After work today I went and got all the paint and glue supplies I would need to put my dome together after the Clone Wars Pre-release event this Saturday.
I did a final sanding on all my dome panels then washed them thoroughly. Next I put 2 coats of primer on them that I will sand on Sunday. Three of the panels I will have to glue back on the dome for now so you can not see the holes in his head.
After that I sanded and cleaned all the front door pieces for the body.
After a while Jason came over with his new C&D dome and cut some of the extra material off of it.
After helping Jason for a bit I finished gluing the front door panels together will some 3M super 77 glue.
A few hours later I hot glued the body panels into place. It may not look that great but at least the cameras wont see threw the body this weekend. LOL Once I get the dome all together I will start putting the body together the right way. I still need to take off all the hot glue strings before Saturdays movie.
After work I spent a few hours wet sanding the primer on my panels to get rid of most of the spin marks.
After a while my fellow builder friends Clay and Dash came over to work on their domes as well. First Dash cut the lower ring off of his C&D dome.
Then Dash made a template to mark out the various line heights and widths.
At the same time Clay changed his pitman motor in his droid to one with a little more speed so he can spin the dome faster.
Once we were done messing with the other two domes and my friends had left I put another coat of primer on my dome panels. With a light sanding to take the orange peel off tomorrow evening I will put the first coat of "Ithorian" brown on.
