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scifidragon
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Приєднався 23 січ 2021
My videos are about science fiction models, military models, and the art of model making.
Відео
MY STAR TREK COLLECTION - PART 2A - TREK TECH
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My Star Trek technology collection from the TV series and movies - including a Universal Translator replica, communicators, and tricorders.
MY STAR TREK COLLECTION - PART 2B - TREK TECH
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More Star Trek tech collectibles from the TV series and movies - includes the TOS PADD, TNG PADDs, intercoms, and Dr. McCoy's medical equipment (includes unique & upgraded items), AND Mr. Spock's beacon prop replica.
MY STAR TREK COLLECTION - PART 3A - TOS & PRE-TOS WEAPONS
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What all Trekkers love! My collection of Star Trek weapons - Klingon battle knife, original TV Klingon Disruptor. Type-1 & Type-II phasers (TOS Seasons 1-3). Pilot episodes laser pistols. Enterprise phase pistol.
MY STAR TREK COLLECTION - PART 3B - TREK WEAPONS (Next Gen +)
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More of what you love! My Star Trek weapons collection from The Next Generation, Discovery, and movies. Phasers (Cricket, Dustbuster, Cobra, Boomerang, Discovery Type-II, TMP & WOK, Battle/Assault phaser, 2009 movie phaser.), Romulan disruptor.
MY STAR TREK COLLECTION - PART 1 - NOVELTY ITEMS & GENERAL MEMORABILIA
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My collection of Star Trek novelty items & general memorabilia. Includes trading cards, comics, books, pins, figures, autographs AND some rare / unique items like socks, dilithium crystal displays, custom hand-made Trek inspired Vulcan Meditation crystals...
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN Scale Vignette
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From a golden-oldie TV show - My Favorite Martian's single-seat UFO. Complete with Mrs. Brown's garage and (Ray Walston) Martian figure. UFO engine and controls have LED lighting effects.
A REALISTIC TNG DESKTOP MONITOR
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How to make a realistic Next Generation desktop monitor that displays multiple screen images automatically!
MICRO MODELING - THE LAST WORD
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A quick demo of using an LCD microscope to assist in soldering circuit boards (and view & check soldering connections).
MICRO MODELING - TEST RESULTS
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Results of tests using my LCD microscope to work with tiny model parts and for small parts painting. Includes images & video taken directly by the microscope .
BETHLEHEM STABLE - A Christmas Build
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Something different. Scratch-building a plastic & wood model of the Christmas stable in Bethlehem.
A SIMPLE BLASTER
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Full scale prop replicas from the fantastic sci-fi movie, FORBIDDEN PLANET. A demo of 2 Forbidden Planet blaster pistols.
TNG DESK MONITOR
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A scratch-built interpretation of the Star Trek TNG desktop monitor. Custom made LCARS screens displayed automatically on an LCD screen. A segment with some naughty-bits (blurred - but use your imagination).
MICROSCOPIC MODELING
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Using a digital / LCD microscope to enlarge small model parts for painting or detailing - includes review of instructions, explanation of operation, and brief demo.
MY WRATH of KHAN TRICORDER
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A unique Star Trek movie prop replica! My full-scale build of the Wrath of Khan tricorder.
Can I ask how you created the cascading synchronized j light effects on the Computer storage banks ? How do you turn each strand on and off like that?
Pretty cool video. Ignore the trolls. Did you actually build that Franz phaser?
Thanks for the supportive comment, it's much appreciated. Yes, I built it. It started as a solid resin casting - I drilled it out (Dremel) & added the light/sound electronics & trigger button switches + metal parts.
You're a doofus. Dilithium is never described as a "power source." It is only used to focus and regulate power.
I think now a days they assume you'll use the box art as your paint and decal placement. There was one episode in the 2nd season (All That Glisters) where they modified the stun gun to fire out of all 4 laser ports at once.
