wasili
Sr Member
Hey guys and gals,
Here's a project i've been working on, on-and-off, since 2009.
A studio-scale recreation of the K7 Space Station miniature, originally build by Greg Jein's talented team, for Deep Space Nine's fan-favourite episode, "Trials and Tribble-ations". This rendition of K7 i favor more than the original as seen in the TOS episodes, which was a tiny tad different in shape (mainly the main central saucer). I think Greg's K7 looks a bit sleeker.
That, and there's a ton more info available on it, and when i build something, i do try to build it as close to the original as possible.
First off, here's Greg's K7 on the shooting stage, with Gary Hutzel. \/
Greg helped me with some info, and off i went recreating this in 3d first. And skipping some steps in the digital research and constant rebuilding, here's a quick screenshot of my 3d model. \/
The outer satellite pods still need some tweeking, but are getting close. The UFP text on the saucer is just a placeholder.
Very early render/crappy screenshot of the hangar. \/
And off to machining the parts. The miniature has a 5ft diameter, so the parts do have some nice size to them.
Parts were cnc machined from foam, 2mm smaller than they were supposed to be. Then clad with an epoxy and carbonfibre composite, finished with an epoxy filler. Last stage was to place those pieces again under my cnc, and machine them to the correct shape and size. The thin epoxy/carbonfibre 'skin' makes big and lightweight pieces.
Other parts such as the centre pod (on the back of the table, and the center dome (left of picture on top of main saucer), were machined from chemiwood/modelboard/cibatool.
Remainder was ABS plastruct tubing and hemi's, and styrene for the hangar.
Since using the foam and epoxy method, i have come round and started using modelboard again for all newer pieces i build.
Anyhow, here's where i am at the moment. \/
All parts are loose, need glueing and proper filling. I have build nice flat bases from mdf, on top of which i can assemble these parts before making the silicone molds with fibreglass jackets.
More soon.
Thanx for looking.
Cheers,
Wasili
Here's a project i've been working on, on-and-off, since 2009.
A studio-scale recreation of the K7 Space Station miniature, originally build by Greg Jein's talented team, for Deep Space Nine's fan-favourite episode, "Trials and Tribble-ations". This rendition of K7 i favor more than the original as seen in the TOS episodes, which was a tiny tad different in shape (mainly the main central saucer). I think Greg's K7 looks a bit sleeker.
That, and there's a ton more info available on it, and when i build something, i do try to build it as close to the original as possible.
First off, here's Greg's K7 on the shooting stage, with Gary Hutzel. \/
Greg helped me with some info, and off i went recreating this in 3d first. And skipping some steps in the digital research and constant rebuilding, here's a quick screenshot of my 3d model. \/
The outer satellite pods still need some tweeking, but are getting close. The UFP text on the saucer is just a placeholder.
Very early render/crappy screenshot of the hangar. \/
And off to machining the parts. The miniature has a 5ft diameter, so the parts do have some nice size to them.
Parts were cnc machined from foam, 2mm smaller than they were supposed to be. Then clad with an epoxy and carbonfibre composite, finished with an epoxy filler. Last stage was to place those pieces again under my cnc, and machine them to the correct shape and size. The thin epoxy/carbonfibre 'skin' makes big and lightweight pieces.
Other parts such as the centre pod (on the back of the table, and the center dome (left of picture on top of main saucer), were machined from chemiwood/modelboard/cibatool.
Remainder was ABS plastruct tubing and hemi's, and styrene for the hangar.
Since using the foam and epoxy method, i have come round and started using modelboard again for all newer pieces i build.
Anyhow, here's where i am at the moment. \/
All parts are loose, need glueing and proper filling. I have build nice flat bases from mdf, on top of which i can assemble these parts before making the silicone molds with fibreglass jackets.
More soon.
Thanx for looking.
Cheers,
Wasili
