Aliens Sentry Gun (camera?) prop part ID help

[ghostryder]

Helping a fellow board member with a project - does anyone recognize any of the camera bits or other parts used in the top mounted "laser tracker device" mounted to the top of the Sentry Gun seen here:

 

[gyoung2993]

I cant ,but I wish I had the computer system program for those sentry guns ......would love to have one of those......by the way hello Willie........long time its Guy Young...
sorry I couldnt help ,but I couldnt resist ,love that gun......

 

[Mr Webber]

Maybe it can be traced back to the SteadyCam swing arm used.

I have a version of that Sentry program, cant remember who put it together or where i got it, maybe someone here?. If someone doesnt chime in with the link to it, PM me your email.

 

[postmanpat]

There was originally a prop built camera lens on the top which was supplied by Pinewood Studios, alas this was returned to them after filming and lost forever.

From the following link below. Might help a bit;

Prop Store - Ultimate Movie Collectables

 

[Death Grin]

Wow! Great pictures!

My first thoughts were 1:1 Paintball or BB gun functioning replicas. Ok, maybe they couldn't track & shoot, but imagine a remote control that hooked up to a working wireless camera set up on your roof! No more yelling at kids to get off your lawn, no more "Mister, do you want to buy some candy, wrapping paper, or whatever?" No local politicians knocking on your door. No "missionaries" knocking on your door. Imagine blasting away at the humans who walk their dogs and let them crap on your lawn and don't pick up after them. Pow, pow, pow! Not just head shots to those people, but ear shots! Sorry, I got so carried away. :$

 

[Chevyh0tr0d]

Wow! Great pictures!

your door. No "missionaries" knocking on your door. Imagine blasting away at the humans who walk their dogs and let them crap on your lawn and don't pick up after the

I managed to chase all of the missionaries out of my old apartment building, by simply running around with my empty ar 15 over my head in my boxers screaming "Where is my Lithum". After doing this twice, once to Jehova's Witnesses and some scienctologists, never saw another missionary knocking on my or any door in my apartment building.

Of course the Police were non to happy about it. I guess my neighbors never ratted me out, since I got rid of them. Because the police never bothered me about it, besides to ask "if I had seen anyone carrying a gun".

 

[Death Grin]

I apologize for side-tracking the topic. Bump for part ID help.

 

[kitbasher]

I recognize The longish rectangular part on the control box thing that sits on the floor behind the gun... It's the main body of the Hasegawa 1/72 Leopold (also called "Anzio Annie") WWII railgun model kit. This kit has been used extensively by FX model makers to detail spaceships and other sci-fi objects. Here's a link to the kit-- the part in question is in the last photo:

Britmodeller.com > Leopold German Railway Gun

'basher

 

[ghostryder]

Thanks 'basher, that's awesome...

 

[noble]

These kind of high constrast photos help to get the ball rolling.



I'd start looking at old Film cameras...

The tank probably could be fabricated from plastruct parts.

That one part definitely looks like a plumbing fixture with some plastic strips
glued on top of it.



They recycle a lot of parts. Remember Mike Rush's sulaco lever build?

I'm pretty sure that same TV grille is used in Ripley's video telephone in her
Gateway apartment.

 

[ghostryder]

Wow, that's awesome - thanks Matt!

 

[darcjedi]

Crazy thought time... anyone consider that the main body might just be another obscure power tool casing? Just an idea but they did do it for the motion tracker.

and in the third pic down, the part at the top rear of the "camera" looks like some sort of handle or grip.

 

[ob1al]

Could the 'plumbing fitting' be a plastic slip joint nut for baths?

Also the 'pressure tank' might be a cylindrical cistern ball float with a section of upvc drain pipe pushed onto it:

You can clearly see that the hoop around the ball float is a separate piece in this pic:

 

[noble]

oblong ball float:

McMaster-Carr

looks like a possibility!


and I think the piece behind the camera lens is another plumbing part.

 

[ob1al]

Yes, it looks like a good candidate. I'm guessing the prop makers visited a local hardware place and grabbed a trolley full of plumbing parts.

The more I look at the round piece the more sure I am it's a plastic slip joint nut, approx 1.5" diameter, with a painted (or taped) front piece added to it.