03/28/2006
I did NOT use the regular belly lights, did'nt want the hassle
of making a flasher card thing because flasher bulbs don't exist
for those anymore.
These are just basic bulbs like on the wands but painted.
03/27/2006
This is a Barton brain, bubble and neck. I chenged the red
wand bulbs to ambers and put in static burn bulbs for the eyes.
Collar is by Monroe. Homemade radar with Kendzierski (?) metal
ears.
Torso stuff installed. Various makers.
PHONEY neon ala Nick Mulpagano. So it aint real, looks just
as good IMO. NO Christmas light rows, florescent tubes, etc,
etc. when Nick's method ROCKS!
07/10/2005
Two fellas were helping me with my robot today. I got a good
start on the belly lights later.
Detail pose shot.
07/09/2005
Overall view upper half. I repositioned the fake neon to show
the top ridge.
CU of bay plate light on ( it's to one side on mine ).
Most of chest stuff on.
Fred B's brain, etc. in action.
It talks, fake neon ala Nick Mulpagano.
07/06/2005
As my camcorder's video cord is short and the VCR had to be
near the TV, only the lower half of my robot can be shown for
now. I have to get an extension for the video cord. I just finished
these legs and hope they look like the 1st year SEPARATE legs.
It bugs me that the door on the foot looks crooked.....maybe
it IS ##$%&!!
See the two end of pvc pipe I have supporting the legs. I had
NO drill press or a stack of wood cut out leg boards secured
together to make all the holes. Had to make each hole separetly
per board. There is some offset,the holes don't line up perfectly
so the upper boards don't slip on real easy.
I screwed down the lower half of the legs ( knees and leg
bottoms ) to seat the pipes into.
I painted the tubing dark grey and outside they're lighter
colored than inside the house.
The necessary items needed for the robot: reciever and a too
large probably CD player from a thrift store. WHY don't I see
this kind of stuff near the robots in those B9 Club videos??
Don't tell me the torsos have all that and MORE inside them?!
Other important items. Did Smith ever call the robot a Clattering
Cockamamie Coffee Pot or a Metal Monstrosity?
The homemade waist plate with the torso and donut mounting
bolts that keep the upper robot from falling off the waist plate.
Two metal tongues on the donut slide over the bolts.
Angle 1 of my somewhat different prog bay plate: light to one
side, LIS logo and a CD disc ( no function for it, just thought
the tape reel was way outdated especially for the robot ).
Had they known CD and DVD discs were going to happen down the
road in the 60's, LIS would've likely used them.
Angle 2 of my bay plate looed sucky so here's a donut shot
showing wood used to both reinforce the donut and to screw the
two metal tongues to that bolt down the torso and donut. Wood
is at four places around the donut.
The head section with Fred Barton bubble, brain and resin neck
lifter. Dan Monroe collar. Radar homemade, spinners by Bill
Kendzierski.
Fred brain close up. I switched the wand bulbs to orange bulbs.
Supplied only with reds on them.
The head section with Fred Barton bubble, brain and resin neck
lifter. Dan Monroe collar. Radar homemade, spinners by Bill
Kendzierski.
My dummy missile bay in the soil sampler door. I keep forgetting
to cover and paint the inside of the door.
This imitation, money saving B9 neon is based on Nick M's.
Dan Monroe uses a fake but his is different. I think one other
guy used a fake neon. Most 9'ers use real neons it seems.
Mine looks really too transparent without much color in this
image but it's not like that in reality. I have a red orange
lamp paint on the back of it. I may need more red in fact to
simulate B9's neon. Under the too bright studio lights, it looked
orange but when the robot was in darker surroundings, it looked
very orangy RED.
Later I'll have to go 35 miles to a DECENT hobby shop my area
lacks to get a length of clear acryllic rod to make the two
curved neon tubes at the top.
The back side showing how the vinyl tubing is secured to the
plexi plate. Nick made me the plate.
This is the only way I could fix the problem of having a big
opening at the head's mouth, the mouth having been removed ack
when I was going to have an animated mouth talking Smith dummy
like Nick Mulpagano's idea. I'll have Dr. Smith like this
with a body standing next to my robot who's holding a roll of
masking tape.
Larry
S . ( B9-0100 )
