Re: Full Size K9 Scratch built

Posted by Umboman on Oct 03, 2010; 7:36pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Full-Size-K9-Scratch-built-tp5563822p5596910.html

I have the 1979 BBC Dr Who Special magazine which contains plans to build a full size dalek & I still have the templates to build K9-I am going to give a copy of them to the Scrapstore in Chippenham:www.wiltsplay.org.uk.If anyone one has any unwanted modelling bits & pieces they do not want & cannot sell,then they will be pleased to accept donations.K9 is easy enough to make,just glue & pin the templates together onto wooden batons/frame.                                                                   The head,ears,neck & recesses were the trickiest.........................Ingredients:2 magnetic pick ups(tail/eyes),calculator,2 handles,drainage pipe for neck,tartan collar/ribbon,clear perspex painted red,round conduit for the nose(with metal gun insert),2 syringes in the head to hold the ears(coat hanger wire,aluminium car mesh,cocktail stick & 3 dental toothbrush rings),slot in the mouth foth the (tongue) computer printout,Satellite dish(nose) is the end from a dishwasher rinse aid bottle,calculator on the back,grey insulation for hot/cold water pipes(bumpers on the base),4 wheels off an office chair found in a skip & lastly tv screen & K9 lettering cut out by jigsaw.
      Wood obtained from a skip on Washington Road on the Westbury Trading Estate outside Stairway Joinery for free!Neck from a building site-otherwise you have to buy a 3m length from the building suppliers.The only thing I bought was the grey insulation pipe & the 2 magnetic pick ups.The back of the head was infilled with thick pieces of wood roughly cut to shape then uniformly rounded off with a belt sander & finished off with decorators filler mixed with pva.Painted with Dulux weathershield Grey exterior primer because:1/ I had some in the garage & 2/ it was near enough to his colour.
    I tried selling him with no luck,so donated him to Hearing Dogs for the Deaf & they sold him to raise cash for the charity to a Dr Who fan at a show.Built over 2 years when I was ill,should only take 1-2 months?