"The Menagerie" kind of a remake of "The Cage", my favorite episode, Capt. Christopher Pike was awesome.

Mach71>  The question is... will it work? 

Gary

Lol, just watched 'The Mantrap' the other night where Professor Crater had one of these! 

Very cool, hope you're going to post more as you get her built. 

mach71

I dug this out today to work on between other projects.

It's a resin kit missing the barrel and a metal barrel had no body.

I'll need to source a metal or plastic tube to mount the barrel to the body.

 

 

 

Loved "The cage".

  There is a Photo of the "Hero" gun that shows a difference to your assembly.

Those "turned" metal parts cry out for nice bright LEDs in the barrels.

  Good project.  I'll stay tuned to this channel. Even if it's a 5-year Trek.

     Nino

GAF

Mach71>  The question is... will it work? 

Gary

 

And if so will the Talosians let me know it?

GAF

Mach71>  The question is... will it work? 

Gary

 

The episode where the Enterprise loses power and Yeoman Rand heats some coffee using a phasor set to 'heat' comes to mind. Since this is a laser not sure if it wouldn't just burn a hole in the pot though... 

I found a plumbing "T" that works. 

I just cut off a section.

More pin hole filling also.

I suppose I should light this, but I'm not sure.

Yeoman Rand could boil a cup of coffee just by staring at it...

Grace Lee Whitney. RIP.

Cadet Chuck

Yeoman Rand could boil a cup of coffee just by staring at it...

 

She boiled my coffee back in the day!

The 1st setback. All the putty I used filling the pin holes wont adhear to the resin. I've never seen this before. Back to baking soda and thin CA. 

I hope my thin CA is still good.

The baking soda/CA is working. Most of the big holes are filled. I had to reshape one end of the trigger box. 

I hit it with some grey primer yesterday and hundreds of tiny pin holes showed up!

Boy this casting is rough!

I broke out the red filler/primer and put a thin coat on last night. This morning I hit it with a thick coat. I hope this helps.

Ouch! I see what you mean about rough casting. Good job so far!!!

I met Whitney at a con back in the early '90s - as charming and sweet a lady as she was beautiful... 

Gamera

 

I met Whitney at a con back in the early '90s - as charming and sweet a lady as she was beautiful... 

 

Lucky man!

I did once ride an elevator with Nichelle Nichols back in 1976.

My Dad "stood" next to Walter Cronkite in a hotel men's room in the 1940's.  (He was always quite proud of this accomplishment.)

Lots more filling and sanding...

The pin holes just won't go away! So off to the auto parts store for some heavy scratch filling primer. 3 coats and sanding later Things were just about good.

I put 3 coats of black on. Then painted the adaptor tube gold. Thats where I am now.

Next I'll work on the trigger.

Cool project, Mach.

Looks good!!! 

Still amazes me that a lot of the fan made stuff like this looks better than the actual TV props. 

Cadet Chuck

Yeoman Rand could boil a cup of coffee just by staring at it...

 

No kidding. She is one of the few blondes I care much for. I'm usually a brunette man. Her, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Barbara Eden. Ironically I didn't care for either of them when they played their evil brunette sisters. Now Dawn Wells, she can bake me coconut cream pies until the cows come home! Nice work by the way lol.

midnightprowler

 

 

Cadet Chuck

Yeoman Rand could boil a cup of coffee just by staring at it...

 

 

 

 

No kidding. She is one of the few blondes I care much for. I'm usually a brunette man. Her, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Barbara Eden. Ironically I didn't care for either of them when they played their evil brunette sisters. Now Dawn Wells, she can bake me coconut cream pies until the cows come home! Nice work by the way lol.

 

Lol, I'm not much for blondes either but Whitney had an amazing pair of legs. Montgomery and Eden were both pretty but Dawn Wells- oh yeah she was a total knockout... 

Personally my opinion the uglest woman on Trek- Data in drag as the saloon gal in the ST:TNG episode where Worf was running the Western holodeck simulation. Brent Spiner- you're a pretty cool guy but you're one butt ugly woman...  

Blondes, brunette, red heads, It's all good. As long as the collars and cuffs match.

Anyway

I had to rework the trigger a bit, the slot was all wrong and the trigger was solid.

A look at the screen used Jein laser shows the trigger is "hook" shaped.

My dremel made quick work of the resin.

But, as you can see there is still some imperfections in the body. I swear that this is the last time I rework it.

So out came the brush on primer. Another sanding.

I put another coat of black on it, it's drying now.

Looking good Mach--just make sure you don't set that phaser to overload.

Like number 1 did!

All the big parts are together.

The kit I built was supposedly molded off one of the screen used props, I suspect the Greg Jein.

Here it is next to the old Playmate toy.

The old Playmates is actually very close.

Pretty cool sir.

Thanks!

I just have to glue in the 3 clear emitters and figure out a sight.

Probably some clear plastic with painted or taped edges.

The emitters are in.

Still thinking about the sight.

THAT Looks very, very, good!

 Sight? What sight.  Just follow the bean till it's on target.

Nice work Captain.  Real nice work especially on that "Holy" Handle.

   Nino

I missed your last update Mach. That DOES look really cool. Awesome work Mach, it looks better than the original!

Thanks guys.

And thanks Nino for the photo of the original, I forgot to give you credit for finding it! That helped a lot.

Looks pretty friggin' good to me Mach71!!!