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I figured that I wanted to make my own now since Insurretion used a slide viewer... I now just need to figure out how to make it and where to get the slide viewer. Does anyone know what that item is?
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I'm making mine out of vacu-formed plastic, with a hi-res LCD backed by LightSheet... But I'm making one modelled after the big 'un from DS9. I didnt like the Insurrection ones. And I never knew anything about a slide viewer. That seems depressingly lo-tech...
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Ah, the inevitable Storm-Trooper armor. No, but that's really cool. I had no idea. Or I didn't remember. Anyway, cool.
I'm building my first shop-vac table (based on several of this guy's ideas, but 2'X2' and using two electric griddles instead of the Sunbeam grill) and I'd love to pick your brain for tips.
For your PADD, did you pull clear acrylic and then paint everything but the screen? I suppose if one felt like getting really nerdy about it, one could probably stick a Palm (or an iPod!) in there.
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Someone made a tricorder with an old Arari Lynx in it- you could play the game and everything (no idea if or how you'd swap cartridges). I saw it years ago at a Con - back when SoFla still had such things.
There have been many resin kits of the tricorder and really, it's easiest to convert the old PLaymates toy into a perfect prop.
But I digress- try Gogling for tupperware. I bet there are several tupperware lids that could be sandwitched together to make a great Padd with no Vaccuforming pain-assery involved. Clear plastic too.
hmmm...check the prop builders forums: there is a perfect Cardassian doorbell/lock prop that shows up in Ebay in resin now and then- I'm sure someone had made a Padd.
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It's in storage right now, along with most of my other worldly possessions, but...
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