You may not have known him, but R5-D8 has become much more popular since we learned that he will be getting his LEGO version in the upcoming 9493 X-Wing Starfighter set ( See high-definition images here ), where he accompanies Jek Porkins aka Red 6.
This Astromech droid's career will be short; it will manage to eject from Porkins' X-Wing before it is destroyed but will end up as mush during the explosion of the Death Star in Episode IV: A New Hope.
Hollander delivers here a beautiful version under LEGO Digital Designer [LDD] of this droid and if he decides to make available an .lxf file of this realization, you can reproduce it and have it enthroned on your desktop ... in the meantime the minifig scale version scheduled for early 2012.
To follow the progress of this project, head over to Eurobricks.
Edit of 16/10/2011: Here is the .lxf file provided by Hollander for this MOC, you can download it at this address.
