Monday 5 March 2018

Kitbashing gadgets

With the larger computer equipment either nearing the end of construction or waiting for decent weather to be painted I decided to do some kitbashing.

As these are intended for a 1970s style Doctor Who photostory I thought what better than a typical Fourth Doctor device tinkered together to thwart the menace, or to at least confuse them a little.  To that end I dug out an old small scale Bandai Gundam kit that I knew had some interesting-looking parts in it... and came up with this.  Needs a box unit to sit on but looks okay at the moment.





This is made from landing feet, a small cog piece, landing legs and a gun turret from the mecha kit and an old Dragon Thompson SMG drum magazine.
When painted this will be mostly brass and dull steel.

Next up is a general piece of tracking room equipment.  It serves no purpose other than to look busy and visually interesting - much like most Doctor Who tech of the day.
This was made from an old broken Tommy Gunn field radio, a scratchbuilt speaker, a loop antenna from something or other and some detailing.  Still need knobs on the main body of the unit.

As it will be from a military source it will be dark green.





There also needs to be cabling and a power cord for this unit, as well as a microphone as I suddenly have the urge to have it as a communications unit... well it was a radio set originally.

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