Where No Man Has Gone Before...

[Punkrabbitt]

Thank you, shep. The good news is that I was able to figure that out (BTW this sentence sounds really sarcastic, but isn't meant to be; I has the dumb tonight.) The bad news, of course, is that I already have substantial fleets of 3 different factions in 1/4000 now. I think when I told the printers "no scaling" their machine automatically widened the page to fit and proportionally scaled the height.

Meanwhile, I have finished a couple of Stargazers, a couple of Federation freighters, a couple of newly designd Kemet Barges for me wife, and a Mystery Pirate battle group. Pictures tomorrow.

[shep]

Yeah, it's always fun when the so called service people at a print shop just don't listen to what their customers tell them. I had that problem, too, with a copy shop I used to go for printing things way back in the 90's. At that time it was more about making copies of RPG books from friends, saving paper and copies by putting 2 pages on one sheet. I remember there was this one guy, who knew nothing about the machines they had in the shop and kept telling me that copying 2 pages on 1 is impossible. At that point I went to the public library and read a book about the then usual copy machines. After that, I was able to change the settings to my needs and showed the guy how possible impossible can be...

Nowadays, thank God, the guys at the copy shop around the corner are into gaming themselves and always love when I come around for getting something printed. It's usually somewhat more of a challenge than printing bachelor or master thesises (?) for the students from the technical college across the street. Furthermore, I have a feeling, they keep copies of my stuff for themselves...

[Punkrabbitt]

Just a few little side projects I have been working on...


First up, I took cariboucowboy's Greys from his December 2015 Forum Hoard entry and made them proper Starfleet officers:




And then Lt. T'lota, captain of the U.S.S. Maeve (a Miranda-class cruiser,) my second Star Trek Online character/ship combo:

[shep]

Wow, the Greys are great, but not in the way you might think now... You just gave me the idea to create "perfect" Binaries from TNG. They just need huge white eyes and a slightly blueish cuacasian skin and a small cyberinterface on the side of the head. Garbed in black and everything's binary...

However, yours ARE great. The lady in black, is that an overly beautiful Reman posing as Vulcan... ;P

[Punkrabbitt]

Nov 26, 2016 4:46:37 GMT -9 shep said:

Wow, the Greys are great, but not in the way you might think now... You just gave me the idea to create "perfect" Binaries from TNG. They just need huge white eyes and a slightly blueish cuacasian skin and a small cyberinterface on the side of the head. Garbed in black and everything's binary...

However, yours ARE great. The lady in black, is that an overly beautiful Reman posing as Vulcan... ;P

Thank you, shep.

I am a bad Star Trek fan, I am not so familiar with TNG. But I am glad the Greys are stimulating your imagination. That part makes me really happy.

And Lt. T'Lota is full Vulcan. The character creation screen in Star Trek Online gave me the option to give her the same haircut as my Orc in World of Warcraft, and I couldn't resist I am still refitting the USS Majestic kit to be a proper Miranda-class to be the USS Maeve.

[hackbarth]

Nov 22, 2016 1:17:03 GMT -9 Parduz said:

As this thread seems like a "central hub" for Star Trek related stuffs, I think I should put my request here....

...to everyone that designs Ship models, may i ask for:
1) transparent, 300dpi PNGs of all your ships?
2) maybe already resized to a constant, coherent scale?
3) with single-pixel-wide, non-aliased folding lines?
4) without (or with a different colored) "flying support" (the part under the ship body)?

I'd like to build the ships and make a christmas gift for a friend. He's very ... nitpicking about the relative scale (nothing we can do about it, he's brain is just wired that way) so this is why i ask for 2.
About 1), i always use online photoprinting services, 'cause it costs about nothing and give me sturdy, solvent/superglue-resistant, rigid paper to work with. But the most cheap format is the 10x15cm photo, so i need to rearrange and realign all the various part to reduce the number of prints i need.
And 3) is 'cause it is much more easy, when aligning layers of the various minis parts, to just put a line over another instead of evaluatin what part of the antialiased pixels contains the "majority" of the line....
As I could choose to print everything at 50% or 75% of the original size, precision become a factor.
And 4) 'cause i think I'll use transparent plastic from scrapped packaging as "support".
Do you think it is possible?

1) Can do.
2) Maybe, some ships don't have official sizes.
3) Can do for most ships.
4) Already done.

All my ships are a little loose with the scale, but I can manage to arrange them all. But I print them all in 15x10cm photos, is that ok? I can arrange them on a A4 sheet also.

