Freak's Trek Build's

[scifieric]

That looks fantastic, Dean.

[Freak]

Thanks Eric.

[Prime_8]

yeah what eric said

seriously tho , looking good

[Freak]

Thanks P8.

Hoping to start work on the neck this week.

[valkyrie013]

looking great! Mine took forever with all the nurnies and detals..



There a.. quadrangle or something like that in the impulse engine.. behind the vents..

[Freak]

Thanks
Crap looking at that picture it look like I missed the details between the impulse vents.

Also that quadrangle thing behind the vents looks to be the light to light it.

[MadKoifish]

Ship hull should be a flavor of microgramma.

Impulse is a patterning of thick and thin lines on fronted plastic. KIM the shapes behind and the lighting method. I dunno though if the color was a gel or they had a gas in the cfl.

[scifidude79]

Those are some sweet pics, MKF. I've read that the internal lighting was neon.

[MadKoifish]

NEON CFL same thing. I think this one got a custom blown set up like the D did. I find it intresting that you can see the rim grooves inside the housing so the "ending" of those was someone masking and puttying them in.

I think the top photo was during UC or just after I think. I forget if they repainted her just for VH or not, and do not remember if they did anything for FF as much of everything was reshot or new "hero" parts. (I loath that movie so I only watched it absentmindedly maybe 3 times)

[scifidude79]

NEON CFL same thing.

Yeah, I wasn't sure about that. And I wasn't looking it up at the bus stop at 7:34 in the morning.

[MadKoifish]

Well it says 4:34am so it could just be SUPER late. >_>

Compact Fluorescent Lamp, I think.

So yeah if you looked it up it would likely give you stilted info as everything refers to the twisted house bulbs.

But they have more in common that the other types of fluro that I usually think of such as CCF (cold cathode fluorescent) I do not think older studio models used this though. mostly people would have seen these in a lcd or in a pc case in the early 2000s. Also I think when the smith xrayed the refirbed connie it had a few of those house CFLs in.

[scifidude79]

Yeah, I'm in Eastern time. And, for me, 4:30 AM isn't late at all. I work from 10 PM to 7 AM. So, I'd just gotten off work and was a bit tired. I usually roll into bed around 10-something to 11-ish AM, then get up at 5 PM to do it all again.

That's one thing I like about people giving me this kind of info rather than looking it up, the info is usually better organized and more relevant to the discussion when you or someone else who knows about this stuff just tells me.

[Freak]

No update on the Refit Connie build. I am currently banging my head against all with that.
I am currently modelling the neck. As there are no decent plans on how to build it, I am having to use reference pictures. As soon as I get one bit sorted I see an issue somewhere else and correct that. I scrapped what I have built three times so far, but each version is getting closer to how it should look.

With that said, I wanted to take a break from the ship and model something nice and quick.
This is a nice and easy project and the modelling is almost done and should be ready for textures tomorrow.
So here is a sneak Peek, If anyone can guess what it is they win a Cookie.

[scifidude79]

Type 15 Shuttlepod. Looks great, bro.

Yeah, the neck on the Connie refit is a pain.

[scifieric]

Type 15 Shuttlepod. Looks great, bro.

Yeah, the neck on the Connie refit is a pain.

Nice pickup!  I agree, that's what this looks like!