the body is an old military inspection lamp with a very thick glass dome and a heavy aluminium collar,
the head inside is made from an old sodastream co2 bottle.
Thursday, 20 March 2008
johnny rocket pants first look
the body is an old military inspection lamp with a very thick glass dome and a heavy aluminium collar,
the head inside is made from an old sodastream co2 bottle.
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
johnny rocket pants
just started work on johnny rocket pants, a conversation with a friend of mine about red dwarf sparked this one off.
Friday, 7 March 2008
Monday, 3 March 2008
a few final touches still to do but its almost there i added some rivet detail to the bands and did a bit of weathering.
the boot eyelet on the side of the dome was taken out and replaced with a brass and copper lens arrangement, this was fabricated from bits of tube with a tiny domed glass lens at the tip.
finally got rid of the ugly steel rail on the left hand side and replaced it with a water level glass, more like the one in the original illustration.
i also found some tiny glass ampules, the bases of which made excellent glazing for the big lens and the steam gauges, i never really liked the plastic ones they were just somehow wrong.
i used a dremmel to grind the lenses they were a devil to get right
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the boot eyelet on the side of the dome was taken out and replaced with a brass and copper lens arrangement, this was fabricated from bits of tube with a tiny domed glass lens at the tip.
finally got rid of the ugly steel rail on the left hand side and replaced it with a water level glass, more like the one in the original illustration.
i also found some tiny glass ampules, the bases of which made excellent glazing for the big lens and the steam gauges, i never really liked the plastic ones they were just somehow wrong.
i used a dremmel to grind the lenses they were a devil to get right
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Sunday, 2 March 2008
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