Screen Accurate Large Scale PPA
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:17 am
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 we now have the DVD release, the 2022 exhibit catalog, and the technology to create and print in 3D....what's stopping us???
One thing I've found in my recent research trying to build a screen accurate PPA is that they had more than one model on set.
The 2022 exhibit PPA is actually a small recreation (the art director took the original home, was it ever located?) and not as accurate as i'd have liked.
So using existing prints as a base, an ENORMOUS amount of screen captures, and a little artistic license matching both on-screen models into one...here is my work in progress. Plenty more still to do. Including weathering, additional pieces and of course electronics.
Some of the HD captures are really helping with the eye piece as that's got some depth to it, as do the under-ear pieces.
I'm penciling in where he needs to be beat up and his seams 'enhanced' right now. Given the lighting and the standard definition of the show, it's tough to see how the paintwork is around his arms at times.
But thankfully the remastered pilot shows PP-'Adamski' without his arms and a clear representation of what we've got to work with. When I say they had more than one model on screen, I found this switch in one scene that was quite noticeable when specifically looking for PPA material. The yellow pieces at the base of the top dome (his 'cheeks' I'd say) usually give it away (the 2022 exhibit PPA showed this also as the dome is too high).
But it is interesting to see the damage PPA has as the series continues. The score across one of his 'ears' and what appear to be 'bags under his eyes' in the form of metal stains around his eye piece.
Not many know the show and can appreciate this, so wanted to share it with those who hopefully would.
Any and all ideas are welcome to get this big guy to screen accuracy.
I've got some circuitry for a voice box and have pulled about 78 individual clips from the show onto it.
Overkill, but better too much than not enough.
Would love to know some of your favorite PPA lines so I can make sure I don't forget them.
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 we now have the DVD release, the 2022 exhibit catalog, and the technology to create and print in 3D....what's stopping us???
One thing I've found in my recent research trying to build a screen accurate PPA is that they had more than one model on set.
The 2022 exhibit PPA is actually a small recreation (the art director took the original home, was it ever located?) and not as accurate as i'd have liked.
So using existing prints as a base, an ENORMOUS amount of screen captures, and a little artistic license matching both on-screen models into one...here is my work in progress. Plenty more still to do. Including weathering, additional pieces and of course electronics.
Some of the HD captures are really helping with the eye piece as that's got some depth to it, as do the under-ear pieces.
I'm penciling in where he needs to be beat up and his seams 'enhanced' right now. Given the lighting and the standard definition of the show, it's tough to see how the paintwork is around his arms at times.
But thankfully the remastered pilot shows PP-'Adamski' without his arms and a clear representation of what we've got to work with. When I say they had more than one model on screen, I found this switch in one scene that was quite noticeable when specifically looking for PPA material. The yellow pieces at the base of the top dome (his 'cheeks' I'd say) usually give it away (the 2022 exhibit PPA showed this also as the dome is too high).
But it is interesting to see the damage PPA has as the series continues. The score across one of his 'ears' and what appear to be 'bags under his eyes' in the form of metal stains around his eye piece.
Not many know the show and can appreciate this, so wanted to share it with those who hopefully would.
Any and all ideas are welcome to get this big guy to screen accuracy.
I've got some circuitry for a voice box and have pulled about 78 individual clips from the show onto it.
Overkill, but better too much than not enough.
Would love to know some of your favorite PPA lines so I can make sure I don't forget them.