Introducing King Arthur!!

I've been working on a mouse droid since Christmas after collecting some parts over the summer.  I guarantee it's much easier to build than an R2 unit.  This is a fun little project with an RJ series race car chassis, a full-scale shell, and lots of IC chips that I pushed into a perf board while watching the Super Bowl.

A little backstory to his name:  a friend of mine called it Arthur, thinking that the PBS kid show was about a family of mice.  It took me a few days to realize what he was talking about.  No, it's a family of aardvarks.  But I like the name Arthur, and since he's full sized, I renamed him King Arthur (KA for short).  I then went to work on some cool graphics for racing stripes.  I came up with Excaliber with flames coming out.  I know I have some work to do with it (I just printed it on plain paper in color, cut out the image, and taped it on).  I want the sword to be longer, the flames to wrap around, and have it a vinyl sticker (not taped on).  For what I did in a couple hours I think it looks pretty good.  He probably won't win races, but he'll sure look good trying!

King Arthur



The Flaming Excaliber



Don't you just love his blue mouse tail?  It's the receiver antenna.

 

Until next time,

Jawa Jaka (playing with her mouse)



 

New banners and name

Foolish phb forums won't let me post pics directly from my laptop, so I gotta post everything here then copy and paste the URL of my pics.  Silly really, but not much I can do.  Men design the strangest coding and make life a little complicated.  OK, enough of my rant.

What I really want to post is that I'm excited to finally recieve the new MSR2 banners, cards, and... MAGNETS!  Yes, magnets for special people (like ultra fans and members).  And we changed our name to Mountain States Droid Builders (because we can, and because we have R2's, R4's, mouse droids, gonks, and one heck of a Droideka!!  So, drumroll please....  our new cards (banner and magnets are the same, and I got a blue banner with reversed colors):

 

 

Pretty nift, huh?

Until next time,

Jawa Jaka (enjoying the new banners and cards)