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The beginnings of Stingray! Here is Stingray, partially carved in jelutong wood, with its "Perspex" cabin being fitted to the main hull
Stingray, now moulded in fibreglass from a rubber mould, is seen here held in the vice on a steel pole, sprayed in its base coat silver. It will then be masked up to spray the blue and yellow colours on.
Stingray comes to rest on the seabed in this photo, again done for the Stingray Comics.
Here I am seen setting up one of the very first shots I ever did for the Stingray Comic. When I took the final photo, I had a piece of glass with bubbles painted on it in front of the camera to give the impression the craft is underwater,
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A similar shot of Stingray done for the comic, but this time I used smoke to get an effect of Stingray stirring up dust off the seabed as it came to rest
.Stingray stands in its clamps ready for launch.
Such was the demand for different photos of Stingray I ended up making the whole launch pen!
I made it using many plastic kit parts, and was very lucky in being able to obtain virtually ALL those used in the original set. The set had a fibreglass resin coated lower section so it could be filled with water.