L3-G0 the Lego R2-D2

Monday, August 26, 2013

On to Day 2...

Day 2 building L3-G0. Mostly finished the center foot, except a few parts are missing (still on order), which is part of why the corner edges don't fit as nice as they eventually will.

Also the center ankle cylinders (back one's also missing some parts). And a tiny bit of the dome, which was missing a lot of parts so I decided to come back to that later. The dome edge will need a little rework, and it's got me wondering a bit about how I'm going to fit it to my bearing.

There's a Day 2 Time Lapse Video too...

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Starting the build!

Not all of the parts are in yet, but there's some stuff I can start on, so here's the results of day one constructing L3-G0.

First I worked on the Holoprojectors (they go on his dome) because I thought I had all the parts. Turns out I'm short the curved pieces on the bottom, so the white will need replaced with gray when it arrives. The funny colored plates are just to hold the HP together until it gets on the dome.

Also notice how the top right holoprojector is pivoted? That caused a bit of extra work, it would've been easy to make them stick straight out, but the real ones were made from those vent things on an airplane that point in different directions, so I wanted to keep the ability to move them. That caused some extra work.

In addition to the holoprojectors, I started on the feet. For the main feet I did what I'm calling the "footprint", before it starts angling. For the front center foot I got most of the front and back, and some of the sides done.

Time Lapse Video of Day 1 Construction

-Shawn

Friday, August 23, 2013

We've got brick!!!!!!!!!!!

We've got brick!!!!!!!!!!! The mailman's a bit impressed. This is JUST ONE DAY's delivery, only 18 packages of 52.

And when you get bricks, you have to sort :( Thanks Jaron for the sorting boxes!

As of today we have enough to start building, but we're still waiting on 6 packages, so available parts will guide what we start building with.

Also a few packages were short a couple bricks (we're still above 99.9% accuracy, but when you order 13 thousand bricks I guess a few are going to be short). So I've updated the parts needed list if you have a few bricks in great shape to spare.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Ordering Parts

Wow, ordering parts is hard. L3-G0 needs about 15,005 parts. It took two days stumbling around bricklink to order approximately 13 thousand parts (we had a few thousand lying around home).

We ended up placing 52 orders (one with Lego themselves). We're still short a few bricks, click to see the list.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Other Lego MOCs

I wanted this to be all about L3-G0, however it occurs to me that its not easy to find out about our other MOCs, so here are some links.

* http://ourrandombits.blogspot.com/ - Disorganized posts including other Lego MOCs
* http://www.youtube.com/shawnlara - Disorganized YouTube channel with MOCs (don't tell google that you clicked on the ads for me).

Our Lego Space Needle:

http://ourrandombits.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-space-needle-was-destroyed-again.html
http://youtu.be/TIX5zC-na1A

Our Lego Disney Wonder Cruise Ship:

(Cool story)
http://ourrandombits.blogspot.com/2012/12/LegoWonderCruiseShipPage1.html
http://youtu.be/npljfpINL70

Thanks for helping!

Thanks to the Bricklink sellers I got parts from, ordering ten thousand parts is tough! Special thanks for these sellers for helping with discounts. My costs are still unmanageable, but every bit helps!

Also thanks to those that provided some bricks:

JR Tyner
Laurel Lee
Merelee Knott
Bernie

(There's a list of tough bricks still if you want to help).

Thanks to Jaron Kelley from SEALUG or providing sorting boxes!!!

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Thanks for Helping!

Thanks to everyone I got parts and other help from.

The following Bricklink sellers helped, ordering ten thousand parts is tough! Special thanks for these sellers for helping with discounts. My costs are still unmanageable, but every bit helps!