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Michael Baddeley R2D2 files:
https://www.patreon.com/mrbaddeley
Wall and infill settings taken from the "Print Guide for R2-D2 v1.2" found here:
https://www.printed-droid.com/files/

No audio in this video because it was taken on our back patio and the neighbors dog starts barking with every noise:(

First is the skirt that I primed today. I thought I'd be able to do it yesterday but I forgot that there are pins that hold the bolts in place and I wanted to make sure they were flush with the inside skirt walls, even though nobody will see the area unless they're laying on the ground.

Next is the 3 pieces that make up the left leg. The upper shoulder, lower shoulder and lower leg. It took about 61 hours to print the leg. I've now started on the last piece of the right leg. I have not started to file and sand the pieces so they fit together, I'm just printing them out for now.

Yesterday I primed the body ring 1. My main concern was getting a good coat on the bottom. When I had about the best coat I thought I could get, I used the rest of the spray can on the rest of the ring. After letting the fumes clear for several hours outside, I brought the piece into the garage. I took it outside for the video but haven't done a close inspection to see how well the first primer layer turned out.

Last is the back panel piece of the body ring 2. Yesterday I put a thin coat of glazing putty on it to raise the low areas between the layer lines before priming. Today I sanded the excess off.

On the printer side of things, my Prusa is not behaving. It's acting as though it has a clogged nozzle or extruder problem. I've only been able to get a few good prints out of it in the past 2 days of trying to figure out what the problem is. For now it's totally unreliable for printing PLA, which stinks because I have quite a few small parts to print and was counting on the Prusa to be more reliable than my Tevo Tornado. As of now, this is not the case.