OK thats it! No more!! I am done!!! :confused Wait their was something else something that was gnawing away in the back of my head... :eek thats right I still hadnt done my Borg ship. When I looked over the parts that were left I saw all these cut up pieces of Cardboard box and then it hit me I have got plenty of this to make a ship. I first measured out for some solid shapes and to get a good Basic Geometric shape I came up with a tetrahedron. It fit all my criteria. Geometric Simple and never been done before! (at least to my knowledge). I originally thought of a pyramid but that has 5 sides and the Tetrahedron is only four. As Luck would have it I still had 4 largish pieces of cardboard from the two boxes so I measured and cut my 4 equilateral triangles. glued them together. which was a PAIN! in the end I had to cut little braces/hinges for the inside to hold the panels together. I then put down a coat of Dark Gray. Next I cut a bunch of short strips and glued them down randomly to each side to form a sort of girder base. The another coat of gray fallowed by a heavy green Dry brush to really pull out the edges and give it some color. After that I cut longer strips that I again put on randomly but I let them fold over the edges. this was fallowed by more gray and green Dry Brush. For the next layer I cut a bunch of little shapes, mostly triangles but some other random polygons as well. I then used these to fill in the holes left by the strips and also to fill spaces between the strips. For paint this time, Yup you guessed it. Dark gray with a green dry brush. But wait! This time I also tried to add a little red dry brush and unexpectedly (at least to me) it came out a nice rusty redish brown. Ok note for future red and green make brown...:love I than proceeded to my final layer which was more strips but this time I put them on in a grid like pattern to give the outside a look of order and structure. The final layer of paint was the same as before Dark Gray, Green dry brush and a few red dry brush hits for texture and age. After this was done I said Enough! well actually it was my wife as she wanted me to come to bed. :love :love. Ok enough of that. The next day, or somewhere in there, as I sat down to my computer I saw the post in the Kontest thread about giving our ships history. Well I thought that was great and as I did my research I came up with this great story of how all these ships came to be. I got the name for my romulan vessel from the TNG Cannon. I used TS = Tal Shiar in the registry I was going to use 187 (police code for murder) but thought it was to gangster so I changed it to 185. The name Rekal was the name Troy was given when she was abducted by the Romulans and turned into a Tal Shiar agent. I wanted the ship to be a little mean like the romulans so I made it a Military Scout since the Tal Shiar were a semi-military group. Of course since my Starfleet ships were actually Terran Empire ( I am really happy to see I was not the only one to go with the Terran Empire) this all could have worked. The next time I want online I found our word count got cut. Not a bad thing as I was getting out of control. So I went back to the drawing board and condensed my story to a short scene. Which I thought was great as it lent to the imagination. Now I just needed to create that Scene. The first two pics I took I tried to get good 3/4 shots that would give you a fair glimpse of all sides of the ships.
As a note since I used my stands as parts in the making of my ships I was left to make new stands. In keeping with the rules I only used what was in the Kits and painted with only the colors available to us. More cardboard box and Dark Gray paint.
Ok back to the ramblings of a crazy man.
For the Third shot I wanted some action. I also finally figured out a way to use the cellophane from the kits. (a minor goal of mine since I asked if it could be used) I cut some cellophane and painted the edge a mixture of red and copper (not that you can really see the copper) then I rolled it up and tacked down the outside flap. viola Phaser Beam! Next I cut a triangle of Cellophane and put swirls of copper paint on it. Once I thought it had dried I tried to put a layer of green on top but it lifted the copper in some places and balled it up. After I was done I looked at it and thought well that sucks cause now it looks even more like a tractor beam...
love:wacko. which is what I was going for. :thumbsup Finally I grabbed a scrap of cellophane threw on some green a little red perhaps a pinch of copper and crumpled it up put a dab of glue on it to help it hold it's shape and the next thing I have is one explosion. After some fiddling around and a few funny faces I was ready for the final shot and the rest is 5th place History!
Thanks for fallowing this epic journey of mine and if you have any comments or questions dont be afraid to ask. No Really don't be afraid... awww come back........ LOL
