Red Dwarf VIII

Loading Bay

10'x8'x5' approx at 1:25 scale. True Team effort (6 people) 6 weeks, everything but the kitchen sink went into this miniature set. The setting for Starbugs' destruction and the Cats' song and dance routine.

Crane

Applying chevron graphics to overhead crane, 1:12 scale, MDF construction clad with usual flotsum and jetsom by Bill Pearson and myself. 2 weeks....Really! (must have been all that coffee!)

Grabber

Small background 'container grabber', 12" long, 1:25, butchered toys, 2 days.

Hypo

Full size prop, juggling pieces of aluminium until they look funky, batteries in handle, on-off lights, 2 days.

Time Wands

Two wands, one functional, one not. 'Function' was a pulsating blue tip that had an 'in-out' action, connected to a hypodermic syringe via a tube down Krytons' sleeve and trouser leg and off camera. Enormous potential for laughs but never activated. Non-functioning wand was made to throw about, in order to protect the mechanism of the functioning one (which was never used?). I made the tip reminiscent of the pulsating center of Dr Who's TARDIS to add credibility to the time travel aspect of the wand. Plastic tubing covered with pre-machined metallic components.

Axe

Own design for futuristic fire axe used to hit 'the CAT' (unpainted) complete with foam blade, so as not to injure the actor. Ordinary fake axe used instead. It was felt that the audience wouldn't know what this object was.

Replicator

Seen firing a can at the back of Rimmers' head. Mostly sheet ABS. Two days.