That's it !! Until tomorrow !!

Sleeping Mode ??

I was pretty surprised; R2-T4 moved by itself to a freshly painted area in my bureau!

And i thought he was in sleeping mode??

Body protection

i had built the two body parts a while ago.  to get them fixed to each other, i put on some velcro on the two ends of the parts.

due to the smooth surface and the actual cold temperatures, the double sided glued tape under it falls off! this is of course not good!!

pic will follow

another problem that has to be fixed!!

Shoe issues

the ali covering parts of the shoes are making big trouble! when walking with them, the velcro (or better the double sided glued tape) gets off the shoes after a while and the ali parts are falling off!

pic will follow

i have to find another solution to get this problem fixed!

Progress on the new costume

the new costume is getting closer and closer to the finish line!

the last days were unfortunately without any progress, thanx to the xmas days. family first, you know?!

but now, the enterprise is still closed for vacation, i take a day off  (instead of cleaning, repairing, maintaining rooms and machines, etc.) to get some more work done on the chrometrooper costume!

i glued the first leg part after cutting it into the right shape for my leg/knee area.

therfore i used the german pattex kraftkleber. applying the glue onto both surfaces of the foam, waiting approximately 10 minutes and the press the two surfaces on each other.

wearing a black sport suit under the costume, i quickly found out, that some of the measurements i made in the past, weren´t that good as expected. two lower leg parts have to be rebuilt. so making a new template for them is on the agenda too!!

Nurse Droid

just making a deal with my brother about printing the head of a nurse droid (and maybe later the body when the files are available as download).

X-mas

Happy Xmas to everyone!!

Here are (some of) my presents...

This little fellow has been handmade by my daughter:

The right thing is a "Solo" calendar for 2019.

More Armor Progress

Here are the latest Pics to my Ali Armor build for the chrometrooper costume:
The modified front template for my body:

 ans the finished result:

Next the rear part of it:

Thigh

the upper leg parts have to be created too!

therefore i customized the templates to fit my legs.

pic will follow!

more ali metal work maybe tomorrow!

The butt thing

And again i had to enlarge the dimensions of the template. This time the butt sheet. Here you can see the flat ali sheet, cut out:

And the rounded part:

Great !!

the material is here!!

foam, ribbed optic, black. as i wanted it!

very light and soft. exactly what i needed!

here on the first leg:

The postman rings twice...

i hope so!

the announced delivery for this noon will bring the two yoga mats... hopefully!

more later today!

300 Blog entries

yeah! i made it! 300 blog entries.

i am working on getting the 500 mark !

Smaller

in the rear and with another diameter...

i think after looking at the picture you know what i mean...

depending on the viewing angle it doesn´t look that bad at all!

Next part

the lower leg / foot cover part in progress;

first attempt. i am not that lucky with it...

Second Shoe Cover

here it is; the second shoe cover:

Armor progress

the armor parts aren´t finished yet. there are so many parts still to build...

now i am waiting for the foam yoga mats. i hope to get them sliced into half, to get a 5 mm sheet instead of a 10 mm version, which would be far to thick for the costume. i think with a 10 mm thickness, i can´t move me legs and arms anymore. LOL

when i get everything done at work today as planned, there will be a time window of 1,5 hours this evening... time to build the second set of foot covers and maybe more.

and one more thing; my oldest daughter doens´t know a thing about it; she has the right height to wear a storm trooper armor... so i will build another set of parts for her size... the helmet is already here! it´s an anovos version from ep7:

picture will follow

Yoga mats

Yes, you saw right. Yoga Mats.
I try to use the material for the Stormtrooper / Chrometrooper costume.

Bizeps

the parts for the bizeps are done now too. here you can see the template and the finished product, which i had to lengthen for 2 inches!

Shoe Cover Parts

im comparison to the standard stormtrooper, the chrometrooper has different parts on his armor.
looking on the foot/shoe, the chromy has three additional parts:

here are two of them in the process of building.

the front part:

the sheets for the center part:

before and after:

and on the shoe:

Leg parts Part 2

the second template for the leg is ready too:

Jockstrap

here you can see the new wider template:

and pressed (using woodden parts i fabricated) in square areas without scratchy, hammered or marked areas!

