USS Spaniard
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I was making this on the quick to realize an idea I had in my head about the USS Kelvin Comm in Star Trek (2009).
I made an interior for the Kelvin Comm that combines 2 descending/sloping angles from outward in that meet at roughly the middle at the base of the midplate. I then produced components and controls which I imagined when I saw the 2009 movie. I'm glad they didn't show the guts of it onscreen, as my mind went wild guessing! When I saw what they did later, I was devastated at their lack of care or thought.
This began as an excellent and accurate kit from Sporak.
To remind everyone, this is what the movie prop makers came up with for the movie version:
These are my "idealized" alterations. (If you do up a Comm using this format, please just note my name when posting/sharing)
To let everyone know, I am a 'tinkerer'. I build things 'pretty' when need be, almost never, and mostly I am in a stage of ideas so I tend to throw things together for the ideas sake, not necessarily to be a pristine showcase model, etc. There is usually glue everywhere and lines that are simply 'straight enough'. That being said I actually am a huge fan of the 70's-80's era of TOS/TOS Movie era props. I love Marco stuff and all the handmade inaccurate Comms, Tric's and Phasers that as a kid I dreamed about from the catalogues and newsletters - these were the pieces that were perfect to me. These were the props I laid awake at night imagining holding in my hands on some distant planet..
All the stuff these days is so pristine and accurate it's almost boring. I could care less for massive China run toys from AA/DST, or for that matter, the Rodd or HMS. Too official and perfect. Anything I get I have to fool with, even reverse engineering them to be inaccurate and more like the 70's 'idealized' stuff that came straight out of your mind's eye, not an HD screen cap.
It is very Star Trek to me, and perhaps somewhat something you may have found in Oscar Goldman's hi-tech briefcase (tho' I never looked - just the obscure feeling I get through the mists of memories)
I made an interior for the Kelvin Comm that combines 2 descending/sloping angles from outward in that meet at roughly the middle at the base of the midplate. I then produced components and controls which I imagined when I saw the 2009 movie. I'm glad they didn't show the guts of it onscreen, as my mind went wild guessing! When I saw what they did later, I was devastated at their lack of care or thought.
This began as an excellent and accurate kit from Sporak.
To remind everyone, this is what the movie prop makers came up with for the movie version:
These are my "idealized" alterations. (If you do up a Comm using this format, please just note my name when posting/sharing)
To let everyone know, I am a 'tinkerer'. I build things 'pretty' when need be, almost never, and mostly I am in a stage of ideas so I tend to throw things together for the ideas sake, not necessarily to be a pristine showcase model, etc. There is usually glue everywhere and lines that are simply 'straight enough'. That being said I actually am a huge fan of the 70's-80's era of TOS/TOS Movie era props. I love Marco stuff and all the handmade inaccurate Comms, Tric's and Phasers that as a kid I dreamed about from the catalogues and newsletters - these were the pieces that were perfect to me. These were the props I laid awake at night imagining holding in my hands on some distant planet..
All the stuff these days is so pristine and accurate it's almost boring. I could care less for massive China run toys from AA/DST, or for that matter, the Rodd or HMS. Too official and perfect. Anything I get I have to fool with, even reverse engineering them to be inaccurate and more like the 70's 'idealized' stuff that came straight out of your mind's eye, not an HD screen cap.
It is very Star Trek to me, and perhaps somewhat something you may have found in Oscar Goldman's hi-tech briefcase (tho' I never looked - just the obscure feeling I get through the mists of memories)
