Red dwarf on ebay again

From the colour it certainly looks like it’s a piece of the Remastered ship from prior to its RDX refurb. So while I don’t doubt that it’s possibly a legit piece, the description certainly seems dodgy.

And legit or not, that is an utterly ridiculous price, as good a piece as it is.

That Blue Midget is a replica, if it’s the one I’m thinking of – it’s been posted about on the TOS forums.

That blue midget model was awful. Definitely not the original.

The original can be seen at various I assume sci-fi conventions. I’ve seen pictures of both scales on a table with Starbugs, ore sample pods etc nearby so I assume Mike Tucker / the model unit has them.

From unknown event, but together, and with the prop builders

I worked as a uni placement work experience (did model making course at uni) and did some work on Noel’s house party….making gunge and a few other prop pieces in the special defects department in bbc television centre. After working in the main workshop that day…I remember a lot of the technicians were working on robot wars robots. Anyhow after a long day, one of the senior technicians told me I’d done a good job and reached into a large black plastic dustbin that was filled with parts from the red dwarf model…he handed me it and said that I could have it as a keep sake. (We didn’t get paid for our work experience!!!)

The date on the script was 12/12/1997

Well I remember the bin being full of bits from the ship..I mean full to the top!!!.can’t imagine they duplicated every part…very interesting…thanks for the info

The ship with that bridge was built for the remastered project, so was probably made in 1996. It’s definitely of that ship, the original Red Dwarf model was build by The Magic Camera Company, and was much more organic and had nothing resembling the bridge of the remastered “pencil” Dwarf, it was also a lighter colour.

There was another Red Dwarf model build to replace the MCC one (which fell off a shelf) but that was a replica of the original albeit with different details.

The pencil model was meant to be filmed for remastered but it was 12′ long and was too large for the soundstage and the motion control camera so a hastily made CG one was used.

The remastered model was filmed once, as a test shot for a movie, and then stored until Red Dwarf X where it was refurbished, and the midsection with the bridge part you have one of removed. This was around 2011, so that’s why it seems you have a back up.

It’s interesting, maybe they intended to damage the model in an episode and needed a replacement to fill with pyros. It might be worth reaching out to one of the guys that built it to find out more.