First Leg part

A little more difficult was the first leg part.
Paper template and Aluminium template (Cut out raw)...

And the almost finished product:

Protection

On the Stormtrooper costume there are several changes in comparison to the Chrometrooper. So i had to make changes to the paper template. Left Chromy, right Stormy:

The final position of the square sections is another as the one paper.

Here is the first attempt, which i probably won't use:

There are too many imperfections...  :

Knee Pads

yeah!
big news!
i found some spare time to get the first parts done. the wheelie works on the knee pads were quickly done...
here is the first part aside to the flat sheet:

and here are both parts ready to be polished: 

The first two parts

...are the knee pads.

here is a pic of the template on paper:

taking a scissor and cutting it out...

and lay it on an aluminum sheet...making two sheets, one for each knee:

already cut out of the aluminum sheet

now some craft forming... tomorrow maybe

The search is over !!

with a little help from friends...

i managed to get some pdf files for the first order stormtrooper costume. a cheap thing until now. 30 bucks.

there were more than 100 sheets of A4 papers to print. this is done now. (i had to replace the black ink cartridge of my bureau printer for that! LOL)

next step is to organize two sheets of 2 m² aluminium in 1 mm thickness.

but this only one short phone call to a metal shop i am working with since years!

Captain Phasma Costume parts

i am still looking for a first order stormtrooper costume.

but prices are ranging around the 1k mark. way too much for me!

and the armor isn´t available at the moment. i found a guy doing templates for EVA foam. so i contacted him in argentina. i hope to get an answer soon.

for the armor i will not use EVA foam, it must be aluminum. i have all required machines, materials and the skills to get this done in metal instead of plastic.

so when i will have the templates from him, i can begin to build my very own captian phasma armor.

hopefully...

Two months

more than two months i haven´t posted a new blog entry.

so i thought it was time again to let you know about the latest things i did concerning r2d2, bb8 and other star wars related things.

last weekend i was off for a special cinema event next town.
it was a private screening of episode 4 in it´s original version, with horrible sound and even more horrible picture quality.
but, no new and added scenes, just pure old gold!!!!
we were a lot of fans and we had a lot of fun!

For Laurent only !!

et voilà une de mes jambes alu pour r2:

A Lot of Energy....

...is running through my veins. I want to continue on my astromech.
The oldtimer season is almost over now. More time for my other passion! Let's go!!

A visit at the metal shop

today i picked up my ali frame at the metal shop. we made some changes in the design to get less weight.

picture will follow

i hopefully will soon get a good price for the parts of the new frame version.

sorry, but that´s all at the moment folks!

i am concentrating my spare time in finishing the restoration of my wife´s beetle...

picture will follow

and i am still working on the next project; a baja bug.

picture will follow

and in between i am doing a full body restoration on a pretty rotten ´71 beetle convertible...

picture will follow

Birthday surprise

for the birthday party of my son, r2-t4 and bb8 awaited the kids (coming in two groups) to give them the task to guess, how many nuts are in the glass...

Prostreetnotch´s days off !!

the weather makes me crazy! too hot, too much humidity...
not good for me and my employee, neither for the technical equipment...
so i will take a short time out the next two days.
trying to relax a little bit...

Celebration Europe II

Long time ago...

Warner Movie Park Bottrop Troop

Due to the DSGVO, a new law concerning copyrights, adresses, names, pictures and so on, i cannot post pictures from the last troop of other people. so here is a single pic only (i don´t know these star wars nerds!! LOL):

But i can tell you it was a great day at Warner Movie Park last saturday!

We were around 150 + people having a great Cosplay day!

Have a look on the YouTube channel called Cosplay Channel!

Poe Dameron Figure

another cool gift from good friends; they brought me a poe dameron figure (as x-wing pilot). with blaster!

Temporarily stopped

the ali frame series project has been stopped for a while now. actually i have not enough builder that are interested in a budget ali frame in europe.

the second problem is the financial part; this thing is not an easy number! i have to pay forward for the making of the cad files (changes in construction) and the parts too.

on the other side i don´t want to have money from the builders up front. (problem!!)

and i want to double check, if everything is allright before offering the frames to other builders. i do not need any problems and issues with the parts and builders.

so i will order the parts for one frame for me and see, is everything is ok. then i will start the next step...

