Sara Jane's swan song episode. I can see why Sara Jane Smith character was so popular as she was a pretty neat companion. Though the Doctor kind of unceremoniously dumped her off before going along his [not so] merry way. What was neat is that when she re-appeared in the more recent Doctor Who series, she openly complains to the Doctor to that fact. Remarking that he dropped her off in the wrong place and never bothered to check up on her again (though he did leave a K-9 to look after her!).
Before final gluing, the body pieces were taped together and squared up using the edges of my workbench. Liquid glue was applied liberally into the corners and left to dry for a while.
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| Table corner keeps K-9's body square. |
Monitor cut-out used pilot holes and special step drill bit to make nice rounded edges. Once the four holes are finished, the straight parts can be scribe-cut.
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| Step drill works great on styrene. |
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| Olfa scribe in use. |
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| Apparently they reverted back to 4:3 aspect ratio monitors in the year 5000. |
With that done, the panel is glued on and the top is sheeted with three layers of 1mm styrene sheet.
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| Sanded to conformity and looking good. |
Next up is the top control panel. This is also made using multiple layers of 1mm sheet.
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| Had to be careful, the bottom panel sheet is slightly different than the top two. |
Now we're getting somewhere!
Test fit if the top panel onto the body.
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| Lots of work to get to this point, but the results are great. |
Next week, the Tin Dog gets a head!
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