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by cpltony16
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:38 pm
Forum: Other Creative Work
Topic: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA
Replies: 9
Views: 1761

Re: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA

With the help of fans and their work that's been posted here...oh yeah we're coming up with all sorts. I've an old JVC camcorder that's no longer working. I'm going to cannibalize the thing and use what I can from the mechanism to build this backdrop out. I think we can all agree that accuracy at th...
by cpltony16
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Forum Downtime
Replies: 28
Views: 60369

Re: Forum Downtime

Glad they allowed for legacy pricing and functionality to remain (from the sounds of it). Have you thought are about archiving content to somewhere like Google Drive (15GB free) for anything older than x years on the forums? Not sure of the infrastructure and if off-loading larger files there and ex...
by cpltony16
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:22 pm
Forum: Other Creative Work
Topic: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA
Replies: 9
Views: 1761

Re: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA

Next hurdle I'm going to have to figure out is the eye piece. Thanks (once again) to the HD upscale, we can see this is clearly something with a lot of depth and detail. PPA Eye Piece.png I can only assume this is a kit bash (parts of different model kits they'd aready used, thrown together to build...
by cpltony16
Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:54 pm
Forum: Other Creative Work
Topic: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA
Replies: 9
Views: 1761

Re: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA

So some genius on here decided to waste their time upscaling the show to 720P *GULP* So after battling MEGA.NZ to get the entire 13+GB zip file....here we go!! Holw cow, this is amazing work!! Taking a lot of the guess work out of what we've got going on. vlcsnap-2024-03-09-17h47m33s009.png vlcsnap-...
by cpltony16
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:17 am
Forum: Other Creative Work
Topic: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA
Replies: 9
Views: 1761

Re: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA

I typed out this whole thing about the antenna maybe being one single piece of wire painted two colors, but the more I look the more you can see it's separate pieces. The black sleeve with the yellow wire being bent into a ring and fed back into the sleeve. I guess on the repro it just looks sloppy ...
by cpltony16
Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:05 pm
Forum: Other Creative Work
Topic: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA
Replies: 9
Views: 1761

Re: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA

Hey Crash, I did wonder how intertwined the SF groups were online so glad Dan shared them. I hope your health improves (work also) ;) Thank you for the kind words. I'm no expert at prop making, but I've done enough to know this is what I wanted to attempt. ...and this one being about 6-7 inches in d...
by cpltony16
Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:24 am
Forum: The Show
Topic: RIP Al Matthews
Replies: 3
Views: 8958

Re: RIP Al Matthews

Resurrecting an old thread, but having met Al Matthews due to his role in Aliens, I only learned he voiced Star Fleet a few months ago. When I met him in London back in 2007 I was on a mission to confirm for my friend that he was uncredited in Spies Like Us. He indeed was. But to know he was uncredi...
by cpltony16
Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:17 am
Forum: Other Creative Work
Topic: Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA
Replies: 9
Views: 1761

Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA

Given that my father taped Star Fleet off the TV back in 82, I was able to enjoy the show over and over growing up. Fast forward 40 years and my love of props has led me back down the path of Star Fleet once more. I never thought I'd have the source material to be able to do a decent job. But given ...