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#1 Damon1984

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Posted 23 February 2018 - 02:27 PM

Hi :)

 

After recently getting back into collecting, I started building a playset for my TNG-Figures. It's made entirely out of card and paper (and a bit wire). The colors aren't exactly screen accurate, and it turned out to be maybe 30% too small (I'm really surprised how big the original set actually was! O_O). Also, in hinsight, it was a bit stupid to build the Generations-Variant for I have no custom figures to man the new consoles. Still, I like the outcome.

 

I made a little fun "ad". Hope you like it  :)

 

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Posted 24 February 2018 - 08:14 AM

Looks absolutly great!!!

Love it!

Wish I was as creative as you!



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Posted 25 February 2018 - 05:35 PM

Very impressive, I really liked that version of the bridge in the film.

 

It's crazy how the much different lighting of the Generation set made it look so much more natural, as opposed to the overfilled "sit-com lighting" that persisted throughout TNG. They talk about that quite a bit on the director's commentary to Generations.

 

Years ago I wanted to so something similar with the TNG playset: keep all the furniture but make it closer to the scale by creating a new floor and walls. Easy enough to do having a lot of the original playset items.



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Posted 27 February 2018 - 10:13 AM

Looks absolutly great!!!

Love it!

Wish I was as creative as you!

 

Maybe you are. Who knows? I'm a newbie myself and I honestly didn't expect this to work at all. That's why I used card. It's easy to handle and very cheap (I think the whole bridge cost me ~ 15 Euros. Thats what - 18 dollars?). If something doesn't work, just scrap it and start anew. :)

 

Very impressive, I really liked that version of the bridge in the film.

 

It's crazy how the much different lighting of the Generation set made it look so much more natural, as opposed to the overfilled "sit-com lighting" that persisted throughout TNG. They talk about that quite a bit on the director's commentary to Generations.

 

Years ago I wanted to so something similar with the TNG playset: keep all the furniture but make it closer to the scale by creating a new floor and walls. Easy enough to do having a lot of the original playset items.

 

Oh, yeah, the lighting was great. The whole cinematography of Generations was outstanding. I'm actually a fan of the hotel look, and though I know what Roddenberry and Co were going for with the look of the bridge, I always thought the command centre could have been a biiit busier. :)

 

If you scale up the floor you have to scale up pretty much everything - except for the chairs. I really wish I could have used the original chairs (I never owned the playset). What I think everyone with the playset could do is building a roof. It sounds a bit stupid, but I think in pictures, it makes all the difference.



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Posted 01 March 2018 - 06:00 PM

TNG bridge is an okay set, but the walls don't like to stay connected together (there are flimsy figure-8 hooks of sorts that are supposed to attach at the top), the conn and ops consoles like to fall apart. And the whole floor is slippery as hell and kind of bouncy, so standing up the figures inside the set is not easy.

 

For parts, you can buy half-busted bridge playsets on eBay pretty easily. There are plenty of loose ones with tons of crap missing. But the parts are useful.

 

Honestly, the engineering playset is far better -- the lack of walls is actually kind of nice -- even though it's wholly inaccurate. The thing with engineering is that if you have enough of them, you can use the spare parts to build it out closer to scale, so that the whole thing is circular.






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