Moved the youtube videos

I know my links/videos are embedded, but we're moving the youtube stuff to it's own L3-G0 channel, http://youtube.com/myL3G0

Apparently throwing in all the Lego and Sci-Fi stuff scared away all our subscribers (yes, both of them) that just wanted cat and disaster videos.  Since a half million views are of the storm and only 150 for L3-G0, it seemed prudent to separate them.  (Feel free to get L3-G0 up to that level, I won't mind).

Likes and subscribing are good too :)

Building Session Three

Well, something about having to work, so I didn't get daily updates.  Instead the bits are interrupted and built over a few days.

We still don't have all of the parts, so there's a few holes to fill in the results, but there's a good start on the skirt (under the body), the very top of the dome (I thought I had all the parts, but it's missing a little gray ring), and the legs.

Worked on the skirt first (daughter realized it's his butt, what do you expect from a teenager?)  Unfortunately we're missing a bunch of the "wing" pieces to round out the edges :(

It's also a bit "wobbly" because the hinges let it bend, but that'll get fixed later.  Even so, I think it's looking pretty good.  (Photos are with the skirt upside down).



I thought I had all of the parts for the tippy top of the dome (above the pie plates), so I figured I'd whip that out in about 10 seconds.  Unfortunately I'm still waiting for a little ring on the very top.  (Hopefully tomorrow).  I was able to use the flying saucer or whatever they're called parts for this part of the dome.  The angles and sizes matched surprisingly well for that.

More successfully I worked on the legs.  Again, some parts are missing, but I got further, including some complicated stuff.  Obviously they're incomplete, but I'm reasonably happy with the detail.

 

One thing I realized looking at a photo of a real R2 is that my legs seem a bit tall.  I was expecting them to attach to the plate on top of the ankle, but the distance between the notch and the bottom seems longer than on the real photo.

 

Coincidentally, the R2 builders group had a thread today that mentioned "standard" and "extended" legs.  I wonder if I followed plans for "extended"?  Clearly there's some measuring in my future to make sure I get them the right height.

 

Top is missing some of the slopes to make the recess rounded (it's a pretty complex curve), but here's the top so far.  Hopefully the slopes come today:

Time Lapse of Phase 3 Building:

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...



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

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.

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.

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