Nice to have an image of J11 at its later resited position.

J11

Box

06-Jan-36
15 Sep 70

Cambridge Park Road, north side 40 yards east of High Road Leytonstone


District:    Leytonstone
Subdivision: Leyton

Resited: Bush Road, south side 115 yards east of High Road Leytonstone





Surveyed / Revised: 1952, Published: 1953 map:

Having successfully negotiated the upgrade to the raised beds, I had some time to myself and the sun was still shining. I brought out the base of the Tardis and removed the old wheels. I moved the new ones inward as much as I could so they wouldn't bash the sides, and then added a 1 1/2 inch skirt all around the base. I did leave a gap for the tow rope to go through at the front.They're glued in place for the moment, but I'll reinforce that with screws a little later. Still haven't decided if we're taking the Tardis to the Washington State Summer Con. I'd like to, but taking both Tardis and Dalek is soooo complicated.

Ha ha!A trip to Home Depot for unimportant things (ie, not Tardis related) reveals these 3 inch casters for only $11 each! I'll have to mount them in a little more if I'm going to have some kind of cover in front, but they'll roll better!

Oh that's more like it! Excellent!! Love the teeth -they would have made a mess of Sarah! (Glad you liked the drawing!)

 All the best
 Andrew

I love your concept art Andrew, I'm putting that on my list of prop builds, right next to the Cybermat complete collection.  When I started photoshoping, It looked like an Alien head without the pong eyes.

Overdue on the list was fixing a gap between the lantern base and the top of the roof (because my bolts and thread inserts weren't aligning anymore) by adding some depth to the bottom.





Pending full paint job now.

We aren't going to talk about my inability to measure twice and cut once...

Quote from: elkad on Mar 14, 2024, 01:16 pm

Quote from: Andrew Harvey on Mar 13, 2024, 02:39 pmIt would be interesting to see it with a better head- one with eyes like the originals had.

 Andrew

I made a quick Photoshop of this particular Cybermat with three types of eyes. The firs is the ping-pong like white eyes, the second has a sort of cylon like eye that scans back & forth for a target, & the third is an empty teardrop keyhole shape eye. Honestly, the the shape it has now resembles a featureless cobra. And the featureless & unknown is always a big time scare in the horror movies. Who doesn't fear the unknown.

Googly eyes. It's the only answer.

OK, I won't re-explain. Please see my last post. It worked a charm. Here's the photo evidence.

The guide hole in scrap stock



Clamped onto the lamp base



Drill bit depth-stop marked by electrical tape, depth = scrap guide thickness plus nut and washer height = 15 mm



Marker mark on threaded rod showing where the flush lamp bottom ended. The countersunk washer and nut sit below this mark



Countersunk nut on re-tightened rod



Now the lamp base can sit flat on the roof-top square. The rods extend inside the TARDIS to support a wood square holding the lamp light and inside light.

Mmmm Interesting! Definitely better with eyes. I still think a fatter head too. I had a re-count there on the picture you had put up of the number of segments; it looks like twelve to me! I'd never noticed the markings on its back before (first anterior segment). To my mind at least, the long neck is more like a long nose. A sort of insectoid proboscis. I like he idea of it being like a cobra. I rattled off a sketch, but I think Ive done the head to short...(hope you dont mind the sketch! Just an exchange of ideas!)

Andrew