Old Wombat's Crab - FINISHED - Pic's pg.7

[Old Wombat]

Thanks, gents!

The driver's hole is relatively basic; seat, control tillers, some instruments, accelerator & brake pedals, & a few "switch boxes" for ... well, stuff.

[Rick Lowe]

Thanks, gents!

The driver's hole is relatively basic; seat, control tillers, some instruments, accelerator & brake pedals, & a few "switch boxes" for ... well, stuff.

What Shep Paine used to call 'Creative Gizmology'; stuff that looks appropriate and makes the space look suitably 'busy'.

[Old Wombat]

Oops, "brake pedal" should have read "clutch pedal" (the tillers are the brakes).

[PR19_Kit]

Did you see the PM I sent a couple of days ago?

[Old Wombat]

The one with the image of the decal sheet? Yes - to which I replied.

Nothing since then.

[PR19_Kit]

Oh rats, I didn't see your reply then, but I've got it now after a re-start! 

Ok thanks, I'll get on with the printing. The postal services will be the biggest problem, but we've got nearly 2 months yet.

[Old Wombat]

The postal services will be the biggest problem, but we've got nearly 2 months yet.

My fault for not planning ahead.

[zenrat]

Oh rats, I didn't see your reply then, but I've got it now after a re-start! 

Ok thanks, I'll get on with the printing. The postal services will be the biggest problem, but we've got nearly 2 months yet.

The cheapest mail service from here to there is quoted as taking 25+ business days.  That's at least five weeks real time.  Express services are quicker but prohibitively priced ($40?).  Of course those are quoted times and customers do keep telling me their parcels are taking less time.
Not sure what times they are advising coming this way.  It might be quicker as it's downhill...

I did get a letter from my father in Sussex last week which is postmarked 16th March.  So that took two weeks.

[rickshaw]

Two weeks is about standard between here and the UK.  I once had a package that took only 10 days and a letter that took over four weeks.  Doesn't matter if there is a Pandemic or not it is still roughly two weeks.

[loupgarou]

I once bought a book from New Zealand and it took nearly 6 MONTHS to arrive, when I had given it up as lost.
On the other side, more than once I received collectable cameras from Japan in less than a week.

[Rick Lowe]

Still waiting on a parcel from Canadia to NZ... been a month now... surely there's enough coming here that they don't need to wait for a container to fill up? 

[Old Wombat]

Finally got the first major construction element completed!

Still lots of detail stuff to do but the first point where I can sit back & say "Yep, I've done something!"

Too late for photo's tonight (day shift tomorrow). I'll take some after work, then, & post the WiP.


Thanks for watching!

[Old Wombat]

As promised, WiP pic's!






















Plus a couple with the base of the "appliance" fitted;






Thanks for your patience!


Guy

[zenrat]

I know we say this a lot here, but it's very Gerry Anderson.  I can see it rolling out of one of Thunderbird Two's pods.

[PR19_Kit]

Looks like a tracked flying saucer. 

Is that what the decals are for?