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Island: Sin Bin II

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That’s cool! Always wondered about that sticky out leg bit at the back, but totally makes sense as a scoop/tether thing.

Here’s one I put together for the newer design, but just focused on propulsion system.

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Always really liked that Cat ship design, it’s much nicer than what we saw in The Promised Land. 

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https://youtu.be/Mp0oo2_rnSM?t=814 – There’s this one – which I’ve only ever seen in this Howard Goodall documentary, weirdly – as well as in one of the US pilot versions that’s floating around. 

And then this one from Parallel Universe, which I haven’t spotted anywhere else. Notable that this shot, and the long distance shots from Series 2 and 3 feature different detailing on the model (no protruding bit behind the nameplate, less protruding antenna from the bumpy bit on top). 

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He said: “We’ve always been big fans of Red Dwarf and we discussed about writing something together when we realised that there had never been a scholarly book about the show.

At least get your facts right..: 

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In the same vein as those fucking weird Youtube thumbnails where they have AI images of the cast in hospital beds, missing limbs etc – really odd stuff. 

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Interesting stuff! Always hoped they’d come across the remaining S1 Model shoot rushes, which are missing off the DVD release. 

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I think thats supposed to be a sort of proto- PsiScan. He uses it again in Polymorph. 

Anyway, while we’re on the subject, this fucking thing: 

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Very good of Doug to take the time to do this, and it’s great to have some clarity on the current state of Red Dwarf, albeit not the news most of us were hoping for. Personally, I’ve always loved the novels, so the prospect of more coming along is very exciting. There’s 30 odd years of Red Dwarf lore to dig into and explore since the last ones came out, so I’m looking forward to seeing what comes of it. 

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https://youtu.be/hAknqxPukAI?t=446 – That little guitar led bit that comes in when Lister first brings out Frankenstein. Just a lovely, melodic variation on the main tune. 

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The reality is that each passing year raises the hurdles that the cast will naturally face due to advancing age. Nobody with any heart could force Robert to spend hours at a time being torturously encased in latex to perform under hot studio lights for hours at a time. Which is why I’m proposing that he undergo intensive and invasive cosmetic surgery to give him those rubbery, angular features that we know and love on a permanent basis. 

They can also glue that wig into Chris’s head. 

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Everyone sat like that in the late 90s. 

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Sounds hilarious. Here, have some money. 

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I was going to say that, but aware that I’ve said it about 10 times already on here. 

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This is very interesting. I’ve always been fascinated by the movie and what might have been, although from what we’ve seen over the years, I still can’t fathom how it would all string together. We’ve got pre-accident scenes on Earth (or Mimas or somewhere) with Lister signing up for JMC and Red Dwarf leaving dock, an opening that clearly happens in the series’ present day, what looks to be some sort of Mad Max style Cat colony, some ancient Egyptian styled ‘Sphinxian’ baddies, assisted by ‘Paradroids’ – that whole bit of blurb about ‘Homo Sapienoids’ taking over the solar system and hunting humans, the Hoguey sequence that was parachuted into The Beginning, some sort of double Rimmer scenario etc etc. I’d guess that these are taken from various different versions of the script, so it might be that they’re mutually exclusive, but it all seems very disparate. 

I’d be surprised if more than a chunk of the rest hasn’t showed up in the interim series between VIII and The Promised Land. Fascinating stuff though, and it’s a shame to think it may never see the light of day when so much work has clearly gone into it. 

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It’s fine, the props department probably just covered it in icing sugar or something. 

This moment has always stuck in my head, so I need to ask: what are the moments in Red Dwarf, not the obvious ones, that put you off?

I can’t stand Lister licking his dust-covered finger here. It’s awful.

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I can knock up a 3D render or something if anyone needs one. 

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You could do some decent forced perspective shots with it in the background of scenes so it looked full size and further away. Of course this wouldn’t work with the redesigned XI and XII Starbug as they look different, which raises the question of why they built that version in the first place. I just hope it ends up somewhere nice, not rotting in a field under a tarpaulin somewhere. 

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Cheers Paul! Have you a link to your stuff?

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JlvEeR

here you go! 

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Brilliant work Andrew! Nice to meet someone else who also enjoys painstakingly recreating details of Red Dwarf in 3D that were almost certainly knocked out in a 5 minute panic by a stressed art director, 30+ years ago. 

Here’s the tax disc I made for my Blue Midget model: 

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I mean, aside from the reusable ejector seat that they use in the same episode. 

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The cloaking thing sort of works if you imagine it can only be used once, a bit like an airbag or ejector seat.

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Doug splicing in some specially shot cutaways of a bus interior to cover the obvious ADR re-record for Back to Earth’s 15th anniversary rerelease. 

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I liked it. 

It looked nice, the performances were all pretty solid, there was some fun, soapy RTD dialogue peppered about and some nice practical FX stuff. It was also about as subtle as a brick to the face and quite hamfisted in places, but ultimately you’d have to be a bit of a prick to object to the overall message.

Now, how do we convince Disney to bung some of their money at Red Dwarf? 

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Not really sure how that happened, I’ve only watched it once. 

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Here’s my 3D Mk.1 Blue Midget in its landing bay. 

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The Jade Judgement 

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I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t this. 

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“Ahead, groove factor five! Yeah!”

Only a small mishearing, but it took me about twenty years to figure that one out. I always heard it as ‘Ahead, groove back to five!”, as if Holly was giving verbal dance directions to his little moving TV stand, á la Rimmer directing the skutters.

It’s an odd line of dialogue either way, but there’s something very funny and endearing about the sheer enthusiasm with which Norm delivers it.

 

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That’s brilliant, thank you! God, it’s amazing what you can find on eBay.

Here’s where I’m at at the moment – if progress continues at it’s current pace I’m confident I can have it finished at some point before the universe finally collapses into a lifeless vacuum.

After 15 odd years, I swear I will at some point learn how to post an image on this bloody website.

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That’s brilliant, thank you! God, it’s amazing what you can find on eBay.

Here’s where I’m at at the moment – if progress continues at it’s current pace I’m confident I can have it finished at some point before the universe finally collapses into a lifeless vacuum.

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Link works for me. I tried to re-host an embed it and that doesn’t seem to work so here is just an impure link

That’s great, cheers. Trying to put together a reasonably accurate 3D model of the thing at the moment so it’s nice to have a proper reference, as there are so few photos of the original model out there, and they’re all shite quality.

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Which part was it? Looks like the picture links are dead.

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JUST THE LEGS

Special edition of the classic episodes presented in 8:3 ratio , cropped in so that only the actor’s lower limbs are visible in shot.

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THE INQUISITOR’S VISITOR

The immortal simulant is driven to despair when his obnoxious cousin Simon travels down from Dundee and insists on staying in his spare bedroom for three weeks.

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I think the willingness of the cast and/or age is probably the main deciding factor at the moment. I get the impression Robert is (understandably) not too keen on getting encased in latex for hours on end these days. The pandemic certainly won’t have helped, either.

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HONDA QUORN 2

The Japanese car manufacturer releases the new and improved version of their popular vehicle, formed entirely from cultivated mycoprotein fungus.

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FOND O’ QUORN

Acclaimed comedy writer Rob Grant’s new Radio 4 show, in which he discusses his love of the titular meat substitute.

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URINE REPORT, MILADDO

Rimmer demands a detailed description of Lister’s most recent piss.

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It’s a small country, most people just walk.

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I’m afraid Hamish and I have assumed control of G&T. This is a Canadian website now.

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I didn’t actually check the link, but yeah, I suppose it must have been in a separate forum post or something.

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