Two wires and humble pie for breakfast.

It's just gone 8am. I am sitting in my office and have been here for the past 6 hours staring at my computer screen at these fucking pics Gorton posted up yesterday. Something momentous has dawned on me and although I feel a bit gutted because of it, I am also elated.

First up, remember I called Gorton a bit of cunt for getting his sonic wrong? Color and dimension wise I still stand by that 100%. It is undoubtedly the wrong color and the dimensions are still all over the place. However, in coming to that conclusion I also proved myself wrong in an assertion about a key feature of the prop.

Bear with me for a bit whilst I ramble. Remember in one of my previous posts that I said that there was a rod used in the sonic from Intermediate 2 onwards?

Well, having looked at all the images and in particular, one image, I have come to an inescapable conclusion that I have been mistaken and Neill Gorton's assertion that it is misting caused by incorrect boring of the perspex rod is indeed the reality. Look at the corrected picture of the prop that I corrected earlier:

This pic is probably the most accurate in my opinion to the true appearance of the sonic screwdriver prop in regards to color levels. But it was not the color that drew my eye, rather I was drawn to the perspex rod and its familiarity to my own efforts. Here's a closeup:

In my book, that looks like very bad frosting. I should know: I spent forever trying to get that middle channel reasonably transparent and didn't really succeed until I added some machine oil to it. Here's a pic of one of my early attempts:

I had actually installed this on my of my Tennant prototype mockups as it was to hand so it had yellow wires running through it. Compare it to a closeup of the same area on the prop:

Looks pretty convincing doesn't it?

I shall be revising my sonic color blog entry in light of this but the upshot is that, yes, yellow/grey/white wires were used but became obscured due to the increased misting of the bored channel. The reason for this is actually quite prosaic: Intermediate 2 no longer exists. It is simply Intermediate 1 where the oil that was used to aid transparency by filling in the drilling marks ran out, probably into the battery compartment, leaving the frosting behind. The Intermediate 1 & 2 is the same sonic!!!!! The good news for MFX owners is that the same thing will happen to the MFX as this too also has oil to aid translucency. When this eventually flows out, the misting will become apparent. The result, if you can get the sonic repainted Colony Cream, is a 90% accurate sonic as the remaining 10% is an error in dimensions, shape and construction.

This also means I would like to offer an unreserved apology to Neill Gorton on this particular point and for calling him a liar in this regard. I was wrong here. I am a total cunt and I probably need a new pair of contact lenses for not spotting this sooner.

I am not an unreasonable man and I don't have a hidden agenda. This is not a battle of ego's but one of truth. I truly love this prop and my aim is accuracy, truth and information even if it mean putting my ego into the nearest trash bin. That's the way I roll and that's the way I will continue to roll. However, this single point does not still resolve the question as to why the rest of the sonic is still inaccurate and what precisely happened from between Chris Trice measuring the sonic to Russ Brown delivering on the final product. If we can get to the bottom of this, we can hopefully finally put this unfortunate conflict behind us.