Southendnick's Solar System Build

I guess it wouldn't be too difficult to replace the moon arms with something thinner. Perhaps you could get some silver wire and various sized silver balls from a jewelery supplier ? Food for thought - I might give it a go.

I guess the planet arms have to be that thick as they are quite long with the distant planets.

So you going to do it daveg ?

It's going slowly, waiting on issues 2 & 6 to arrive, also need to find a different sort of glue.

Next build up date:

We had to collect Issues 26 through to 30 for the Saturn stage.

Issue 26 came with...




Saturn and three of it moons.

Issue 27:

106 tooth gear.

Issue 28:

48 tooth gear, grub screws, Self tapping screws, Planet spindle, washers.

Issue 29:

80 tooth gear.

and issue 30.

Planet gear arm, grub screw, self tapping screws, and new feet more about them in a mo...

Now we can finally get on with the build!

Its the normal procedure of building up these two from most of the parts issued over the last few weeks.

The two larger gears are screwed together seperated by the gear spindle in the middle, this has a collar reound it to keep the black plastic hidden it is held in place by a grub screw.

the arm also has a plastic piece in the middle.

These both slide on to the central column after removing the base (again!).


Saturn in place.

The black plastic supports are only used when the unit is not in operation and during the build to give better support the the ever lengthening bars.


Going back to the feet issue...

The original feet had very small bottoms the new feet have big bottoms (is this getting pervy!), the more planets that get added the more unstable the usit became as the footprint of the originals were not big enough to support the evergrowing unit. The new feet are more then capable to keep it from toppling over, eventually you can do away with the plastic feet as the nice shiny motorized base section has nice long sweeping legs.


The two feet, as you can see the new larger foot has a much better footprint its rockstable now.

The unit still not complete is getting very weighty once I find the scales I will pop it on and find out just what it top out at so far...

Nick

Looking good, also I can see whats coming my way before it hits. - LoL ;D Will be interesting to see just how heavy it is, just wondering if they should have had a warning, saying "Stand / operate on strong solid and stable surfaces only"

Waiting to get the issues so I can attach Mars to mine.

Daveg how is yours going, did you start it.

Looks good. In the magazine it says Eris is finished with issue's 46 and 47, so the last 5 issues are to build the base.

Just a little nit pick, I can see that your Uranus and Neptune planets are painted wrong as well as mine, a bit silly of Eaglemoss to get this wrong. The cloud bands are painted wrong on the planet's, Uranus should be tilted over and Neptune's should be parallel. Have a look at issue 31.

Even with the 2 planet errors it's a bloody good model.

When I saw your last photo I thought I was seeing a ghost, I had a cat with the same face markings about 20 years ago.

Awww poor cats. Have 3 ex street cats here, they just walked in and made this place home.

Nice looking ones too.

Can't understand some people, why give up such beautiful cats.

A K to you for looking after some rescue cats.