Builds By Baz- Full scale Mk II Colonial Viper

That darned red light!


Can't afford to buy it? FINE THEN! I'll MAKE it. Scaled using a screenshot of the original prop and a know item that I have, (red switch). Turned on the lathe from polycarbonate rod, details melted in with soldering iron, collar is the lid off my wood glue bottle. Drilled out for a globe. I'll paint it with a red permanent marker.


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Let's go!
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That's what you can do with the right tools. Awesome job.

They have spray on translucent red paint also.
 
That point in your build when you turn to the dark side and just say, 'F it.....Ill clean up my space later.....too much fun now.'

Totally cool build!
 
Looking great! Amazing progress so what angles did you come up with for the panels? You are way ahead of me now! Will you have functioning joysticks?
 
Thanks guys.

I have left the wire and plug intact on the thruster control, so anything is possible later down the track. For now, I just want to get the thing together and looking good.

I haven't measured the angles, I just squeezed it in and cut until it fit. I can tell you that both the main instrument panel and the lower panel are both on angles, not vertical nor flat.
 
I've had no luck sourcing the panel from an old AMPEX VPR-80 video editing machine, so I've started to make it. A fellow overseas has been kind enough to run a ruler over his machine and send me the dimensions, so I've been hard at it in the shed tonight.


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The large knob is the lid of a methylated spirits bottle with a steel plate glued to the top. The small knobs I turned from wood and painted up. The screens are clear perspex sheet and the large buttons are hand cut from opaque white perspex sheet. The red one is just coloured in with a permanent marker pen. The small buttons are dressed timber, cut and hand sanded into shape.


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Full story here.

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Thanks JB. :D

With new and unprecedented reference photos now made available to me, thanks to a secret benefactor, I have decided there are some angles,shapes and sizes I can't live with. So, I stripped the instrument panel out and fixed. Never be afraid to start over and strive for perfection!


I also trimmed an old parcel shelf out of a hatchback so size for a floor. Looks professional.


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And put it all back together again. :D


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Thanks for the encouragement folks! :D

Port instrument shelf almost done in cardboard. I can't afford to fibreglass it this close to Christmas, so I'll do the starboard side next to keep myself busy.



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