Well…I have been doing some more research over the past couple of hours and mainly on the dome. A really good build log that I found that documented starting off the dome really well is located here.
The clear dome that we are going to be using will look a bit like this when we are finished with it:
The aluminium dome that Frank uses looks like this (with the radar eye):
Frank cleans the dome with 0000 steel wool and dish soap.
CLEAR DOME RESEARCH
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This dome has a diameter of 16 cm – it is a mini R2-D2 project. But the tutorial the guy shows is important to follow because it helps me with my dome, as he used a clear dome to start with.
In the last image, you see it is colored in. I want to have some panels that remain clear so you can sort of see the ‘inner workings’ of our droid.
A good way of making the dome look like most of it is metal is to have a sort of skin – sort of like the skins that you can find at the R2-D2 Builder’s Club.
The skin should be easy enough to make, I just need to get some metal, like aluminium. I could probably enquire on the R2-D2 Builder’s Club Forums.
R3-S6 Build Log 