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hemble

Member since
January 2005
From: Queensland/Australia

Star Trek - Death of a Red Shirt 1/72

Posted by hemble on Friday, October 6, 2006 12:29 AM

Hi All

Just got back from 4 months away with my Army unit and I'm on 2 weeks leaves at the moment so I thought I would show you all a small dio I have done LMK what you think.

Ron

When I saw the Star Trek The Original Series shuttle craft I knew that I had to make a diorama with it in it and what better way of doing that is to have it landed on a planet with a survey crew exploring it's surrendings, And as we all know that whenever a Landing Party goes to a new planet the poor old red shirt (security) are always the first to get killed so with that I started to make the diorama with the Red shirt getting killed by an alien monster. I painted everything using GW, Reaper and Vallejo paints.

RECIPE

Base - The base is a cheap picture frame I picked up from a 2 dollar shop it was re-inforced and then I used foam to make the rocks and then covered those with 2 parts of plaster of paris and fine sand and also added a tablespoon of wood glue to the mixture. Once dry I painted over it with different shades of browns and tans till I got the desired colour I wanted.

Shuttle - The shuttle is from Playing Mantis, I pulled it apart and cut out the door using a model knife and also added minor interior such as seats and console you can't see due to the figure in the door way. The shuttle was given numerous washes of light grey and once dry I also dry brushed it with flat white and dull grey to give it a worn look, I also added some weathering to it using falt back and falt brown.

Crew - The crew are from Preiser( German Tankers and German Infantry marching WW2 which are multi-pose figures which gives you the option of different positions you can put the figures in. Once I got the look I wanted I sanded of the uniform details and painted them in the uniform colours.

The Creature - The creature is also from Preiser(zoo/circus animals) I just added a tale using greenstuff 2 part putty to it as I wanted to keep it simplistic just like the Mugato(ape suit with added detail) and it was painted in browns, tans and drybrushed with 1 part brown and 1 part white.

Equipement - The equipment is again from Preiser which came from some 1/72 train figures and accessories.

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Avus

Member since
June 2003
From: Caput Mundi

Posted by Avus on Friday, October 6, 2006 2:42 AM

Wow, great build!

Those poor red shirts never made it through one episode.

Klaus

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cassibill

Member since
February 2003
From: Indiana, USA

Posted by cassibill on Friday, October 6, 2006 8:50 AM

Great work. I reminds me of the thing I found the other called 50 Ways to Kill a Red Shirt

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!! Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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Thehannaman2

Member since
August 2004
From: Buffalo NY

Posted by Thehannaman2 on Saturday, October 7, 2006 7:40 PM

Kirk- "We have no idea what could be down there. All precautions must be taken as we could be marching into our own dimise. The away team will consist of Mr. Spock, Dr.McCoy, Myself, aaaaaaaaannnd........... Ensign Skippy."

Ensign Skippy- "Aw, damn!"

Great build. I love the idea.

Justen

"The distance between genius and insanity is measured only by success."

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:45 AM

That is beautiful man. As a devoted fan of the original series I have to say it brought a tear to my eye. Do another one!!! But this time do the planet that the Galileo Seven is stuck on in "The Galileo Seven". Maybe show those giant neanderthal/bigfoot guys trying to hold down the shuttle as it lifts off. Some electrical work and metal parts could give you some sparks for.... "what? I'm just trying to give a guy some ideas, nothing bad will happen".

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 27, 2006 11:29 PM

Bravo!

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:23 AM

Hehe, great build! I have always had nightmares of being a red shirt in the original Star Trek series ;)

Cheers, SJD

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Dubau

Member since
March 2006
From: Boyertown, PA, USA

Posted by Dubau on Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:06 AM

See Red Shirt Run..... Run Red Shirt Run.......Dead Red Shirt........LOL

Cool build :)

Bud

" You've experienced a set back, and without set backs and learning how to fix them you'll never make the leap from kit builder to modeler "

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Mikeym_us

Member since
March 2004
From: Kincheloe Michigan

Posted by Mikeym_us on Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:00 AM

Medric my god man do you know what happens when you say nothing bad will happen. Something bad always happens. Run for the hill everyone something bad is going to happen I just know it!

On the workbench: Dragon 1/350 scale Ticonderoga class USS BunkerHill 1/720 scale Italeri USS Harry S. Truman 1/72 scale Encore Yak-6

The 71st Tactical Fighter Squadron the only Squadron to get an Air to Air kill and an Air to Ground kill in the same week with only a F-15 http://photobucket.com/albums/v332/Mikeym_us/

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