My Gerry Anderson Tribute

[Kallisti]

Back in late December, one of the greats of TV entertainment passed away. As a tribute, I interrupted my current project and had to build something appropriate:

which was a kit I picked up at Telford last year. As usual for Imai models, they HAD to turn it into a toy by adding missiles that could be fired from under the wings! Needless to say, I removed this "feature" and tried to add some flashing warning lights to the wingtips using flashing LEDs. The result was this:

To be brutally honest, the paintwork could be better - had problems with the masking due to the panel lines - er trenches and the fit of some of the pieces. The LED lighting doesn't really show up very well unless you are at a particular angle - ie edge on to the wing

HIdden under the "clouds" are the batteries but even though I beefed them up to 12v, the LEDs still don't show up very well.

The LEDs:

Fibre optics to illuminate the wing lights - I think the main problem is there just isn't enough fibres

I can't honestly say this is one of my better builds sadly...

[Norman]

Really nice

Great tribute to a great man

Well done

[AnonymousDFB1]

Please bring this to Smallspace if your coming.

[Kallisti]

I'll think about it - along with Stingray and the Silver medal winning Starfury

By that time I might even have done one of the other Gerry Anderson models I've picked up recently: Imai SPV, Cloudbase, MSV, Angel, UFO Mobile, Joe 90 Car

I want to build a small Gerry Anderson exhibition of my own eventually...

[John Laidlaw]

Yup, I like that . The base is very creative, too .

Edited February 14, 2013 by John Laidlaw

[Jabberwocky]

A fine tribute indeed. I look forward to seeing this.

[Riggers]

WOW!! Cool, very cool................

ATB

[martinj]

fine tribute and a lovely job