Re: Classic MPC C-3PO and R2-D2 uber detail build

I've been dealing with the body for the past couple of days and I finally got it solved.  Major pain in the butt when you have to glue, clamp, let it completely cure, then glue again, clamp again, completely cure, etc... did that about 10 times until the body finally held together properly.  But it's holding a good shape and I've doing little stuff while the glue sets.  First off, I got the nut in for the foot.  This is the anchor for the bolt to attach it to the base.

After the body had hardened enough I was finally able to get some work done on the bottom indentions and the shoulder joints.  The bottom indentions are near the base under the side vent.  These little indentions I cut out (and really wish I hadn't because it meant cutting off a main support for the body halves and turns out I didn't need to).  I glued a couple of peices of sheet styrene behind the holes I had made and then using my Magic Sculpt (for those of you who haven't heard of this stuff... Milliput is about the same thing), I flattened out the indentions and let it cure.  I also used the sculpting clat as a putty to fill in the body seams.  You can tell the seams are pretty bad.  That's just a peice of black tape to hold the front door shut while I worked.

When those where hard I began working on the shoulder joints.  Where the body and legs meet.  It was pointed out to me awhile back that the joints where too small on the model) and it has been eating at me ever since.  I've looked at just about every kind of thing I could use for these things from old marker bodys to small diameter PVC pipes.  Nothing I could find would work.  It was either the wrong size, or the walls were too thin or too thick.  So using my sculpting clay I began to shape the joints.  Turns out, I was right and came up with a pretty good joint.  Using the leg as a guide helped make the joints fit perfectly.

After the joints cured I wrapped the joint in bare metal foil and the final outcome looks fantastic!

Well that's all for now... more to come!  Lemme know whatcha think!