Kenner Vintage R2-D2 Artoo Deetoo Star Wars Figure

Summary

Having just made a replacement R2 head for my broken vintage x-wing, I really wanted to print out a whole droid. After all, Kenner never gave us any different droids than the R2-D2 and R4 figures and I wanted to expand my collection. I found scans of droid figures from McFlunky and others for sale, but they didn't look very crisp in detail, or didn't fit the Kenner theme, and I certainly didn't want to pay for it.

Then I came across falcon_gt4 (https://www.thingiverse.com/falken_gt4/designs) design and printed it. See this for the Astrometric droid body: (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3466148) and it looked great, but was still missing a few details as well as being about 2mm shorter than an actual figure. The arms fit into the body on a 2mm bearing which broke as soon as I looked at them. So, I started from scratch and modeled this one after an actual Kenner figure.

I had to increase the size of the arm bearing to 4mm from 2mm in diameter, simplified the retaining ring (so it doesn't "click" - sorry) and created the details around the arms and tapered the body like the original.

You'll need to glue the post into the bottom of the head and then find a screw and washer to screw it into the body from the bottom - just like the original! I recommend pre-threading the post by screwing and unscrewing repeatedly, or just printing it in PLA instead of resin so that it doesn't crack when screwing it in.

I modeled this for resin printing, as it's really too small for FDM, but anything is possible these days.

Print Settings

• Printer brand:

  Creality

• Printer:

  HALOT ONE

• Supports:
  Yes
• Resolution:
  .05
• Infill:
  hollow, 10%
• Filament brand:

  Any

• Filament color:

  any

• Filament material:

  Resin

• Notes:

  Don't forget to hollow your models before slicing!
  I printed these with flat surfaces directly on the buildplate with supports only for the arms and middle leg. learn how to customize your supports to move them away from the feet for better finishing and less breaking after processing. The bottom of the barrel also required custom supports around the rim to print correctly.

Post-Printing