Star Trek XI ALL THREE Badge-insignia Pototype prop Update Post #58

[NakedMoleRat]

Well, someone had to do it!

This is the prototype that I made based off of the new information released. It is plastic, painted to look like "forged" metal. I will make another for "purposes yet undisclosed" :lol

I know everyone is saying metal, but I think cast rubber is a better way to go for this prop. Or even laser cut plastic, cast resin?

Oh I don't know, the possibilities are endless.....

Putting this one up on eBay to help pay for the project, and all the other ones I'm half stuck on.

On to engineering next....

 

[AnubisGuard]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Very nice!

 

[CSMacLaren]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Oh, very nice! It has a nice retro look, and yet it's very modern because of the finish.

It's amazing how the shape was actually based on two plotted curves that have something to do with Zephram Cochrane's warp mathematics.

 

[Tripper]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Oh, very nice! It has a nice retro look, and yet it's very modern because of the finish.

It's amazing how the shape was actually based on two plotted curves that have something to do with Zephram Cochrane's warp mathematics.

I thought it was an extrapolation of that arrow head thing in the NASA logo? Oh wait you mean the science symbol I get it

 

[SmilingOtter]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Looks great.

(Though to me, it looks like CBS is a division of Starfleet... )

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Looks great.

(Though to me, it looks like CBS is a division of Starfleet... )

The C-adet, B-adge, S-eries.

The officers ger gold! :lol

 

[AshGL1914]

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Looks great, and I'll take a Command insigina please! But...

Actually, shouldn't the color have a light goldish hue to it?

John

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Looks great.

(Though to me, it looks like CBS is a division of Starfleet... )

Thought about that, but I was going off of what was seen everywhere else, which looked silver.

 

[QuasiOdo]

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Ash- Those pics are of the real ones, no?

Funny, I have a pewter-toned pin in my collection that's over ten years old that looks almost exactly like these new ones. It's undersize, though. I was going to scale it up and run it, but it would have been "off."

Do we know the dimensions yet? I'm guessing around 2 in. high, like the old combadges.

 

[AshGL1914]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Ash- Those pics are of the real ones, no?

Yup.

 

[micdavis]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Didn't someone here Photoshop the Command one?

 

[AshGL1914]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Didn't someone here Photoshop the Command one?

Indeed. But the Sci and Eng insignias came from the official movie web site. I still can't fathom that someone out there didn't grab the Command insignia before it was removed from the site.:cry Oh well.

As for the star in the command insignia, I see what the photoshop artist was trying to do (that is to say, to give the star a more dramitic angle, kind of like the other two insignias) but, from all of the promo images out there that contain an Enterprise Command Insignia of one form or other, I think that the star will be straight as usual.

As to color of the insignia I agree that Spock's looks a tad silver but the wallpaper images match up with a picture from months and months ago of a cadet or instructor insignia which appear to be the same but for the lack of division symbol on the Academy version of the insignia.

John

 

[micdavis]

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I really need that third one.

I am prepping them for laser cutting.

The other two are ready. I was hoping some one had the third one.

 

[AshGL1914]

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I really need that third one.

I am prepping them for laser cutting.

The other two are ready. I was hoping some one had the third one.

DIBBS on the Command insignia when you get the image!!!

John

 

[micdavis]

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I'll give a pile of them to whoever finds me that Command one.

 

[AshGL1914]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

Well based on discriptions and...stuff these are two primitive passes at the command insignia I quickly whipped up...

John

 

[micdavis]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

I'd say the bottom one is too big. Do the Eng and Sci symbols inside the dart match in size?

 

[AshGL1914]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

I'd say the bottom one is too big. Do the Eng and Sci symbols inside the dart match in size?

:lolYup! I know that the bottom one's star is toooo big but the old school Trekkie in me likes those proportions better.

The first one however, is (I think) right on the money as far as what I'm seeing (and going crosseyed trying) blowing up tiny images like the group shot and even more so the shot of "Kirk" and "Spock" on the bridge with "Chekov" and 'Sulu" in the background. That size would also be consistent with the others.

Performing a quick cut and paste to check sizes and noting that the Eng and Sci are almost the exact same shape...yes. They occupy the same diameter. Now with the command star placed behind the two we can see that the star (though a diffrent shape) is comparable in size to the other symbols. with a little over for the top beam of the star.

Ooops. I just realised that in the above comparison I used an earlier (less accurate sized) star for the cut and paste mesurement method. Sorry about that. If you look at the final image below you'll find that the proportions of the division symbols are as they should be. Please let me know what you think.

John

 

[prototype7]

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I just absolutely love the fact that the movie is still six months out and props are already being replicated!!!

This site rocks!

 

[AshGL1914]

Re: Star Trek XI Spock's Badge-insignia Pototype prop

I just absolutely love the fact that the movie is still six months out and props are already being replicated!!!

This site rocks!

It always has!:lol

John

p.s. People on a couple of the other Star Trek sites have been speculating about the black uniform that "Kirk" wears through most of the film. Some have suggested that it's some kind of covert ops uniform, others that it's some sort of cadet uniform with some sort of silkscreened insignia on the chest. My take? He's wearing a standard uniform sans department top and the sugestion of an insignia on the top is the residue of a discraced Cadet Kirk having his academy (blank) insignia torn off...or some other such thing. We'll see.-J