Star Trek Rank Pips

trekcolencc1701 · Jun 7, 2016

Any Info, anyone have some of these ???

http://www.amazon.com/TNG-Captain-P...e=UTF8&qid=1465348261&ref_=sxr_pd_sm_se1&sr=1

Iggy · Jun 8, 2016

Why not get a magnetic set like the Anovos ones?

Those from the reviews have pins that poke through the uniform and go into the pip (kind of like an earring). I personally wouldn't want to poke holes in my uniform unless I really had to.

trekcolencc1701 · Jun 8, 2016

Iggy said:
Why not get a magnetic set like the Anovos ones?

Those from the reviews have pins that poke through the uniform and go into the pip (kind of like an earring). I personally wouldn't want to poke holes in my uniform unless I really had to.

Ive done research and these a nearly exact replicas of the original screen used ones, My uniform is going to be 100% screen accurate ( if even possible, probably is not ), the originals even sometimes used earring clasps and all the screen used ones poked through the uniforms, With that said, I have the undershirt in command red and if anything I will put them on and that will be it, they will stay on for its life ( unless I wash it ), if I wanted to I could buy teal and gold undershirts and just buy more of them ( After all they are only 20 bucks compared to the 60-$75 Anovos ones that are nowhere near accurate. I originally was going to buy the Anovos, but I need to save money for the Star Trek Convention and Comic Con.

Iggy · Jun 8, 2016

Gotcha. In that case, as long as the colors are right, it seems to have decent reviews. I would say try them, or you could make your own with pins.

Roland · Jun 8, 2016

trekcolencc1701 said:
Ive done research and these a nearly exact replicas of the original screen used ones, My uniform is going to be 100% screen accurate ( if even possible, probably is not ), the originals even sometimes used earring clasps and all the screen used ones poked through the uniforms, With that said, I have the undershirt in command red and if anything I will put them on and that will be it, they will stay on for its life ( unless I wash it ), if I wanted to I could buy teal and gold undershirts and just buy more of them ( After all they are only 20 bucks compared to the 60-$75 Anovos ones that are nowhere near accurate. I originally was going to buy the Anovos, but I need to save money for the Star Trek Convention and Comic Con.

Are the screen used rank pips actually from cheap painted plastic? I know the original communicator badges are just plastic, but I always thought the pips are from metal.

trekcolencc1701 · Jun 8, 2016

Roland said:
Are the screen used rank pips actually from cheap painted plastic? I know the original communicator badges are just plastic, but I always thought the pips are from metal.

Nope not metal for most, think about it….. they were spending so much money for the shows, and for something so small and less visible onscreen for every star fleet actor, than other stuff, they were made of either resin or plastic, I think resin was the most commonly used especially for the Com-badges, as I have a exact replica of the com badge and it is a plastiky resin. I believe the Com badges were made of the same resin too. Thats the key to Star Trek props..Resin…Resin and More Resin. Even some tricorders and props were mostly painted resin out of molds. But to answer you question yes metal was used for most main actors…sisko..picard..riker

So yes maybe not cheap plastic, but…. some resins used resembled cheap plastic, and they rarely used metal for anything. Watch " First Contact ", when they have close ups of Data in the beginning his rank pips are clearly not metal.

trekcolencc1701 · Jun 8, 2016

trekcolencc1701 said:
Nope not metal for most, think about it….. they were spending so much money for the shows, and for something so small and less visible onscreen for every star fleet actor, than other stuff, they were made of either resin or plastic, I think resin was the most commonly used especially for the Com-badges, as I have a exact replica of the com badge and it is a plastiky resin. I believe the Com badges were made of the same resin too. Thats the key to Star Trek props..Resin…Resin and More Resin. Even some tricorders and props were mostly painted resin out of molds. But to answer you question yes metal was used for most main actors…sisko..picard..riker

So yes maybe not cheap plastic, but…. some resins used resembled cheap plastic, and they rarely used metal for anything. Watch " First Contact ", when they have close ups of Data in the beginning his rank pips are clearly not metal.

Update, so yes metal was primary used, mainly for those main characters captains, and so on. But…some, very minimal such as mentioned " Data" were made of resin. I just did more research and found that out… Sorry for any initial confusion

Apollo · Jun 12, 2016

The pips were antiqued brass.

iirc the ones made for Anovos are made by the same person who did them for the show.

Get both if you can, I know Anovos is out of stock but they really are beautiful, the anovos is on my Next Gen Tunic and they look EXACTLY like the ones I saw when I was on set

trekcolencc1701 · Jun 12, 2016

Apollo said:
The pips were antiqued brass.

iirc the ones made for Anovos are made by the same person who did them for the show.

Get both if you can, I know Anovos is out of stock but they really are beautiful, the anovos is on my Next Gen Tunic and they look EXACTLY like the ones I saw when I was on set

Thanks Apollo, I am very much considering getting both, but for the price and since Anovos is out of stock ill get the resin ones, repaint them and then as soon as Anovos Re-stocks ill pick some up

Star Trek Rank Pips

trekcolencc1701

Active Member

Iggy

Sr Member

trekcolencc1701

Active Member

Iggy

Sr Member

Roland

Master Member

trekcolencc1701

Active Member

trekcolencc1701

Active Member

Apollo

Legendary Member

trekcolencc1701

Active Member

Similar threads