Eric Ardros
Sr Member
Though I've never been a fan of the first feature film, I have to admit some of the props they made for it were pretty kewl. One of those, of course, being the Wrist Communicator:
I got these off eBay a while back, and came across them recently going through all of my unfinished kits (too many to count, lol).
They're both the same size and shape, and fairly accurate, however research into the screen-used originals showed these were too large to what the actors wore.
An interesting little fact, the TOS actors for the most part are fairly small people. Even Leonard Nimoy, though tall, was a very thin guy during TMP with very small-looking wrists. As a result, the originals are smaller than people think.
What happens is, many fans may be substantially bigger in the wrist area than the original TOS actors. As a result, rather than sizing the wrist band to suit their needs, they typically upscale the comm itself resulting in some substantially oversized replicas.
Being the stickler for detail and accuracy that I am, lol, once I was made aware the oversized nature of the wrist comms I had in my possession, I was motivated to scratch-build a screen-accurate replica for myself.
Below are a series of WiP pics leading up to the finished product:
06/13
11/13
It measures 2 5/8" tall by 1 1/4" wide, considerably smaller than any other replica made to date (pic below is a comparison to the versions at the beginning of this thread):
Of course, the finished ones shown above were actually done for clients, as I've molded/casted my styrene master to make kits from. I have one of these, with a slight typo in the "ER - 2/8" area above the black "faceplate" up top, that I plan to sell at Ottawa Pop Expo in December.
The colder weather prohibits primer and/or paint from adhering properly to anything prop-wise (I do all my painting in the garage), so until warmer springtime/summer weather comes around again I won't be able to do one of these up for my own collection. It'll be great when I do, though :cool
I got these off eBay a while back, and came across them recently going through all of my unfinished kits (too many to count, lol).
They're both the same size and shape, and fairly accurate, however research into the screen-used originals showed these were too large to what the actors wore.
An interesting little fact, the TOS actors for the most part are fairly small people. Even Leonard Nimoy, though tall, was a very thin guy during TMP with very small-looking wrists. As a result, the originals are smaller than people think.
What happens is, many fans may be substantially bigger in the wrist area than the original TOS actors. As a result, rather than sizing the wrist band to suit their needs, they typically upscale the comm itself resulting in some substantially oversized replicas.
Being the stickler for detail and accuracy that I am, lol, once I was made aware the oversized nature of the wrist comms I had in my possession, I was motivated to scratch-build a screen-accurate replica for myself.
Below are a series of WiP pics leading up to the finished product:
06/13
11/13
It measures 2 5/8" tall by 1 1/4" wide, considerably smaller than any other replica made to date (pic below is a comparison to the versions at the beginning of this thread):
Of course, the finished ones shown above were actually done for clients, as I've molded/casted my styrene master to make kits from. I have one of these, with a slight typo in the "ER - 2/8" area above the black "faceplate" up top, that I plan to sell at Ottawa Pop Expo in December.
The colder weather prohibits primer and/or paint from adhering properly to anything prop-wise (I do all my painting in the garage), so until warmer springtime/summer weather comes around again I won't be able to do one of these up for my own collection. It'll be great when I do, though :cool
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