Thanks for the comment. Yes, but I think model companies have done that for a very long time. Some instructions do have detailed directions for painting & decaling, but a lot of kits are vague at best and I've built a few kits that had no painting directions at all. Oh, well. I suppose having 60 yrs experience helps, but this could be a problem for newbees...
great video very extensive re the models of phazers on startrek. I have one of the Rodenbury types didn't realize how many types until now.
Thanks for the comment. I didn't realize there were so many TOS variations either, not until I started building phasers and had to do research to get the details right - well, to get the details anyway (lol).
Take that, Icky Space Monsters!!!!
TNG pads are thick enough, I bet you could make a case around some generic thin tablet and have a "working" model, so to speak. Well done!
Hi. Thanks for watching. These PADDs were thick enough but not hollow enough. Of course, I could've cut away most of the center plate, but I was afraid of damaging the kit and it still wouldn't have had enough space for a small tablet.... Hmm, maybe I could've vacu-formed a new shell - plenty of room in there.... Thanks for giving me something to think about....
I just, recently, purchased a non-electronic, 3D, solid RESIN printed ST-Discovery Phaser II pistol, from Etsy that is of the highest collectible/collector prop quality workmanship'craftsmanship, from a gentleman model/prop maker/hobbyist, from either Switzerland or Norway ( I am from the Northeast U.S. ), who made a very limited edition, 3D print run of these. The prop was 3D printed on a 3D resin printer made for liquid resin and was carefully cleaned up and worked over, after the initial printing, and was very well detailed and given a professional 3 coat automotive paint job ( coat of primer with two coats of matte black, metallic gold and silver ). This is one beautiful PHASER prop This PHASER prop has plenty of tactile features, like some turning dials and turning front emitter nozzle ( to turn to all three different beam emitters ), all with the help of very strong magnets. Turning forward side body dials and working ( turn up or down ) trigger safety on/off switch. A solid resin P1 hand PHASER, that is removable, but, sadly, no working dials or flip up scanner on this fan made prop. The PHASER II handle grip power pack is removable and is held inside the grip with, again, strong magnets! Another unfortunate, none of these props have any sort of working ( spring loaded? ) triggers. The triggers, themselves, are just static, non-moving components/elements. Despite no lights or sounds, this ST-Discovery PHASER has both tactile removable and moving parts which make this collector prop quite interactive. It comes with a customer designed and resin 3D printed display base that holds the entire PHASER, in place and can display some separate, removable parts of this ST[Discovery PHASER. In addition this prop came with another, separate, fully 3D resin printed, worked and painted/detailed P1 hand PHASER, so you can display a P1 hand PHASER separately, on the display without having to remove the P1 PHASER that is still attached to P2 PHASER pistol prop! Brilliant! 10:22
Thanks for watching my video. The P-1 on the Discovery phaser is a bit 'clunky' but overall the Discovery phaser is a very nice design. Yours sounds like it'll be a really cool display piece. Enjoy...
@@scifi_dragon I, actually, like the Discovery P1 hand PHASER!. I like the size and the weight/heft of thIs model/prop piece, as well. And, the two level indent/split planes/surfaces,on the bottom side, of the Discovery P1 hand PHASER, is a good location for the trigger and that bottom split level/planes/surfaces are very similar to the ST-TNG small “cricket” style hand PHASER, which has this similar bottom, split level planes/surfaces. Believe it or not, the TNG small “cricket” style PHASER is almost the same length, width and thickness ( height ) of the ST-TOS P1 hand PHASER. It is only the design of the TNG “cricket” PHASER that makes it look and feel smaller, but it really isn't as small as ST fans state. If you have an accurately scaled TNG “cricket” ( to my eyes, looking at the design, the TNG small hand PHASER looks and sits more like a Praying Mantis ) PHASER, compare that to a TOS P1 to confirm the size similarity.