[Punkrabbitt]

OK, so I have managed to get a fair amount of stuff built over the last week for my Star Trek ship skirmishes:

First up, a couple of Constellation-class ships:



Then a few rescaled and retinted Sathrican ships from WWG's "Wormhole" game as generic space pirates:



And if there are space pirates, then there needs to be some plunder as well. Two of hackbarth's Federation freighters have joined the fleet:



hackbarth also created a beautiful little space station. After I built the first one, I had an idea to make the second one really POP:



Finally, I recolored the OneMonk summoning pyramid from Forum Hoard 25 and built it up as a Kemet Tribes Warbarge. Since the tribes are not always friendly with one another, this was a chance to throw some of the occult origins of the Kemet power at my wife in a game somewhere down the road:

[shep]

Having my own projects folder now, I will post everything related to the Star Trek Adventures Living Playtest from Modiphius Entertainment there – maps, minis, photos from the game table, and all…

cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/8080/star-trek-adventures-living-playtest?page=1&scrollTo=79613

[Punkrabbitt]

Some more papercraft Star Trek. I am lazy tonight so just a group shot of the last few days' work. We have a Spacedock, a couple of Felgates, a couple of Vulcan cruisers, three Klingon freighters, two more Oberth-class research ships, three more Pyramid ships, "Spear Of Hatshepsuut" Warbarge, "Eye of Hatshepsuut" Mastaba, and the USS Maeve (a Miranda-class ship.) As always, the Enterprise is there for scale purposes.

[shep]

I know I know this space station from somewhere... If I could just remember...

[Parduz]

Nov 26, 2016 8:22:29 GMT -9 hackbarth said:

Nov 22, 2016 1:17:03 GMT -9 Parduz said:

As this thread seems like a "central hub" for Star Trek related stuffs, I think I should put my request here....

...to everyone that designs Ship models, may i ask for:
1) transparent, 300dpi PNGs of all your ships?
2) maybe already resized to a constant, coherent scale?
3) with single-pixel-wide, non-aliased folding lines?
4) without (or with a different colored) "flying support" (the part under the ship body)?

I'd like to build the ships and make a christmas gift for a friend. He's very ... nitpicking about the relative scale (nothing we can do about it, he's brain is just wired that way) so this is why i ask for 2.
About 1), i always use online photoprinting services, 'cause it costs about nothing and give me sturdy, solvent/superglue-resistant, rigid paper to work with. But the most cheap format is the 10x15cm photo, so i need to rearrange and realign all the various part to reduce the number of prints i need.
And 3) is 'cause it is much more easy, when aligning layers of the various minis parts, to just put a line over another instead of evaluatin what part of the antialiased pixels contains the "majority" of the line....
As I could choose to print everything at 50% or 75% of the original size, precision become a factor.
And 4) 'cause i think I'll use transparent plastic from scrapped packaging as "support".
Do you think it is possible?

1) Can do.
2) Maybe, some ships don't have official sizes.
3) Can do for most ships.
4) Already done.

All my ships are a little loose with the scale, but I can manage to arrange them all. But I print them all in 15x10cm photos, is that ok? I can arrange them on a A4 sheet also.

Whee, I'm late...
Yes, that's ok!
I'd really apreciate it

Thanks!

[Punkrabbitt]

Dec 1, 2016 0:00:19 GMT -9 shep said:

I know I know this space station from somewhere... If I could just remember...

I got it from this guy in Germany...

I did a little shading on it. Now that I have it built, I am going to tinker with the shadows a bit more. It is a really nice piece.

[shep]

Dec 1, 2016 7:38:12 GMT -9 Punkrabbitt said:

I did a little shading on it. Now that I have it built, I am going to tinker with the shadows a bit more. It is a really nice piece.

Yeah, with a really wobbly stand... Anyway, thanks.

[Punkrabbitt]

Dec 1, 2016 8:12:44 GMT -9 shep said:

Yeah, with a really wobbly stand... Anyway, thanks.

I fixed the wobbly stand problem

[shep]

How, if I might ask?

[Punkrabbitt]

Dec 1, 2016 13:55:11 GMT -9 shep said:

How, if I might ask?

Fold it 90 degrees lengthwise, and cut the top edges about 45 degrees down from the mounting slot. It becomes much sturdier. I'll try to take a better pic for you tonight or tomorrow.

