Adipose/Parthenogenesis Detector

[The14thDr]

This update is a bit late, as I finished my Parthenogenesis Detector a few days ago. On Monday, however, I was able to glue the remainder of the wires into place and assemble any remaining pieces onto the plug.



Kind regards, The14thDr

[davidnagel]

Ooh splendid! Can't wait to see this finished.

[The14thDr]

Thanks davidnagel. The only thing I need to add now is the fuse to the inside of the plug, but for now I'd say it's pretty much finished.

[galacticprobe]

I have to agree; that's a great job you've done there, 14th. Once you get that fuse installed I hope we get to see some more photos if the "totally" finished replica. (Maybe some nice beauty shots in the Gallery?)

Dino.

[The14thDr]

I've decided that it's about time I made a few upgrades to my Adipose detector.

The first step was to disassemble the detector before deciding which parts would be kept and which parts would be rebuilt.



After comparing my build to the available reference material, I decided that the top antenna needed some reworking. To make this antenna longer, I cut another length of plastic tube ready to be glued on top.


Finally for today, I added the pins back into the plug, and clipped the fuse into place.



More updates tomorrow.
Kind regards, The14thDr

[The14thDr]

Early morning update.

Last night I got most of the top antenna finished (it just needs to be glued together and have the top half painted.)
The first step was to cut out two cardboard discs; the first a ring and the second a complete circle.



I then glued the circle to the inside of the bottle neck....



.... Before gluing the ring into place halfway down the bottle neck. These will hold the bottle neck into place and stop it from wobbling about.



Finally, I took the shorter length of plastic tubing and filled it with clay. Once the clay sets I can paint this section and assemble the new antenna.



In hindsight, I probably should have made the supporting discs out of plastic so that they would be less visible. I may revisit this at some point...

Kind regards, The14thDr

[The14thDr]

As I mentioned in this morning's update, I replaced the two cardboard discs in the upper bottle top with clear plastic replacements.

I then glued the bottle top to the rest of the antenna.

[The14thDr]

A few days ago I finished off the top part of the upper antenna. I took the length of plastic tubing from Part. 2 and glued a small plastic circle to the top, before painting the entire assembly with black acrylic paint.



My watch also arrived for the scanner attachment. I'll disassemble this over the weekend and make a start on getting the prop finished.

[The14thDr]

After a bit of a break from this project, today I started working on my Adipose detector again. I decided to make a start on the central scanner attachment, so the first step was to dismantle the watch I bought a couple of weeks ago.



I then attached a rubber band to the watch casing where the strap originally was (a very fiddly and frustrating process as the pins kept slipping out as I tried to clip them back in place )



For the red part of the scanner attachment I cut a circle out of a red crisp packet and fit this into the back part of the watch. The white cross is just a tile spacer.

[The14thDr]

Shortly after this morning's update, I had a quick look at a reference photo for this prop and noticed that the tile spacer in the central scanner attachment should be black, not white.
To fix this I popped off the back of the watch casing, painted the tile spacer and reassembled the whole thing.



Next up on today's list of jobs were the two antennae for the bottom of the scanner. The first step was to disassemble both antennae and decide which parts would be kept.



One thing I noticed with my first version of this prop was the way I simplified certain aspects, most notably the antennae, so this time I want to include as much of the detail as possible.



I began by wrapping pieces of thin string around the bolts to represent the copper wiring. My dad then found a couple of washers that are the perfect size to fit round the bolts. I then added more of the string "wires" and painted them a nice coppery colour.



For the threaded parts near the top of antennae, I cut apart two ballpoint pens for the screw-on parts....



..... which I painted gold and attached to some lengths of 10mm plastic tubing using some black duct tape.



And here are the assembled antennae, ready to be reinstalled onto the rest of the scanner:



Let me know what you think of the upgrades so far. More updates soon.
Kind regards, The14thDr

[galacticprobe]

OH MY GLOB!!!

You're really going hog wild with the details on this one, 14th! What you've done so far is mind-boggling!

I then attached a rubber band to the watch casing where the strap originally was (a very fiddly and frustrating process as the pins kept slipping out as I tried to clip them back in place )

I'm guessing that, during this trial, you probably learned why those pins fall into the category of what we (somewhat blasphemously) call "JC Pins" - or similar such clips as "JC Clips".

Dino.

[The14thDr]

Thanks Dino! (And I can see why you would call them "JC Pins" - there was a fair bit of blasphemous cursing going on trying to fit those pins back into the watch )


Update time!!!

There's very little to go on in terms of reference material for the back of this prop, so I sort of just winged it and made a small cardboard "power pack" with the three plug pins sticking out of the back, with glue covering the tips of the pins (the idea behind this is that the Doctor is supposed to have soldered the pins into some sort of high-tech Gallifreyan power supply )




And now comes the fun part: assembling the device!!



Yesterday I was testing the strength of the glue that was holding the top antenna into place, and managed to snap it clean off, meaning I had to reattach it this morning. Luckily, with the cardboard power pack now on the back of the plug, there is now a much larger surface to glue the antenna onto.



Hopefully I should be posting the final update sometime tomorrow. Once the glue dries on the lower antennae I'll be able to wire the whole thing up and add the central scanner attachment.

Kind regards, The14thDr

[The14thDr]

All wired up and with the central scanner attachment fixed in place. Now let's go catch them pesky Adipose.

[Karomak]

This looks absolutely fantastic!

[davidnagel]

Oh my, doesn't that look nice!