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Space...


The final frontier


These are the voyages


Of the starship


Enterprise


Its five year mission


To seek out new life


New civilizations


To boldly go


Where no man has gone before


The whole build process for this one was a lot of fun and thanks again to everyone that stopped by to offer help, advice, encouragement and general goofing around. The build thread is here if you'd like to take a look at how this came together.

I learned a lot about how to light stuff up without over thinking it or making it expensive, and also learned some more about how to use photoshop as you can see from the last couple of images above If I get chance I may go back and see if I can figure out how to edit out the remnants of the base supports where they encroach on the bottom of the secondary hull. Edit - I've tidied up both photo-shopped images by masking out the display stand and realigning the animated gif to reduce the jogging.

And I also learned about how not to handle decals!

Just one more photo of the whole thing including the base


Thanks for looking - Live Long and Prosper!


Cheers
Neil

Fantastic job!!!

I'm a Next Generation fan, myself.

All these shots are great, The GIF with the capture of the leds flickering is amazing!

I am a TOS fan... hook line and sinker, but this revel is just.........



HEHE, no fantastic!

Wow Neil, this model came out so well, man I love it dude!

Excellent build.

Guilty on the general goofing around

Absolutely sweet job, she is astounding
Standing ovation

Beauty! Still my favorite ship ever!

Bravo Sir, I say again, Bravo!

xSCAR45 wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2017 5:45 pm Fantastic job!!!

I'm a Next Generation fan, myself.

Thanks mate! I enjoy the original series, Next Generation & Enterprise all pretty much equally - my homage to Next Generation is that the backdrop for the animated image is a still from the TNG title sequence

DrSprue wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2017 6:29 pm All these shots are great, The GIF with the capture of the leds flickering is amazing!

I am a TOS fan... hook line and sinker, but this revel is just.........



HEHE, no fantastic!

Wow Neil, this model came out so well, man I love it dude!

Thanks Tony - as well as learning about basic lighting I've also expanded my photoshop repertoire! The flickering LEDs was a challenge to capture but as with everything it's a lot easier when you know how!

bfrd wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2017 6:33 pm Excellent build.

Thanks mate!

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:32 pm Guilty on the general goofing around

Absolutely sweet job, she is astounding
Standing ovation

I wouldn't have the goofing any other way! Thanks mate - couldn't have done it without you!

DBMiller wrote: Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:47 am Beauty! Still my favorite ship ever!

Many thanks - yep there's not many out there that challenge her design.

Stokesy44 wrote: Mon Oct 02, 2017 1:28 pm Bravo Sir, I say again, Bravo!

Thanks admiral! Appreciate your support through the build as always.

Very nice indeed.. Great job well executed..

I gotta try this lighting malarky at some point..

And I'm a fan off all the trek series.. Even liking the New one

Wow, that turned out really well!

MakingModels wrote: Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:22 pm Very nice indeed.. Great job well executed..

I gotta try this lighting malarky at some point..

And I'm a fan off all the trek series.. Even liking the New one

Thanks Karl - I've not seen the new Trek yet since it's out on Netflix - how's it looking?

As for the lighting it wasn't as scary as I first thought but it did make things fiddly from time to time!

aur0ra145 wrote: Mon Oct 02, 2017 8:41 pm Wow, that turned out really well!

Thanks mate

Tomcat64 wrote: Wed Oct 04, 2017 11:15 am Thanks Karl - I've not seen the new Trek yet since it's out on Netflix - how's it looking?

I know a bunch of people that are not liking the way they are dealing with the time-line in the new movies. I for (at least) one love what they did. It is going to let the new series of movies pretty much do whatever they want without conflicting with the previous movies. I really like the character choices. Simon Pegg makes and awesome Scotty and Karl Urban plays a great Bones. I would check them out. Just make sure you watch them in order.

Nice job fella looks awesome

bfrd wrote: Wed Oct 04, 2017 11:43 am

Tomcat64 wrote: Wed Oct 04, 2017 11:15 am Thanks Karl - I've not seen the new Trek yet since it's out on Netflix - how's it looking?

I know a bunch of people that are not liking the way they are dealing with the time-line in the new movies. I for (at least) one love what they did. It is going to let the new series of movies pretty much do whatever they want without conflicting with the previous movies. I really like the character choices. Simon Pegg makes and awesome Scotty and Karl Urban plays a great Bones. I would check them out. Just make sure you watch them in order.

Ah my mistake I thought Karl was referring to the new TV series (Discovery?).

I've really enjoyed the new set of movies. Oddly enough Pegg as Scotty is the one that doesn't work so much for me but I think the others are fine and completely agree with you about Urban as Bones - he's got that spot on

Nev wrote: Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:05 pm Nice job fella looks awesome

Cheers Nev - thanks for dropping in

Yeah I was referring to the new series.. Discovery

Its one of those ones you need to watch and make your own mind up..

Look at it as though its something new.. Don't try and compare it to all the other series as it, in places, is hugely different..

3 Episode's in and I am enjoying it

I refuse to pay CBS to watch a tv show they won't air on normal tv. The only way you can watch it in the states is to subscribe to their online streaming service.

Wow thats crisp mate well done

kiwigav wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2017 10:26 pm Wow thats crisp mate well done

Thanks Gav - really appreciate it

wow cracking looking kit and you need to show me how to do the animated gif thingies, as a side note is this the one with raised or recessed panel lines?

TheSmoo wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:37 am wow cracking looking kit and you need to show me how to do the animated gif thingies, as a side note is this the one with raised or recessed panel lines?

Thanks mate - this is the one with recessed panel lines. There's loads of room inside and I'm sure with your electronic skills you could probably wire up the nacelles with proper rotating strobe effects

Regarding the animated gif here's a quick summary I put together for Dan's weekly thread a little while back - let me know if you need any more detail on any of this.

I positioned the model in front of the TV with an appropriate background image. Set the camera up on a tripod and locked off the zoom & focus once I'd framed the model how I wanted it. Took ten shots of the kit with the internal lighting on, and one background shot without the model in it. The eleven shots were loaded into Photoshop, stacked and aligned and then using a sample of the background image I masked out the display stand on each shot. Finally each shot was setup as an animation frame on a continuous loop with a 0.1 second delay between each frame then saved as a GIF.

You can do the same thing with a video clip but that generates a really high number of frames (layers) which is what I did the first time around and it took forever to create the composite.

It's beautiful, bud.



You've got to be just over the moon with how well it turned out.

Lysus wrote: Wed Nov 01, 2017 5:50 pm It's beautiful, bud.

You've got to be just over the moon with how well it turned out.

Thanks mate - yep happy with this one for sure

Congratulations on finishing!



Sorry I'm way late on this, but we're done! Yay!

I'll be contacting the judges shortly and let them get to work on all the very fine submissions this year. I hope you enjoyed yourself and look forward to seeing you again next summer!

Again, I'm sorry for the delay and if you need some explanation, you can find it here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23701