[hackbarth]

These pyramids remember me of this papercraft of Port Zelada: forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/104327-Paper-Craft-Sidewinder-de-Papel

[hackbarth]

I played very loose with scale, but if I standardize on shep and okumarts scale of 1/5170 in 300 dpi, I need to run some numbers:

300dpi is 118.11 pixels per cm.

At 1/5170, 1m is 0,01934cm.

At 300dpi this translates to 1m=2.28pixels.

The Constitution class, at 305m, must be 697pixels long.

Is that so?

[Punkrabbitt]

Dec 2, 2016 13:37:31 GMT -9 hackbarth said:

These pyramids remember me of this papercraft of Port Zelada: forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/104327-Paper-Craft-Sidewinder-de-Papel

Thank you!

More random mystery ships are always a good thing. And just when I had run out of things to build! This will be my first kit in California

[shep]

Dec 2, 2016 13:52:02 GMT -9 hackbarth said:

I played very loose with scale, but if I standardize on shep and okumarts scale of 1/5170 in 300 dpi, I need to run some numbers:

300dpi is 118.11 pixels per cm.

At 1/5170, 1m is 0,01934cm.

At 300dpi this translates to 1m=2.28pixels.

The Constitution class, at 305m, must be 697pixels long.

Is that so?

Whooo, pixel counts... I take a much simpler approach: I take a ship's length in meters, divide this number by 51.7, and get the mini's length in cm. That's it.

For example: According to memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Constitution_class, the Constitution class is 289 m long (original configuration). Divided by 51.7, this leads to a mini with a length of 5.59 cm.

The Refit Constitution class (305 m length) would be 5.9 cm long as a mini.

===> Using your pixel measures above, this will lead to a length of 696.849 pixels – 697, if you round up.

[shep]

Since Dropbox decided to cut all my links, I created a post in a new thread with new links to all the Star Trek stuff I made... You can find it here: cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/8350/all-star-trek-minis

[shep]

On with the project of expanding okumarts corridor set for Star Trek adventures set in the TOS-era. I made a neat little turbolift for the important and famous elevator talks between captain and crew or crew and crew.



Testbuild:



I know it's a bit boxy and should be more roundish, but the way I made it, it's fold-flat and offers enough space for several minis. For the convenience of all the non-metrics among you, I set the page up as 300dpi US-Letter.

I also made a shuttlebay with control room, but I found no time for a test build so far…

[oldschooldm]

A slight variation suggestion? Make one side removable (the door side) for photo ops? Make the tabs on that panel friction fit when inserted to the other sides.

Those conversations where always shot at head-height.

[shep]

May 8, 2017 12:31:01 GMT -9 oldschooldm said:

A slight variation suggestion? Make one side removable (the door side) for photo ops? Make the tabs on that panel friction fit when inserted to the other sides.

Those conversations where always shot at head-height.

Err… you mean like this?



I made the door removable, so you can take pictures through the open door. Should work well with smartphones and small-ish cameras, but not so well with larger DSLRs...

[oldschooldm]

That's an even better version of what I was thinking. Post some shots!

[shep]

First, I gonna have to build it.

I'll post some pics along with one of the next rooms: shuttlebay, officer's quarters, bridge, sickbay, transporter room…

I guess, the bridge will be the last to get finished. I plan on including collapsable consoles around the walls, an entry area in front of the turbolift, and (some) removable viewscreens (so you can replace what the crew sees on some of the displays and the main viewscreen, or use the open holes to shoot pics through them).

The officer's quarters is also going to be a bit tricky, as I have to think about the wall seperating the "study" area from the sleeping area, as well as making the interior furnishing extra pieces, or include them into the collapsable build, or both. Access to the bath will only be a picture on one of the walls in the sleeping area, since there is no TOS episode actually showing the attached bathroom (True heroes don't need to use a bathroom, anyway!).

Transporter room and sickbay should be no problem, and the shuttlebay is done (only needs some minor tweaks and cosmetics). When everything is ready and testbuilt, I'll post more…

[domingojs23]

Dear Dave and Friends,

Would you happen to have a new link for the corridor wall / panel models ?

Many thanks !

Gary

[okumarts]

Ok.. I think this works now. www.dropbox.com/s/qecx9phzztpq2a9/wnmhgb%20corridors.zip?dl=0

[domingojs23]

Wow ! Many thanks Dave for the link to the corridors ! :-)

[okumarts]

I forgeot to add this.