Hello from a Lafayette Droid Builder
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:21 pm
Hi all,
I'm Ben Black from Lafayette.
Some of you might have seen me way back at MechaCon '12 when I presented my first venture into animatronics, GLaDOS (Portal 2) and later Wheatley the following year.
StarWars-wise? I'd say Starwars was the first movie I learned to quote, lol, so I guess I was a fan from the get-go!
It has played a definate role in my current career pursuit as a consumer/medical robotics engineer (think Luke's hand and the DaVinci Robot).
Since learning that Builders Club members Oliver Steeples and Lee Towers were actually working with Disney on set, I started the huge undertaking of building a 1:1 scale R2-D2 by Builder's Club standards; about 2 years into it so far. (Typical time to complete is a little over 3)
While I'm some way off from completing him (hope to be done by Ep IX), it would be a privilage to be of service during troops with what I do have:
Out of all the extra parts from the project, I've built a more Imperial-friendly MSE-6 (Seen here for the first time at LACC'17).
To go along with the droid, I intend to make an Imperial Mechanical Crewman's outfit.
I'll put a view of my current R2-D2 work up on the WIP section soon.
For the Rebel Legion, I'll be working on TFA Luke's outfit as well.
Hope to see ya'll soon!
I'm Ben Black from Lafayette.
Some of you might have seen me way back at MechaCon '12 when I presented my first venture into animatronics, GLaDOS (Portal 2) and later Wheatley the following year.
StarWars-wise? I'd say Starwars was the first movie I learned to quote, lol, so I guess I was a fan from the get-go!
It has played a definate role in my current career pursuit as a consumer/medical robotics engineer (think Luke's hand and the DaVinci Robot).
Since learning that Builders Club members Oliver Steeples and Lee Towers were actually working with Disney on set, I started the huge undertaking of building a 1:1 scale R2-D2 by Builder's Club standards; about 2 years into it so far. (Typical time to complete is a little over 3)
While I'm some way off from completing him (hope to be done by Ep IX), it would be a privilage to be of service during troops with what I do have:
Out of all the extra parts from the project, I've built a more Imperial-friendly MSE-6 (Seen here for the first time at LACC'17).
To go along with the droid, I intend to make an Imperial Mechanical Crewman's outfit.
I'll put a view of my current R2-D2 work up on the WIP section soon.
For the Rebel Legion, I'll be working on TFA Luke's outfit as well.
Hope to see ya'll soon!