Your “Bradley Nelson,” “ Star Trek Phase II” PHASER is just terrible and bares little to no resemblance to an actual Brad Nelson “Star Trek Phase II” PHASER or the resin replica kits that were made by casting off a mould from an actual Brad Nelson Phase II PHASER. Yours is a mess and is just not a great attempt. Things not in the proper locations. The top rear settings dial is way too far back!. Also, no details on that top rear surface of the PHASER. Brad's PHASERS had much more prominent round cast edges and corners. There were fewer rear fins and the fins were part of the casted body and not a seperate piece. Your BN version has too many and seperate piece/s fins. This is not correct, either. The P1 is just a mess. ( Later versions of the BN P1 hand PHASER used an aluminium rectangular piece, for the heat aspiration/venting grille, that looked a helluva lot more functional than that stupid, more decorative looking, “rainbow effect” sticky tape that really didn’t look functional, at all! Your version of a Brasley Nelson PHASER just isn’t it. Sorry, but it isn't and it is not even close. Just an awful attempt. Maybe you should consider another attempt, again, at a Brad Nelson PHASER and, this time, try and find and start with a TOS PHASER kit that is done as a resin model kit that would allow for much better modifications of the body and allow you to more accurately place parts and elements of BN ST-Phase II PHASER. Your version just does not look, at all, like a Bradley Nelson PHASER. Again, sorry. The major key element to buiding a BN PHASER, from any TOS PHASER kit is trying to recreate/modify tge kit to get all of the softer, rounded casted edges/corners of Brad Nelson PHASER. That is the real key element/challenge. This can be more convincingly done/modified using a resin style PHASER kit than with a fiberglass or vacuformed kit
Thanks for watching and the comment. You're certainly entitled to your opinion but I owned a Brad Nelson phaser, and except for the 'dc meter' in the P-I this replica is very close to the original.
Very very cool
Cool video lost of knowledge thank you so much
Do you plan to do the Universal Translator?
Hi. Thanks for watching. Not for a while yet, I'm still figuring out what materials I'd use.
@4:28 "Go out for a pass."
When I was in elementary school back in the 70's, one of my friends had the Starfleet Technical manual and we made type 1 phasers out of cardboard. I wish I could find that thing. I probably remember it being better than it actually was, but at the time it was awesome. We were going to make the Type II to accompany it, but it was always too unstable so we never did finish that. I own the Technical manual now myself, I should try again...
Thanks for watching. I work mostly in various forms of plastic, but using other materials to create models or replicas is very cool. If you want to try your cardboard phaser build again, I say - go for it. BTW, here's an idea for you, there's a video on UA-cam where a woman builds a type-II phaser from 'florist foam' (that really stiff styrofoam used as a base for floral arrangements). I wish I could remember the video's title, but if you do a search you might find it and get some ideas how to do something similar.
Nice job! It's hard to know whether to be amazed that the TOS people could predict tablets in 1967 or amused that the "23rd Century" device is so big and clunky compared to a modern tablet from just 50 years later.
Thanks for watching. It' may just be a case of the Next Gen props team seeing the TOS PADD and saying "that's cool, we need one of those....." Anyway, it's not so surprising that PADDs got smaller, look at our phones, now they fit in a pocket. Micro-circuitry, what a concept!
The "Tech Manual" phaser drawings were done by Franz Joseph *years* after the initial drawings were used to make the props themselves. The Making of Star Trek was published in 1968 - 7 years later. As such; there is no way that a photo of the "Tech Manual" phaser was in the book. The drawings in the book were used to provide detail to Wah Chang for when he reworked the hero phasers after Desilu's prop team botched their initial attempt. Like many Gen One Star Trek fans; I love the Tech Manual for it's unique place in our lives. But let's not confuse fiction and reality by trying to assert that it was used as inspiration for anything that we saw in the original series. Instead, it is the result of intense study by Franz Joseph to document somethings that had not been documented before.
