Tennant Sonic Screwdriver

[Risu]

A friend and I started planning to make a sonic from aluminum on a lathe with the toy electronics inside, but we need some good reference images. Can anybody post some really high res pics of Tennant's screwdriver? Also, it would help a great deal if I could get that picture everybody uses to make Eccleston's. I've heard it's a scan and it's to scale, but the only way I've been able to find it is in the background behind other people's sonics. If somebody could help me out I'd really appreciate it. I look forward to sharing our progress here.

 

[Coz]

Hope these help!
C.

 

[silverskyes402]

Incredible pics of the inside of the sonic, someone should make a cutaway version like they do with lighsabers!

 

[Risu]

Holy crap, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks! Could you possibly tell me in what ways Tennant's differs from Eccleston's?

 

[Primrodo]

Mostly in colour and the tubes wire colours, otherwise its pretty much the same.

 

[Tom Starkiller]

Ecclestons didn't extend. That was one of the features of the toy that got carried to Tennants prop due to useing the same moulds as the toy. (The Prop that Eccleston used was very flimsy and kept breaking.)

 

[DoctorWho]

Ecclestons didn't extend. That was one of the features of the toy that got carried to Tennants prop due to useing the same moulds as the toy. (The Prop that Eccleston used was very flimsy and kept breaking.)

This is not true.
Eccleston's was flimsy but it did extend. Here is screen caps of Eccleston talking about it in a interview.

The last pic is of the Eccleston sonic screwdriver showing the slider.

 

[DexAntares]

The TARDIS Index Wiki has similar cross-section pics for the Classic, Ninth/Tenth Screwdriver, River Song's version, the Sonic Pen, and the Laser Screwdriver. But I haven't seen the Eleventh's yet, and this is my first time seeing that particular Tenth cross-section above. Anybody got any clearer pics?

 

[greatwazoo42]

I know that the BBC Prop shop gave up on trying to make the tilting head work but I'm holding out hope that someone does an "ultimate" version that will have it. The best way I could figure it is to make the ball mount two halves with a friction washer in between to avoid droopage.

Mount the right half of the ball to the body and the left to the head and pin them together and PWOOF! Tiltable head. You can run the wiring through the mounting pin area.

That and they never did incorporate the glow strip into the body for the adjustment sensor either. It would have been a nice touch. With lumicloth and other paper thin glowies out these days that shouldn't be too far off the charts for an ultimate version either.

 

[DexAntares]

I know that the BBC Prop shop gave up on trying to make the tilting head work but I'm holding out hope that someone does an "ultimate" version that will have it. The best way I could figure it is to make the ball mount two halves with a friction washer in between to avoid droopage.

Like an action figure swivel joint. I think the early Buzz Lightyear toys had a joint like that, with wires threaded through part of it for the laser emitter LED.

 

[greatwazoo42]

Bingo!

 

[NTBBCPD]

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[greatwazoo42]

Holy crow! That's awesome!!!

 

[NTBBCPD]

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[greatwazoo42]

Holy cow that's awesome! I want one!

 

[johnny5676]

do you plan on oing the claw/stand end cap

 

[DexAntares]

A split bearing joint is a lot stronger and easier to feed wires through.

..see the details attached..

I have been working on a version based on BBC production drawings.

Tail, handle, handle cap and plexi shaft are all completed.

Mow working on the pivot and emitter.

Risu, If you need help with measurements PM me.


Ed

That's beautiful!! Absolutely beautiful work! Dude, please check your notes. I sent you one a while back, and I have some more questions to ask, but I don't want to do so in this thread. I find your work very impressive, and I'd love to discuss some ideas.

 

[GeneralFROSTY]

Me wants one!!!:love

 

[plainmaster0404]

I believe the second picture posted is an MFX Replica
those are the best ones out there
if you want accurate but not perfect measurements, get a wand company tennant sonic
they actually scanned tennant's own prop

I want to make one too, but don't have the money for it.
sad me
I also (when I heard of it) WANT an MFX sonic simply because it is a 100% perfect replica (except for the paint, which cannot be accurately copied)
I can hardly find one
and I hate how they only made 500 of them
(although, the original guy who painted the prop painted all 500 of them)

someone should make a kit with the metal and glass/acrylic pieces. so you still have to add the electronics and paint but get mostly the whole sonic with some assembly required
also this would allow you to make one that has or hasn't a sound chip.
maybe a tv-b-gone
and someone could make the blue strip clear so someone can place a little light behind it
and Maybe one kit with the swivel head bits so that someone may make it swivel

sort-of, building on the ultimate version idea

 

[Primrodo]

You resurrected a 3.5 year old thread for all that the Wand Company Sonic does.

Need to go back and do some more reading I think.


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