Thanks hanns
So here is another update as to what I'm up to.
In the spring, ISY had a "custom droid" contest. Once I was about a week away from finishing my entry, after a long time planning it out, work caught up to me until the last few weeks or so.
I had a bunch of R4-P44 parts lying around, and decided to use him as part of the base.
I didn't want it to just be a repaint, so I thought, perhaps I will figure out what job he could do, and then design some add-ons to fit with that function. Like, for example, C-3pO, he's an ettique droid, so him being gold and human-like makes sense. R2 is designed to fit into a ship, or to fix things, hense the size and arms, etc.
I thought about making him a port security droid, kind of a Star Wars version of the body scanners I see at the airport all the time. It also kind of fits with my preferences in customizing, I'm more into making the average, non-armed vehicles and civilian Star Wars items.
So I went to the closest hobby shop to buy some more paints, as I knew I wanted this droid to be red. The shop is mostly railroad and WWII military focused, and always has SF kits for really cheap.
I found this strange eastern european made kit:
...and combined some random parts together with a Space Satellite/station model kit together to form his shell and body.
I added sensors and all sorts of stuff before I had to stop, and I'm hoping to finish it really soon, it just needs details, like panel colors, and some more holes and such filled.
I also started to make another speeder last week, this time from Anakin's hot rod.
I'm going to add some parts and stuff as I go, more working on the frame and engines now.
I'm replacing the engines with these cool satellite parts, and figuring out how I'm going to mount everything.