Ben's Miniature Gallery

R5 Droid (part 1) added Sep 23, 2005
I've got the sculpting bug now, so I decided to fill one of the other gaps in the Star Wars game. We have an old R5 droid, but I have no droid minis. Compared to a humanoid, an astromech droid is really not much of a challenge. I built the main body around a wooden skewer. I had originally intended to add a separate head, but the body ended up a little tall, so I just sculpted the head on top of it. I tried adding tiny pieces of wire for the droid's eyes, but that ended up being more trouble than it was worth. I may still try to add some out of putty after the rest is cured, but for now little holes will have to do. I tried to get the details on the body as close as I could to the reference picture I had.
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