It's been a little while since I got a model done. I was commissioned to create a decal sheet for FASA's Romulan Stormbird to fit the AMT TOS Klingon D-7. Since I had the decal done, I printed an extra for myself and used the Klingon ship I used to measure the panels for the decal.
A green and/or a red/beige variant should be done too, for variety. And it might look better to have the feather-ends angled, like pentagons or septagons. The simplicity of the pattern looks a bit childish here, it worked better on the small BoP, where the pattern was much less exposed...
Perhaps the individual feathers could be serrated? Like a real feather would be?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I still think a black and gold "Trans-Am" version would look cool.
Okay, mabye not.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Or the newer way to go with blue neon hull glow and spinning nacelle covers....
Ok, you can shoot me now....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
A and a "Darwinfish" on the back that reads "Vulcan".
Posted by SoundEffect (Member # 926) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim: A green and/or a red/beige variant should be done too, for variety. And it might look better to have the feather-ends angled, like pentagons or septagons. The simplicity of the pattern looks a bit childish here, it worked better on the small BoP, where the pattern was much less exposed...
Perhaps the individual feathers could be serrated? Like a real feather would be?
Other color schemes would be cool to see. The pattern was based on the FASA miniature from an advertizing poster. This wasn't for me, but was a commission for a client. He provided the specs and approved the design along the way and got what he wanted. I just printed two decal sheets, sent one to him and kept the other that you've seen here. I did start out a design that would better suit the movie version Klingon ship; very angular hard edges, but the client wanted the rounded feather look like the FASA original.
Here's the initial design idea I did for the angular feather pattern. It's based off the Stormbird pattern from the Romulan Ship Recognition Manual: