What do you all do? Curious about Scout buyers occupations, or former occupations.

[cyure]

Ooh now there’s a Pandora’s box lol - here are a few The TARDIS photos are a few years old, it’s not water cooled anymore so those hoses and copper colored radiator are gone but otherwise still looks similar.View attachment 15947View attachment 15949View attachment 15950View attachment 15951View attachment 15952View attachment 15953

Wow.

 

[Artoo]

Thanks! Here’s another couple shots - unlike the film model which only has the right hand side finished (and the top and back but those weren’t ever visible til the Special Edition films), mine is the whole thing, with an interior. That second shot was when I pulled out the old 120+ LEDs I’d used and replaced them with a strip LED.

 

[cyure]

Thanks! Here’s another couple shots - unlike the film model which only has the right hand side finished (and the top and back but those weren’t ever visible til the Special Edition films), mine is the whole thing, with an interior. That second shot was when I pulled out the old 120+ LEDs I’d used and replaced them with a strip LED.View attachment 15958View attachment 15959

That’s amazing. How long did it take you to build that.

 

[J Alynn]

Thanks! Here’s another couple shots - unlike the film model which only has the right hand side finished (and the top and back but those weren’t ever visible til the Special Edition films), mine is the whole thing, with an interior. That second shot was when I pulled out the old 120+ LEDs I’d used and replaced them with a strip LED.View attachment 15958View attachment 15959

Very impressed. Was never really a Dr Who guy but Star Wars yes and that thing is awesome

 

[Indy]

Thanks! Here’s another couple shots - unlike the film model which only has the right hand side finished (and the top and back but those weren’t ever visible til the Special Edition films), mine is the whole thing, with an interior. That second shot was when I pulled out the old 120+ LEDs I’d used and replaced them with a strip LED.View attachment 15958View attachment 15959

Im qgeeking out. If I remember correctly, I believe they had a model on TESTED with Adam Savage on YouTube. Your attention to detail is amazing.

 

[Artoo]

That’s amazing. How long did it take you to build that.

This crawler model was my 3rd attempt. First one was 25 years ago and looked…absolutely awful lol. I didn’t know what I was doing and didn’t have good reference material. Second attempt was about 20 years ago…and looked even worse. This attempt…I started it in 2007, had it finished enough for an exhibition at the Exploratoreum museum in San Francisco in 2010, and got it more or less in its current form by 2011. I keep altering things periodically, like the LED strips added in 2021. It used to be water cooled, but got rid of that in 2018 or 2019, switching it back to air cooling. Current effort is building a sandy desert base and cliff backdrop for it, started that a few years ago and kinda stalled out but I’ll go back to it eventually. I think I’ve spent in total several thousand dollars making that thing.

By contrast, the TARDIS took me 3 months and cost maybe a couple hundred. I found plans from a woodworker who built a full size one, so scaled mine down to 1/3.

I used to have work logs for these on bit-tech.net but the site I used for photo hosting started charging and by that point nobody was looking at the log anymore, so the pics are all gone. But this page still has a few of the crawle. The first photo is of my 2nd attempt model and the others are during-assembly of the 3rd. https://bit-tech.net/reviews/modding/mod-of-the-month/mod-of-the-month-may-2010/7/