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Finishing up the styrene pocket vent
Now that the chrome-painted pieces are dry, I gently held them into place and hot-glued them into position.
(In hindsight, this was a bad idea...the paint was still soft so the clamps left impressions on it.)
I had to trim the back panel a bit so that it would fit within the skin opening...
Here you can see I went a bit heavy with the adhesive to hold in the back piece.
And here is the finished piece.
I couldn't resist seeing how it fits in the skins...