This is my first completely scratch built "model." I carved it from extruded foam and painted it to look like rock with Vallejo acrylic paints. I plan to also build a partial environment around it and do a miniature VFX shot with it. Always wanted to do a miniature shot, but haven't had the chance. Should be fun.
Wow! That looks really well done. It has me wondering whether the Guardian ever looked new, or if it always had a battered and worn exterior?
I have this idea that it was once perfectly round--made by the same folks who had the Doomsday machine maybe? Speaking of a Doomsday Machine--how about that next?
I puzzled over Norman Spinrad's description of the filming miniature for a long time, thinking such a construction technique would make it absurdly heavy. But what Spinard said was, "...dipped in cement..." The word in this case is probably not the synonym for concrete but rather something akin to "rubber cement", an adhesive. Personally, I still suspect the filming model was actually chicken wire covered in cooking foil and possibly an outer layer of lighting gels (thin sheets of colored translucent plastic). The color balance of the footage was adjusted, supersaturated, to give it that strangely alien hue.
Huh, I hadn't thought about that but, yes, you're quite right - in the modeling world cement can mean a number of different things.
Like this maybe? Beautiful work on the models. It takes a ton of talent to do something like that from scratch.
For some reason I keeping thing of Stonehenge from This Is Spinal Tap. Fantastic work. You are one hell of a talent.
It's about 1/15th scale. I'm not sure if it could pair with any Trek figures. I actually don't plan on keeping any of these pieces after filming.
I finished the "hero" elements of the Guardian of Forever. The gate itself, the bricks, and also the column next to it. Now I just have to make lots of rocks and ground cover. z
Some would say this is good, some would say this is bad, but in my opinion, this is GREAT! Yours look BETTER than the subjects they were modeled after!