Birthday Gifts

I must have been a good boy! Because here are some of the gifts i got for my anniversary:

(Of course i will show you my star wars related stuff only!!)

50 years

BB-8 Dome building process

Set of steel feet

okay, today, it´s saturday and 4 p.m., i am still at work, i will finish the last foot for another r2 builder waiting now for a very long time...

two feet are completely welded, grinded and media blasted at least two weeks ago, but the third one had to wait. now it´s time...

and here they are, already packed and ready to be sent:

DSGVO...oder die neue datenschutzverordnung kann so bescheuert sein !!

okay, in anbetracht der erheblichen umstände, die die neue datenschutzverordnung macht, habe ich die kontaktfunktion über das kontaktformular ausgeschaltet. ihr könnt zwar einen beitrag verfassen, der wird allerdings nicht mehr verarbeitet, da er ins nirwana gesendet werden würde (keine empfängeremailadresse).
sämtliche alten geposteten beiträge von euch werden die tage gelöscht werden (müssen), um die datenschutzverordnung einzuhalten.
danke EU !

 D'accord, étant donné les circonstances importantes qui rendent la nouvelle réglementation de protection des données, j'ai désactivé la fonction de contact via le formulaire de contact. Vous pouvez écrire une contribution, mais elle ne sera plus traitée car elle sera envoyée au nirwana (pas d'adresse e-mail du destinataire).

tous les anciens messages postés par vous seront (doivent) être supprimés les jours pour se conformer à la réglementation de protection des données.

merci EU!

 okay, given the significant circumstances that make the new data protection regulation, I have turned off the contact function via the contact form. You can write a contribution, but it will not be processed anymore because it would be sent to nirwana (no recipient email address).

all old posts posted by you will be (have to) be deleted the days to comply with the data protection regulation.

thanks EU!

está bien, dadas las circunstancias importantes que hacen que la nueva regulación de protección de datos, he desactivado la función de contacto a través del formulario de contacto. Puede escribir una contribución, pero ya no se procesará porque se enviará a nirwana (sin dirección de correo electrónico del destinatario).

todas las publicaciones antiguas publicadas por usted serán (tendrán que) eliminarse los días para cumplir con la regulación de protección de datos.

gracias EU!

Solo - A Star Wars Story

what can i say?!
i really like this film!

great action and fun in a used universe, with a lot of new droids (congrats to lee towersey and oliver steeples!!) and some hints to other films (episode 5 for example; the helmet lando calrissian has worn in jabba´s palace or the crystal skull from the last indiana jones movie).

one funny thing right in the beginning; the speeder han stole was looking to me like the rear of a 63 ford thunderbird...

and here is the speeder in the chasing scene...

And did you reckognize the shoulder section of lando's droid companion L3?
I think it´s a smaller version of a r2 upper leg/shoulder section! (plus rounded on top of the horseshoe) Funny!!

When you have a great troop...

Putzteufel

heute wird geputzt und aufgeräumt! dringend nötoig ist es mal wieder!
meine beiden mitarbeiter sind fleissig dran. aber auch ich bin nicht untätig.

die tour zum galvaniker und zur post habe ich schon durch, ebenso zum billig discounter, um noch weitere stauboxen zur aufbewahrung meiner unmengen von teilen zu holen. auch hier heißt es vorreinigen, sortieren, für das strahlen oder die galvanik vorbereiten, usw.... .

Blutspende Marathon Solingen 2018

BB-8 is ready to go the blood spending marathon at the local theatre tomorrow!

If i only could find the time...

it could be so nice...

i have a big bunch of lasercut ali sheets to get some feet, some ankles, some battery boxes and some legs built.

if i only could find the time to do them...
but there is a longer waiting list.

on the to do list is a 1969 jaguar e type coupé, a volkswagen beetle convertible from 1971 and a volkswagen beetle sedan from 1967.

they are all completely junk... but my customers want them to be restored.

so my ali r2 has to wait...again!!!

Finally there...

the parts are here! finally!!

now it´s up to me to get the channels bended and then welded into the feet shells.