Physical Model Help Needed

[Potemkin_Prod]

I'm looking for a model of a Russian rocket, perhaps a Vostok, that can be used on the set of our ready room for Project: Potemkin.

If anyone's already built one that they're willing to part with, and would like to see it enshrined in a fan film, please contact me at your earliest convenience.

Thanks!

 

[JTK1]

Try these guys here:
http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/viewforum.php?f=6
They may help you out

 

[Captain Robert April]

You might try a paper model. Cheap and if made well, should look pretty nifty on camera.

 

[BolianAuthor]

^ That's an excellent idea... I was actually considering doing that with a model of the Gemini capsule, because a lot of those old Revell plastic NASA kits are VERY expensive now.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Or at least look at some model rocket tubes & nose cones for a starting point.

 

[BolianAuthor]

BTW, would anyone here know where I can download a good-quality card model of the TOS shuttlecraft?

 

[The Axeman]

Not going the CGI route for a reason? I know physical models can be better looking if done correctly, but that sort of trick photography is not easy.

 

[BolianAuthor]

^

Axeman, if I understand correctly, I think the OP means that he wants to use a model as a set piece, like Picard's Stargazer model, that would be seen somewhere in the Ready Room. I don't think he's gonna use this as a shooting miniature.

That being said, then aye, for a background set piece/prop, a well-built paper model would look just as good on the screen as a plastic model, and likely nobody'd be tellin' the difference, because of how background objects are oft a bit out of focus a bit, and look small on the screen.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Yeah, if those tabletop models in various ready rooms were built with more detail, we'd have a better idea of what they were supposed to be.

Though I think they are plastic kitbashes, maybe a closer camera shot would have helped.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

( Stupid double post )

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

I found a cool paper Vostok model, but unfortunately the link to the original source is broken with a Swedish/Norwegian explanation that didn't translate well.

I've found an Apollo/Soyuz Revell kit I'm bidding on, but doubt I can get into a bidding war for it.

And yes, it's going to be on Captain Grigory's shelf, much as the Stargazer was, along with some other unique mementos. A digital model would be out of the question.

 

[caisson2delta]

Have you tried any of the online hobby stores? I seem to remember a kit of the Vostok some time back and think it was through Squadron.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

I've tried Googling Vostok model. I keep finding very beautiful (and tres cher) Vostok models that actually fly. I searched for Soyuz and found some very beautiful (and tres cher) wooden models built on demand. Fortunately, I appear to be on the track of the Apollo/Soyuz thing, and I've got my fingers crossed.

Did anyone have a good link for one of the paper models?

 

[Captain Robert April]

Try this:


Science Fiction Free Paper Models

 

[judge alba]

For a tos shuttle try this link, not built it so not sure what it’s like
http://www.phoxim.de/joerg_stammen_galileoII/joerg_stammen_galileoII.html

not sure if this one will help . but about three quarters of the way down this page I found a soyuz model that might be ok. theres a few more on here that might be what you want built the larger Apollo capsule a few years back and it was pretty easy not sure about the smaller ones and how easy they are to build


http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_foreign.html

 

[MANT!]

Real Russian and European card models at the following..
http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_foreign.html

Includes Vostok,Buran, and the LEK lunar lander

Whups...saw I was beaten to the punch..please disregard..

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Try this:


Science Fiction Free Paper Models

No luck there, but plenty of cool paper models, to be sure.

not sure if this one will help . but about three quarters of the way down this page I found a soyuz model that might be ok. theres a few more on here that might be what you want built the larger Apollo capsule a few years back and it was pretty easy not sure about the smaller ones and how easy they are to build
http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_foreign.html

That's perfect! Thanks! If I don't get the Apollo-Soyuz revell kit, then at least I can get a paper model.

Whups...saw I was beaten to the punch..please disregard..

I appreciate the pointer anyway! Thanks!

 

[BolianAuthor]

That's a good shuttle model... downloaded! The other site with the Buran and Energia is cool, too.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I just saw a video on YouTube, where a guy was doing a build from the AMT/ERTL TOS Enterprise that comes in the tin box. His tin box model came with a poster of the box art... mine did not. WTF? LOL... now I feel jipped. I also noticed that the plastic his model was molded in was an off-white, and mine is like a blue color. Man... I didn't know a poster was supposed to come with the tin box version, and now I never got the poster...