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  1. So after a bit of searching Ive found the snaps of my scratch build The Jaguar chase car with the camera jib. That used the eye lash doh dah thingmy bob. I got the camera in the wrong place it should have been slung under the jib, not balanced on the end of it - I blame the lack of mobile signal at Fawley for poor research, honest. The soundman with his fishpole and boom mic. That was the end of the head massager wires with a modified Russian soldier. It was just a joke for the TV crew more than anything, they seemed to appreciate it. The studio light lamp stands. Again the head massager wires chopped, bent and glued. With a 3D printed lamp on the top. I think this is where I lost a lot of time as I tried to make a lot of lamp stands. For whatever reason the araldite was not going off properly and there was a lot of re-gluing of these. I suspect sweaty fingers was the main cause in hindsight. War Memorial. The thing I was most pleased with and it seemed to get left on the cutting room floor. Yet gain the head massager wires for the tree trunks and part of the handle as the base for it. Some basic green foliage screwed into a ball using a tad of PVA to hold it for the top of the trees. An interior part of the head massager made the statue plinth and 2 Russian solders to top it off. One x Wonky Chimney. Oh the shame of it, I spent too much time doing the rest and this was a 15 minute panic, it was frankly shocking. Other thoughts what to do with the baby bio bottle were; Matt suggested a grounded steam boiler - I thought it was a bit big for this (sorry Matt). Pour the liquid into something and use it - I rejected that as we had done it in heat 5 with the tanning oil and thought it would have been seen as a obvious rehash. A water tower - Not carried forward because I couldn't work out how to do it at the time, however looking back I can see exactly how it could have been achieved and I had already cut all the bits or disassembled them that I needed, but just couldn't envisage the next move required - so annoying now. The plastic handle of the head massager upside down on the top half of the baby bio bottle. All I had to do was stick them together and then pour the liquid into the top, job done. DOH! As a team we did wonder what would be broadcast of the Wonky Chimney judging. The long silent pause of Kathy and Tim was the acceptable version. The one that didnt make the cut had Tim 'examining' the Wonky Chimney in a particular way. He did ask if his gestures and comments would make it past the edit and the director said 'Well it is Channel 5'. And contrary to what you may think, Kathy can smile. The other teams use of the items were top notch and I was much impressed with were they were used. Good work lads Chris .
  2. You should of had a medal for wearing that costume in the heat of the weekend. I thought your use of the tat we were given to cobble something together with was inspired, specially making use of the eye thing for the animated dinosaur - top marks Chris
  3. I totally agree. That bit of me sawing the baby bio bottle up was about 6 mins before the wonky chimney hit the layout table - 'Could you do that again?', 'Err, no.' The 4 min warning from Tim was a 'for TV' moment as I had already put all the other scratch build items on the set, but my TV minder hadn't noticed and I hadn't told them (someone is Head of Blame here), so I had to do it again. I'm not sure retakes were in my contract, where's my Agent? Chris
  4. Fair comment. Look at the gaffa tape that is on the scratch build challenge cardboard box which they pick the objects out of (but don't look at heat 1 and 2 for this, someone forgot) and even the objects. It reminded me of how Blue Peter used to operate
  5. Well done to the winners, it was well deserved, really nice layouts with fab features. What didn't get a mention was how hot it was over the three days. Jon and I decided we needed a breath of fresh air after being cooped up in the hot shed, but quickly came back inside after we realised it was considerably warmer outside. On judgement day the missus's car was reading the attached temperature. Chris ps Please don't mention the chimney, Im still having counselling
  6. Can I just send my sympathy to Simon of the Rail Riders following his accident with the drill. I don't know anyone else who would have been so ham fisted with a power tool.... ....oh wait.... But it may not have been caught on camera
  7. Certainly as we were announced as the Wild Card that was done three times - for continuity sake I had to say the same reaction word 3 times, luckily that wasn't caught on mic. I suspect they used the first take. To be fair to the production company, by this time we were used to the retakes and from the otherside of the fence I know that having several versions of something to edit from gives you a lot more freedom to tell a story or the they way you would like it to be seen. Reality and truth are in the eye of the beholder
  8. The actual presentations to the judges took 10-15mins usually and the TV editor has the final say. There was quite a bit the operation of our Mars layout on the cutting room floor - various shunting moves etc. I'm sure this is true of all the layouts in one way or another. And lets be honest, shunting moves do not make great TV, but does prove the set functions operationally to the judges at the time. Are they repeatable animations? I suppose that depends on what it was. The door on our rocket shed should be but, it worked on the judging first time, however I understand it hadn't been approached about the numerous retakes that were required later. It was particularly obstinate about this, but did work again eventually before throwing a complete strop and storming off to its trailer to ring its agent. And of course those animations were the items we had time to cobble together in the 24 hrs we were allowed. I would expect a few other ideas and animations, etc to be added to our layouts that we didnt have time for or might dream up now, extending the dwell times at an exhibition. Steve Flint was disappointed that we didnt launch our rocket, 'a step too far for them', but I have thought of a few ways this could be done, however most of them are not repeatable as the rockets re-entry to the earths atmosphere may produce its own problems.
  9. Three really interesting layouts, well done guys. If I was wearing a hat, Team Grantham, it would be doffed in your direction. As we shambled away from heat 5 we really felt for you. We were knackered after 3 days, Ive no idea how you felt after 6 days of it. Well done again all
  10. Sighs loudly, but..... Broadcast times change again Sat 19 Oct 6:25pm-7:30pm (1 hour 5 minutes) Slightly shorter too - may be they'll cut out the peacocks?
  11. I know what you mean about the signs, if we had our time again there would be a few things done differently. We quite possibly over engineered a few bits. Personally the opening door of the rocket shed to allow the rocket out is in that category. Instead of wiring a loco up (9v battery in use here too) and inserting below the door, I might just of used some string and pulled it open. That occurred to me as you flew your spaceship 'why didn't I do that??!?' That piece of practical sensibility seemed to elude me during the build up to the filming, probably because of the time constraint of being one of the last teams in. Then there was also a bit of the scratch build challenge that also suffered from overthinking too.
  12. Err no to that. This was our first outing and we learnt our lesson about that idea, unless you have some cattle prods available?
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