Scott Sanderson's geared ears on a Fred Barton radar section. There's nothing like a Fred Barton radar section for having plenty of space to hold motors and such. Lazy susan is mounted on wood blocks with washers for proper spacing. The ear motors are mounted on wood blocks with 1/4" or neoprene rubber (left over tread material) between the wood block and the fiberglass radar section to help quiet some of the motor noise. The motors are from Hobby Engineering and cost $5.50 each. The striped discs attached are 1/2" MDF (I burned the stripes in with my hole saw). I then glued a small hub fitting from a Tamiya set up pulleys and belts, that I also got at Hobby Engineering, and then mated that up to the shaft on Scott S's ears. I made acrylic brackets to hold the ears in place. The brackets holding the motors in place was cut off the packaging that came will a couple of bar clamps I bought at Lowe's. Trash can be treasure.

I'll probably re-do my finger lights. They came out slightly too small for the sockets to fit into. I decided to solder the negative lead to the back of the finger and the positive lead directly to the bulb. The bulb fits snuggly enough in the rod to make contact with the sides. To replace bulbs I just need to loosen one wire and slip it out. They are painted with Tamiya X-26 Orange translucent paint I found it in a hobby shop that specialized in balsa wood models. The light rods are kind of champagne flute shaped rather than the stepped end type. I know this is less accurate, but I like the look. I still think 12 fingers all the way around the brain cup would look cool. When viewed from above it would look like some of the wall clocks that were popular in the 60's (I think this may have been Kinoshita's inspiration for this part . . . just my opinion). A case of champagne to the first builder to build the dreaded 12-fingered brain! I'd LOVE to see it.