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Recreational Forums => Trek Discussion => Films & Shows => Topic started by: flarespire on August 05, 2011, 07:00:27 PM
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Ok so i ordered a Voyager Tricorder kit from Frontier Models (here: http://www.frontiermodels.co.uk/Star-Trek-Voyager-TRICORDER-p-20086.html ) an it says on the page "It includes two solid resin pieces, clear resin sensor pieces, hinges, hardware, and laser graphics for tricorder pad" but does anyone have any idea what they mean by "hardware"? is it the electronics inside, or something else?
anyways this is a good kit, cant wait for it to get here, luckily a live in the UK and thats where the company is based so i have to wait around 5 working days and if interested i will post pics of how the progress goes :D
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usually "hardware" means tools, screws, hinges, things of that sort
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still you can never be sure when they use a vague word like hardware, anyways ill post pics once if got it.
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Ahhhh....the Mark X Tricorder...I'm in the process of scratchbuilding it :D
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Good luck with that, i really cant wait to get mine, ive always wanted one. :D
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Good luck with that, i really cant wait to get mine, ive always wanted one. :D
Oh it's a breeze, I have a manual that shows me how to do it LOL :D I'm even thinking about casting it in clear resin (it'll be hollow) to allow Electronics!
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Yeah, I'd buy one of those. Well done. :thumbsup:
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Yeah, I'd buy one of those. Well done. :thumbsup:
Hehe, I actually wouldn't...but mainly because I know where I can get an actual vacu-formed kit like the used on the originals!!!
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stupid things been delayed in customs because a new kit had to be sent here from th US, to the company which sells em, and then to me....getting frustrated now :banghead:
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well its finally out of customs...now another month+ wait for it to get here, stupid postal service being disorganised in my hometown. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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well its finally out of customs...now another month+ wait for it to get here, stupid postal service being disorganised in my hometown. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Ok, when you get it I just want to let you know it's not in the slightest silver....it's a medium metallic grey. The originals were painted using a GM Auto touchup paint Plastikote 7173 to be exact.
You'd have to either find it, or have someone mix it for you (An Auto Paint store)...which will be expensive as hell. The code that the Auto paint was for was a GM 15 (there was something else on there I can't remember though). YOu're best bet would be to find Medium Marblehead Metallic and use that!
(thought I'd let you know I didn't know whether you knew that or not)
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i was just gonna by some paint for the warhammer40k models for this, boltgun metal seems to look right on it. And it still hasnt arrived, it was supposed to be here this week.
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Show us pics whenever you do get it and finish it :)
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ill be sure too, ill post a pic of the unmade product and then pics of it finished. hows that sound?
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ill be sure too, ill post a pic of the unmade product and then pics of it finished. hows that sound?
spiffy :dance
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Hey flaire, some of my prop buddies have warned me about Frontier Models....they're generally recasts...And the shipping generally is rediculous...I really hope you get/got yours.
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yeah the shipping is ridiculous, i live around 3 hours away and its 5 week late!
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You should post a thread in the art forum chronicling your build up when it finally arrives.
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i might, bren, but it IS to get to that "F***ING HELL HURRY UP AND GET HERE!" phase.
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i might, bren, but it IS to get to that "F***ING HELL HURRY UP AND GET HERE!" phase.
Has it been 45 days yet??? I'd file a complaint with Paypal (or your credit card company) ASAP...
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its been around 5 weeks
and they stopped answering the phone to us....
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Then file a complaint with whatever payment method you used. That might get their attention! I'm going to ask around on the prop board that I frequent and see if anyone has anything, I'll pm you with details! :)
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Perhaps if you have time go and pay them a visit.
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well since i do live close i have suggested it to my dad, ut, well he thinks otherwise and ALWAYS, undermines me....though i am gonna get himto file a complaint with who we used to pay them.
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given em a week to reply to an email about the status of our order or were canceling it.
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Well.. Frontier models has severley ****ed up, luckily they havent taken the money from the order so i may just cancel it and get something from http://www.roddenberry.com instead, at least this site is official and i know ill actually get my order, good thing christmas is coming up cuz now im thinking about getting this instead...http://www.roddenberry.com/star-trek-vii-first-contact-phaser-rifle-prop-kit.html (http://www.roddenberry.com/star-trek-vii-first-contact-phaser-rifle-prop-kit.html)
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its always bugged me. in the early VOY episodes, they used old clunky TNG style tricorders, but then they switched to the later ones without saying a word
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its always bugged me. in the early VOY episodes, they used old clunky TNG style tricorders, but then they switched to the later ones without saying a word
dont you mean the rifles? they never used the TNG tricorders in VOY, though you could be thinking of DS9 seeing as its in the first episode, but you still may be right about it, i never really noticed it myself.
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dont you mean the rifles? they never used the TNG tricorders in VOY, though you could be thinking of DS9 seeing as its in the first episode, but you still may be right about it, i never really noticed it myself.
I definately mean the tricorders. The tricorders VOY uses in Caretaker are in the first attachment. The later ones are in the second. How did Voyager get brand new tricorders 70,000 lightyears from the nearest supply depot?
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how do you know that they didn't just have multiple ones on board?
say they had like few older style and many newer ones...
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how do you know that they didn't just have multiple ones on board?
say they had like few older style and many newer ones...
It's the same thing with the Phasers Neb. They had the old TNG "Cobra head" Style Phasers then switched to the "Boomerang" style phaser.
By the way, second season used both Mark VII (TNG) Tricorders and Mark X (new style) Tricorders...
And flaire...I can get props CHEAPER than that...Rodd.com overcharges for their props. (150 for a Mark X when I can buy it for half that is rediculous)
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Eh ive got money to burn, or i will do after christmas, and at least i know ill get it from Rodd.com that that stupid other site, any on the subject of those new tricorders and phasers, they probably had a coupld of storage containers full of em and updated replicator patterns, and used those new ones after the old ones broke.