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As Red Dwarf herself was a bit of an ordeal at times - with lack of access panels and the like, Bill understands the usefulness of a 'sanity break' and so I helped Neil Ellis with what we called the 'bigiature' (big miniature) a close up section of the main ship.

Neil Ellis did the Lions share of this job.

I just helped out with a few panels and then weathered it as Neil finished off Blue Midget.

We painted panels as we went along with Red Oxide primer.
The landing bay unpainted. Initially, the bay was red like the rest of Red Dwarf, but then Doug fancied it in a lighter colour, so it went to grey.Which works better when you compare them. Good call Doug. Shame you never really saw it in the show.
Logo section underway. I could have painted little paint dribbles below the letters and banded the white more, but there REALLY wasnt the time for that....or should I say, the money.
I didnt JUST throw powderpaint at it(or myself), but added lots of masking tape, so areas would stay clean. I used superfine 0000 gauge steel wool to take back the black BLACK BLACK! before peeling off the tape, thern a mist of matt laquer to seal it all. Fairly giant size engineering, but why not? Its Red Dwarf!!
Rightly so, Doug wanted SOME windows so it tied in a little with the main model (though it doesnt really match ANYWHERE on the ship), but rather than just blank them off with tracing paper/opal perspex and light them, we thought we'd try something else. I knew I had a lot of JUNK slides in my digs, so I offered to bring them in..NOT holiday snaps, as Neil jokes on the DVD, but random junk that I'd been meaning to throw away. (camera going off accidentally and taking a picture of the rooflight...that kind of thing)
Idea for the loading bay doors CLOSED. Never even filmed. I think they just ran out of time....or not needed. It was just another one of the many swap-over panels we made to give doug more flexibility on the shoot day. Things in disarray as I wade into the weathering process.
The best shot I have of the bay. This would have been a nice angle to film it from too, then composite Blue Midget flying out of it.
Four rows of holes and a torch moved back and forth would have been a nice low tech effect. I have a film which I'll post of me trying it with just one row (could have strapped 4 torches together)

Its not so much which bits I did, but which bits didn't I do on the bigiature. The bits I didn't do are not highlighted in green.

Not forgetting the swap-over panels for the same areas.

(Wouldnt want people to think I did more than I actually did).

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