Catching the bug...

OK, somewhere in the back of my mind, I had always wanted to own a full-sized R2-D2. The closest I had ever come to realizing that dream was a chrome trashcan with a domed top.

All that changed when I happened to meet someone who was already started on his droid construction. I saw the laser-cut dome with all the knock-out panels and the laser-cut skins for the body, all in gleaming aluminum and I was incurably hooked.

I had to do this.