My 1/1 J Long Communicator and Hand Phaser builds.

[Chris PikE]

I recently acquired this set and had a blast constructing them! They are not for the faint of heart...Cutting, shaping, soldiering ETC is required throughout!
The communicator is based on the "GAMMA" prop seen in the original series. Most famously in the Making Of Star Trek Book.
It is Non working...which is fine by me.

The Hand Phaser features a raising site and extending emitter that lights when the thumb wheel is rotated.
Again, I didn't want idealized props but went for a weathered and used looking effect.

 

[Redfern]

Now you just need the tricorder and the type 2 pistol mount to round out the "exploration set"!

 

[Chris PikE]

 

[GNDN18]

Now you just need the tricorder and the type 2 pistol mount to round out the "exploration set"!

With the utility belt sporting the show-title buckle.

Just like they wore on the show.

 

[blssdwlf]

With the utility belt sporting the show-title buckle.

Just like they wore on the show.

Is that from a toy?

 

[GNDN18]

Is that from a toy?

Yes. My irony runs away with me sometimes. Even at the age of 6, I was irritated that the Remco exploration kit/utility belt had STAR TREK emblazoned on the belt buckle. The verisimilitude of being on the landing party on planet Backyard IV took a big hit.

 

[Redfern]

Is that from a toy?

@GNDN18 already answered, but here's a link to a few photos of the product in question.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-star-trek-utility-belt-remco-1802094118

Similarly, Remco released a Batman utility belt with the word "Batman" in raised relief on the buckle rather than the bat symbol.

 

[publiusr]

The verisimilitude of being on the landing party on planet Backyard IV took a big hit.

I always hated that.

One day, I woke up to hear my parents fussing. An appliance had failed…which meant I’d get the box of course.

It was then that I invented the laptop.

I used scissors to cut rectangular areas to either side of a flap fold (I was a smart little imbecile) and on the inner non-glossy section gridded off buttons (A, B, C…no idea of QWERTY) and dried out a marker making a screen. No scanner like a tricorder, but could communicate with the ship.

I told my friends that it probably would not be too many years before we really had something like that with electronics getting smaller post Apollo.

Now, even if I could afford a real laptop?

I don’t want it.

My library desktop once a week. A work phone? Good enough.

My cardboard laptop had the best operating system: imagination.

 

[Redfern]

Oh, I forgot that the phaser also had the title "Star Trek" embossed upon the casing, more annoying than the buckle. That's why my buddy Kyle and I preferred the AMT brand plastic assembly kit "Exploration Set". While awkwardly proportioned (particularly the phaser) and "kid sized", at least they didn't have bold letters molded into the plastic, and chrome plated to boot!

I believe the Remco items came out about a year after the AMT kit and by that time, Kyle and I had moved to opposite end of Birmingham, so I had nobody with which to roleplay.