R2 Meeting The Public At OSFest

Our local builders club, The Rebel Legion, and The 501st Central Garrison stop for a break in the lobby for a picture.

Clay's R2-C2 goes out into the crowd to meet people.

Not to be outdone, R2-CM does a round of Meet and Greet.

R2-C2 and R2-CM meet for a combined appearance.

My First Con

OSFest is my first convention. Lynelle, Moose, and I made sure we were at the convention early so we had enough time to organize and assemble our R2s.

Wow! We brought a lot of stuff. We were in the back corner of the dealers' room next to the 501st and Rob Carmichael of the Rebel Legion.

The AC was broke on Friday, so the flow of people through the area was pretty light; but that didn't stop the kids from getting excited about R2.

Wittling Away At The Frame

Moose and I got together tonight to work on the frame again. We cut the channel in the front upright boards to accept the base board used to space out the large dataport, cut dados in the skin mount boards, and routed out the channels on the leg support boards to accept the skin mount boards.

With all the support boards cut (not glued) the frames are really strong. We couldn't help but treat them like Tinker Toys and stack them.

Frame Leg Supports

Moose, Jason (maverickphotoguy), and I worked on routing out the channels in the upper and lower plates that hold the boards for the leg supports. The templates we were using were wrong, so the job took a lot longer than expected. We finally got all the boards routed for the four frames and the frames loosely put back together.

My Skins Arrived!

My skins arrived today and they look great! Now if only I can find some time to finish my frame then it might acutually look like I'm building an R2.