Star Trek 55

[BorgMan]

Sounds cool. Have you posted any images here in the forum or DA? I'd like to check 'em out..

Sure thing! Not a lot of Trek though. I'm still pondering how to make smooth connections. Might need custom bricks for that, but making those has proven to be quite easy once you get the dimensions right. You can find 'm here:

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/public_gallery.page?idUser=1860366

My Thunderbirds models are in my Alcove thread :-)

 

[The Lensman]

Fired up my old Dell which I haven't used in a couple of years to see how or if it still worked. Then loaded up the 3d program and I guess I was working on Trek '55 stuff last as that was the main thing in my project folder. Decided to cobble together the transporter room I've been thinking of for a long while now. It still needs a few more things to liven the room up some, so think of this as that early version that appeared in a couple of episode.


Concieving the transporter as a quick way to get people where they needed to be, and because they could not afford any fancy effects at this point, the production crew enclosed the materialization chamber behind walls and slapped a door with a window on it. While the chamber had lights in it, the chamber was typicaly black as pitch, a mysterious dark space that the cast members would simply enter into (or exit out of) before "beaming", usually in batches of three. We never saw the interior of the chamber except when the "beaming" process was in play. To give the audience some kind of visual, one of the three would be in direct line with the window, the beaming effect was a stage hand turning the lights off and on really fast. At some point the cast would step out and the stagehand would repeat the process for about thirty seconds. This then would be spliced together with the footage with the crew and it would create the illusion of them being there one seoncd and gone with the next strobe. They would simply do the reverse when the crew beamed up. The door to the chamber, being relatively flimsy, was prone to damage and was in almost constant need of repair.

Edit: just saw this thread has been inactive for four years. Michael, if you want me to create a new thread, please let me know.