This is a kit I've been sitting on for years, and now it's almost finished. Here's where it stands as of tonight:
I personally think this is one of the most interesting weapons to come out of any Trek series post TOS. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's the best looking, or even the best designed. It's just the most brutal. For those of you who have not seen the episode "The Most Toys," where this phaser made it's debut, the background story is that this particular phaser has been outlawed, as it kills in the most insidious way. It dissolves you from the inside out, so you're conscious for the entire event. I think they stated that there were only five of them in existence.
The Most Toys is one of the first truly great episodes of TNG, in my opinion, and perhaps that is another reason this phaser holds such an interesting place for me.
The other thing I like about this piece is that the Varon T is often mis-identified. In many cases, an odd looking phaser is often dubbed a Varon-T by fans. While this phaser made a few appearances throughout the trek shows, what you saw a lot MORE of were variants of this phaser. The base components that were used to build it were cobbled together in a number of different ways, to forum a multitude of phaser designs. But this one is the first. The original.
Here's a recent blog post that shows some work I did on the phaser tonight. Prior to this, it had been mostly painstaking reconstruction of some of the ribs on the emitter. The original casting had a bunch of air bubbles that needed to be fixed.
The Project Workbench: Varon-T Almost Complete
There are a few more tiny details to be completed on this piece before it's done ,but you get the general idea.
Thanks for looking!
I personally think this is one of the most interesting weapons to come out of any Trek series post TOS. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's the best looking, or even the best designed. It's just the most brutal. For those of you who have not seen the episode "The Most Toys," where this phaser made it's debut, the background story is that this particular phaser has been outlawed, as it kills in the most insidious way. It dissolves you from the inside out, so you're conscious for the entire event. I think they stated that there were only five of them in existence.
The Most Toys is one of the first truly great episodes of TNG, in my opinion, and perhaps that is another reason this phaser holds such an interesting place for me.
The other thing I like about this piece is that the Varon T is often mis-identified. In many cases, an odd looking phaser is often dubbed a Varon-T by fans. While this phaser made a few appearances throughout the trek shows, what you saw a lot MORE of were variants of this phaser. The base components that were used to build it were cobbled together in a number of different ways, to forum a multitude of phaser designs. But this one is the first. The original.
Here's a recent blog post that shows some work I did on the phaser tonight. Prior to this, it had been mostly painstaking reconstruction of some of the ribs on the emitter. The original casting had a bunch of air bubbles that needed to be fixed.
The Project Workbench: Varon-T Almost Complete
There are a few more tiny details to be completed on this piece before it's done ,but you get the general idea.
Thanks for looking!
I swear, if I could just get comfortable having weathered props in my collection, I could save myself a lot of time and heartache. But in general,unless the thing was weathered in the show (and I don't mean beated up due to actor mishandling) I prefer to have them pristine.