Thanks for all the info. I never said the Tech Manual was the original design, nor that it was inspiration for the design - only that this particular phaser design appeared in both the Tech Manual and the Making of Star Trek. I would hope anyone curious about the design would read both publications.
Have you seen "Et and friends" , a documentary about SciFi movies.. hosted by Robin Williams. at 6 mins in he does a used spaceship sketch.
Hi. No, I haven't seen it. Looks like my twisted mind works much like Robin's... that's cool with me (lol).... Thanks for the info and for watching!
I always found Star-Trek Tec very interesting. thanks for sharing 😀👍
Nice collection.
thank you! I enjoyed watching !
OMG, serious mental health issues here with this guy...This guy dresses up like he's in the show, lol! Seek help with your local mental heath folk's. LOL
Fascinating. I give it 2 🖖🖖 up
For God's sake DON'T feed the Tribble!!! 🤣👍. 🤘😎🖖🇨🇦
I have one with the communicator
Did you ever see the cellphone version of the TOS communicator. i think you pair t with Bluetooth from memory.
Yes, that's the one from WAND. I have one, it's great! Such fun getting phone calls & answering on a communicator!
@@scifi_dragon Cool. Have you seen the chap who's building a huge scale TOS Enterprise?
I carry mine from time to time to annoy my family, i get strange looks in public when i get a call and i open it and answer.
Those flip tops were so cool back in the day. I still have my old Nokia flip from the 90's sitting on my shelf. It was the moment the future came to town. Wah Chang really did some beautiful work with the materials of the time. He also did the Pal Time Machine, I think.
I don't know about Mr Chang, but, yeah, flip phones were super-cool. I hate 'smart phones' - too much 'stuff' that don't belong on a 'phone'.
@@scifi_dragon You must research Projects unlimited and Wah Chang. Very important to the TOS look.
The original ipad.
Indeed. Just like communicators were the original flip-phone... Thanks for watching my videos, and for the comments.
You can't go wrong with a good classic TOS phaser. I had the Art Asylum one.
So true. I've seen a lot of toy 'phasers' over the years - compared to the 'phasers' of the late 60s & early 70s the AA phaser is truly amazing and very well rendered.
Really nice quality stuff. 15:00 favorite design, based on a Glock?
Hmm... Not sure what you're referring to. I don't think any Trek weapons look much like a Glock.
@@scifi_dragon the "Assault Phaser" that was based on a Beretta handgun..? The safety catch would be a way to figure out what model Baretta. The long magazine is a giveaway.
@@mrwoodandmrtinIt was apparently based on the Beretta 92F.
@@markfergerson2145 Ahh, good to know. As soon as I picked that phaser up, I could tell it was based on a real gun by the way it fit in your hand. Moust prop ray guns don't get that right.
I never liked that book it almost always contradicted everything we saw in the original Television series.
At NYC Trek Cons, I met a lot of folks who worked on TOS. One thing they all agreed on was that there was no systematic record keeping back then. Example - nobody knows exactly how many of any kind of prop was built or used. SO, its easy to understand why different sources (like the book) would have contradictory information.
Dale - I got this phaser in kit form, unassembled & unpainted. I believe I may have gotten it on eBay and paid about $65 - $70 for it. I'm sure a fully assembled version would've cost me a lot more.
You have amazing talent & patience to pull off such a masterpiece.
As I recall, There is a photo of a physical Tech Manual phaser prop in the the book "The making on Star trek" by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry. I have been baffled for over 40 years by the differences between the prop in photo in the book and the props we've seen in TOS. Thank you for solving the mystery.
Hello dalebachman2892. Thanks for the comment. Yes, there is a photo of the Tech Manual phaser in 'The Making of Star Trek' - my best guess is that the photo shows a mock-up of the proposed prop for the production staff to examine.
Hey, 65CJ5. Thanks for the comment. Very interesting, I love when people figure out how to DIY something - well done.
