It's nothing, sir. Merely a malfunction, old data.

So I bit the bullet and ordered the dome and rocker as I wrote yesterday. Now what?

One of the things I did over breakfast was show my daughter what I had purchased. She knew instantly what it was (thankfully). I told her I was thinking of setting up my workshop to build the droid in the barn, and she suggested that I use a stage area (we have used the upper area of the barn to conduct fund raisers for Haiti) to lay out my parts. Excellent idea. Later this afternoon, I
swept the area, laid out some saw horses, gathered some plywood, etc. Found a nice translucent jug that I pan on using for the Front PSI lens and the P5 Picture Panel. Got me totally stoked.

The other thing I did was buy some of the readily available dome accessories on Astromech.net.









I purchased a Resin Radar Eye, 3 resin Holoprojectors, and the resin logic surrounds. The other thing I bought was the Radar Eye Lens. In retrospect, I could have save myself 20 bucks off of a 150 dollar bill if I would have read the Wiki on the Astromech site. There is a cheap solution using the curved edge of a 2 liter Coke bottle and some black paint that would have served me fine. I am sure down the road, there will be things that twenty dollars could have gone for.

So why buy these parts now? I suppose I could have waited until the dome arrived, but something about fleshing out the externals of the Dome once it arrives, has me excited. I think it is because it will begin to take the shape of an R2 unit.

The only other thing I would like to get is an aluminum skin if one becomes available.

Cheers