Re: AA/Diamond $20 Star Trek Communicator: photos, review, AUTOPSY
Well the originals had black handles. You could spot them easy. :lol
The original AA phaser was the version that was used as a prop on Enterprise. As to why they used a toy and a commercial replica, I guess it was because they were cheap, durable, and "good enough". We all as fans would have wanted to see HMS make up a set of the most accurate replicas ever for them to use, but the fact is I can pretty much guarantee that the cost of the replicas and toys they did use, was less than the bill they would have had to pay HMS for the custom work. Too bad, but "it's a business" as they love to say.
Apparently one of the "dead bodies" of the Defiant crew in the hallway, has got an HMS tricorder, or at least that was what I was told.
Actually I'm more obsessed with the question of why there was only ONE pistol phaser on the entire Defiant... and why it was just lying in the corridor for Archer to find when they initially beam over.
As to the repaints, let's see, there was
- original black handle
- white handle
- gold handle (this was supposed to be a bronze handle but they screwed up)
- corrected, accurate dark bronze handle
- 40th anniversary with dark gray body and black handle
- current issue (identical to "corrected, accurate bronze handle" I think but in new packaging)
So if you don't already have
an AA phaser, I'd say try to get one of the current run with the dark gray body and bronze handle. Those are not only accurate but will be the least expensive.
If you plan to repaint the phaser, any of the various ones will do. The grip should be Rustoluem Dark Bronze Metallic, the phaser body should be a color called Shadow Gray, and the hand phaser can be black or a very dark gray like Zynolyte Primer.
- k