I made one back in the day from the tech manual drawings. It was all we had at the time. Mine looked just like the one you show but mine was all black, and was made mostly of balsa wood with some hardwood for the beam emmiter and top control. My phaser separated into the hand phaser and lower section. For the time it was pretty good!
How does this not have more views? Great video! Awesome work!
Thanks very much. If you like my videos, spread the word - maybe that'll push the view count up. Thanks again.
It's a Westinghouse chicken brooder.
LOL - funny, I thought it was a Westinghouse waffle iron....
I have a painted resin reproduction of the phaser II from "The Omega Glory". It's surprisingly accurate to the movie prop for a fan repro. It was purchased in the late 1970's at a Trek Convention in Minneapolis, along with a communicator replica which is also a dummy prop of good quality. Back in the day, Star Trek was hugely popular and I paid to dollar for those props, and I still have them today.
Thanks for commenting. Yes, the 1970s thru the 1990s saw a lot of well made, 'fan replicas' and 'garage kits' come on the market. You could always find something interesting at a Trek con. Many of those products, like the excellent plastic 23rd Century Pistol kit (Phaser-II) have disappeared lately or become so rare and expensive they're no longer worth the price. BTW, did you know the 23rd Cent Pistol was originally marketed as a PHASER-II kit, then a PHAZER-II kit? It only became the 23rd Cent Pistol after Paramount filed law suits charging trademark and copyright infringement. Greedy creeps...
I hope this is not to personal but not having the oppertunity to go to a Star Trek convention in the 70's or 80's, I was wondering what you paid for the phaser and communicator? I heard or read somewhere it was around $100.00 for the phaser back then.
@@dalebachman2892 I paid $150 for the Phaser and $80 for the communicator. That was top dollar Back then. I wasn't exactly rich being a high school student, so you can understand how badly I wanted them. The replicas were high quality and hand made, and the price reflected that. The maker spent time on research and got the details very close to the original props, which was very hard to find back then. As time went on, replicas got generally better.
@@dalebachman2892 I paid $120 for the phaser, and $80 for the communicator. That's a lot of money for a young man in the 70's, no regrets since I was a fan.
I wish I was around to purchase the phaser and Star Trek props from back in the day it definitely would made my day.
did you notice upside down screen fittment
according to the instructions, it's right side up.
Very nice. The elevator cage was only waist-high at the doorway.
When I build a BW phaser I never use pure white. I don't believe the original were either. If you look at certain screen caps it looks more like a light stone gray or primer gray. White would completely blow out under studio lights.
- Great job. - Thx for sharing :) - One of "my favorite" shows ;) :D
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Nice! Really like this. Did you use glitter nail polish for the spacesuit?
No. It's a coat of bright silver + a 2nd coat of Tamiya clear green paint
Never would have thought of this. Great idea.
Like most sci-fi side arms it's a Plasma Blaster. I would like one. 179
Hi. Thanks for the comment. OK - these are still available on eBay. Cheap resin versions go for $29 to $37. The good stuff from Museum Replicas is priced at $289 & $385. Pick your poison...
@@scifi_dragon yes, right after I did go to eBay and saw it, thanks.
Thats awesome man💯 Id like to know what settling Kirk used on that Klingon on the Genesis Planet 😆☠️☠️
This is a lot of work to make some model’s of Ufo”s!Nice model work,here!We used to have those plastic crafts in a store over on Hickman Road in Des Moines,Iowa.It was in a really old store 🏬 front that must’ve been there during the 1950”s,I guess?
Hi. Thanks for the comment. This kit's been around for a very long time. As far as I know, it was repackaged and re-released two or three times. It's a nice simple kit with lots of detail inside (which I left out to make room for the lighting circuits). Actually, this wasn't as much work as you might think - it just took a little time for research and planning. The assembly didn't take any longer than building the kit with the original interior details.
cool
Thanks.
I remember watching this series when it was first broadcast. Loved the Invader spacecraft. Very nicely modeled scene. 👍🏻😎