Ressikan Flute
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modelnut
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Penny Whistle forum thread on the Ressikan flute and Chattaway music.
I still can’t believe Penny is no longer with us......
Man it sure looks like moderately worn brass on the screen. Does anyone have any idea what sort of finish you can apply to aluminum to make it look that good? It doesn't look like most spray jobs I've seen.
modelnut
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Thank you, Nick!
Those pictures are wonderful!
Now I must figure out how anal I want to be.
My flute is 29 cm long. The Factory Entertainment flute is 26.4.
Using your images the box looks to be 34.5 x 13 x 13 cm. That is supposing FE's flute is the same size as the prop. Otherwise, using my flute for scale, it might be 38 x 14 x 14. FE's box is 31.5 x 9 x 8. My box (Woodpile Rectangle Box from Hobby Lobby) is 34.3 x 10.5 x 9.5.
I think I will go with my box. The only change I will make is moving the hinges to the middle of the box. As it is the hinges are 6.5 cm from the bottom and 3 cm from the top. Then I have to replicate the finish.
Thank you for your help!
- Leelan
Those pictures are wonderful!
Now I must figure out how anal I want to be.
My flute is 29 cm long. The Factory Entertainment flute is 26.4.
Using your images the box looks to be 34.5 x 13 x 13 cm. That is supposing FE's flute is the same size as the prop. Otherwise, using my flute for scale, it might be 38 x 14 x 14. FE's box is 31.5 x 9 x 8. My box (Woodpile Rectangle Box from Hobby Lobby) is 34.3 x 10.5 x 9.5.
I think I will go with my box. The only change I will make is moving the hinges to the middle of the box. As it is the hinges are 6.5 cm from the bottom and 3 cm from the top. Then I have to replicate the finish.
Thank you for your help!
- Leelan
My flute is 29 cm long. The Factory Entertainment flute is 26.4.
Using your images the box looks to be 34.5 x 13 x 13 cm. That is supposing FE's flute is the same size as the prop. Otherwise, using my flute for scale, it might be 38 x 14 x 14. FE's box is 31.5 x 9 x 8. My box (Woodpile Rectangle Box from Hobby Lobby) is 34.3 x 10.5 x 9.5.
I think I will go with my box. The only change I will make is moving the hinges to the middle of the box. As it is the hinges are 6.5 cm from the bottom and 3 cm from the top. Then I have to replicate the finish.
The original flute and box went up for sale a while back, and the dimensions given for the box were 12½x3½x3½in. Note that auction dimensions like these vary in their accuracy from listing to listing, so take them with a grain of salt as it's entirely possible they are rounded off by +- 1/8 or 1/4 inch or so. But they give a good general idea.
Star Trek Auction Listings Archive - Item 1778-0537
If the 12.5" box length in the auction is accurate, that means the original flute was about 10.125" (~257 mm) based on screen caps.
I'd say your box seems more or less proportionally appropriate for the length of your penny whistle - both flute and box will be larger overall but they'll look in scale to each other!
phase pistol would you happen to still have your photos of the flute from SDCC 2006? Would be great to see them!
Ressikan flute prop from Christies' auction on display at SDCC 2006
Awesome, thank you!
modelnut
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Thank you!
Hmmm. I bought a bronze/gold spray paint to finish the flute. I guess I should have bought copper. The images I could pull up on my phone at the store looked more golden than copper. And the flute looks gold in a few scenes in the episode. But, in most of these images, it is definitely copper.
I just finished splitting the box in half by cutting a section out of the bigger half and gluing it to the thinner top section. I don't have a workshop or a saw. But I do have a spare bedroom and a Dremel tool. I will let the glue set overnight. Tomorrow I will deal with the seam and the rough edges.
I puttied the seam on the flute with Apoxie after spraying it with Krylon primer grey. Sanding tomorrow. We will see how many repeats come after.
I don't know how I can make those raised silver flanges around the holes in the flute. I guess I will settle for bright silver paint.
- Leelan
Hmmm. I bought a bronze/gold spray paint to finish the flute. I guess I should have bought copper. The images I could pull up on my phone at the store looked more golden than copper. And the flute looks gold in a few scenes in the episode. But, in most of these images, it is definitely copper.
I just finished splitting the box in half by cutting a section out of the bigger half and gluing it to the thinner top section. I don't have a workshop or a saw. But I do have a spare bedroom and a Dremel tool. I will let the glue set overnight. Tomorrow I will deal with the seam and the rough edges.
I puttied the seam on the flute with Apoxie after spraying it with Krylon primer grey. Sanding tomorrow. We will see how many repeats come after.
I don't know how I can make those raised silver flanges around the holes in the flute. I guess I will settle for bright silver paint.
- Leelan
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The grommet looking pieces were added for Nemesis, so you can leave them off for a TNG version! Check out the close-up from "Lessons" (first image in Nick's post) for a look at the simple flat pads. Could use discs of chrome vinyl/sticker material, or paint silver first and mask them with circles of tape before painting the brass color.
Thank you for confirming that, I just pulled up The Inner Light and Lessons and couldn't for the life of me find a scene with those on it. It honestly looks like just chrome tape to me, same with the side bars by the mouthpiece and the silver band. The episode footage hasn't convinced me that there's three-dimensionality to the side bars or the silver band either, so tape / stickers would work for me.
It looks brassy in the episodes to me, not coppery, I think that's just the way it's tarnished over time. Either that or they made a totally different one for Nemesis, but everything else seems to line up pretty well.
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modelnut
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I watched "The Inner Light" last night on Amazon Prime. In some scenes it looked golden bronze and in some scenes definitely gleaming copper. Otherwise I was thinking that the copper sheen was added along with the raised grommets before it made it to Christie's.
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You're right, MrWax. I can see that now. There is no square dent between the flute and the mouthpiece as there is in the filmed prop.
Thanks for linking this, I was trying to find the video where he said it didn't play. You're right, very cool!
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