Back when TNG was still on the air, though heading out, I experimented heavily in making my own ships. Cardboard, hollow battery casings, lots of tape and glue. I amde probably two dozen Federation ships, some of really unique design, and about ten alien vessels.
For a breif period I experimented with flat and simple alien craft, attack vessels. Designed to be small and in real life only a story tall. Kind of like the fighter planes of space.
This one is a little over three and-a-half inches wide; the back green thing is the mini warp engine. The things shaped like a three-pronged dildo is the bridge.
The colors on this one used to be well-defined and striking, but they've faded badly and pieces have fallen off. The backside is where you see three parts glued; they were nothing but shiny silver things that when reflected in light turned rainbow colors -- they wre warp engines.
As you can see, this one is not entirely falt and is humped in the middle, raising the bridge up like a hill. The small end is the tail. The yellow parts (which have turned sort of orange under parts that are taped) are warp engines. The bottom was never done, so there is nothing to show there. It's about six inches wide. This was an experiment in one than one deck, with at least three; the bottom woudl have been a hollowed out AA or AAA battery casing and made to look all cool (as later Federation ships will show).
They look pretty damn good for fifteen or so years old. Mind you, I wasn't exactly swimming in money and at the time I wasn't even on the internet and only know of a website that would build plastic models of things you rederned (like in Autocad) for you, at a costly price. Cardboard was cheaper.
For a breif period I experimented with flat and simple alien craft, attack vessels. Designed to be small and in real life only a story tall. Kind of like the fighter planes of space.
This one is a little over three and-a-half inches wide; the back green thing is the mini warp engine. The things shaped like a three-pronged dildo is the bridge.
The colors on this one used to be well-defined and striking, but they've faded badly and pieces have fallen off. The backside is where you see three parts glued; they were nothing but shiny silver things that when reflected in light turned rainbow colors -- they wre warp engines.
As you can see, this one is not entirely falt and is humped in the middle, raising the bridge up like a hill. The small end is the tail. The yellow parts (which have turned sort of orange under parts that are taped) are warp engines. The bottom was never done, so there is nothing to show there. It's about six inches wide. This was an experiment in one than one deck, with at least three; the bottom woudl have been a hollowed out AA or AAA battery casing and made to look all cool (as later Federation ships will show).
They look pretty damn good for fifteen or so years old. Mind you, I wasn't exactly swimming in money and at the time I wasn't even on the internet and only know of a website that would build plastic models of things you rederned (like in Autocad) for you, at a costly price. Cardboard was cheaper.
