While I enjoy matching my work to screencaps and other references, (and I felt a sense of satisfaction when I extrapolated from the larger size of the TNG season 1 combadge to get the size of the first Ent-D plaque at the 14"x10" someone here remembered Mike Okuda saying) I may well want to make one I can hold in my hands, so it'd be cool to know how (anytime I google for a how to, all I find is digital)
In the meantime I'll keep making my database of the text, layouts, variation in badge and font, etc. Which reminds me, anyone here have any image references for the second Enterprise D plaque? I can only find screencaps of the first one. I'd like to know where Franklin Mint (and now Eaglemoss) got the reference for star-shapes in the corners.