TOS Diorama

[Gojirob]

Note to Mods : I posted two pics today in GTVM, and I intend to post three here. If they exceed any existing limits, let me know, and I apologize in advance.

A while back, when my store was selling the Dawson's Creek soundtrack, the promo was inside a TV-looking box, which I grabbed. At first, the figures were all from the Playmates TOS set, as is the Bridge background. As Hallmark has released their TOS characters, I have slowly but surely replaced them, with hopefully Scotty, Sulu and Chekov to follow someday. Its far from a true TV-view, but I like it so far. Sulu and Chekov are standing behind the Mego Bridge console, modded a bit.

 

[Squiggy]

Ya need to switch Checkov and Sulu's positions. Otherwise, great job.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Also, if you changed the name on the TV set to an RCA, that'd be a cool throwback to the 60s and how Trek was advertised as being in "living color" and the reason to buy RCA color sets.

 

[doctorwho 03]

Aside from the fact Uhura is not at the same scale as the others, this is actually pretty good.
It's a shame you had to wreck the McCoy ornament to make it fit in with the scene, however.

 

[Gojirob]

I was disappointed in her scale as well. My guess is, it had been a while since the last TOSer Hallmark was made, and someone didn't check. Uhura gets dissed all over the place. I mean, when the Barbie set was made, no African-American version?

As to McCoy, it was a needed sacrifice. I'd feel differently if they all came with transporter trappings. That would be one hell of a diorama, and yes, I know about the PM ones.

Here's hoping Hallmark do Chekov and Sulu at the Helm together.

 

[Griffworks]

Very creative! :thumbsup:

 

[Gojirob]

Thank You all. Besides being a fan, I feel a kinship with the show, since it was 9/8/66, and I'm 8/15/66. I can't say I was among the very 1st set of fans, but I prolly was among the first set of syndie-bred fans, and re-creating the look of the show on an old-school TV is kind of a labor of love.

I haven't done as many ST customs as I'd like. Before Hallmark and Furuta brought out their TNG-Alt. Future AGT E-D, I customed one from two Galoob E-D's. That one I sent to my fanzine/fic editor in Georgia.

I write for his series which features Chekov as the Captain of the E-B, with Saavik as XO and Kirk's nephew Peter as Chief Science. Maybe I'll mod some PM figures for a senior crew shot, one of these days. I did do a model of a space monster that an AU TOS crew faces down, a variant of Toho's King Ghidorah.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Though not as cool looking as Gojirob's, here's something I did one night during a bout with insomnia.

The bridge section is from an old AMT model...I took pieces from two models to build a bridge with all of the stations/etc., so I had leftover parts. I put it on our table at cons and stuff, just to watch the reactions from people.

See what happens when you can't sleep?

 

[Gojirob]

Q : What are the rules concerning posting non-ST customs?

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Dayton Ward said:
Though not as cool looking as Gojirob's, here's something I did one night during a bout with insomnia.

The bridge section is from an old AMT model...I took pieces from two models to build a bridge with all of the stations/etc., so I had leftover parts. I put it on our table at cons and stuff, just to watch the reactions from people.

See what happens when you can't sleep?

That's so cool!

 

[Gojirob]

That is cool. Its funny about those old model kits. The Aurora Polar Lights kits with glow-in-the dark used to frustrate me because you could make all-no-glow, but never all-glow.

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