Treknology in Paper, Sep '07

Mike Haggard, that renaissance man of the internet, has struck again to give us a new addition to his Star Trek Away Team standard issue by releasing a 1:1 - yes, full sized! - Type 3 Phaser Rifle on his www.albionrising.com website. Just click on the Trek P.M. link at the top of the page, download the 19 page pdf then checkout the photos in his gallery before building it. There's sure to be some debate about accuracy by the canon police: is it a Type 3 phaser or a compression rifle? Mike says that he will be updating the files with alternative parts to construct all versions.

So next time you have to beam down to a hazardous convention you'll have no reason for not having the essential equipment to defend your honour!

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Andrew Skupinski has had the Papermodel II Google group afire since mid August with his two major projects which he has had going at the same time - a card model of the Enterprise NCC 1701-D bridge, Picard's Enterprise of TNG, and its successor, the 1701-E bridge as seen in the movies from ST: Generations onwards.

As of today...

• The 1701-D has just finished Beta testing and is now available from Jon Leslie's Lower Hudson Valley Paper Model Giftshop ( Models for Download / Sci-fi Models - at the bottom of the page) - For more info, check out the Google group thread or Beta build and release thread on Zealot.
• Skip's 3D model of the 1701-E has been unfolded and he has started texturing the parts - check out the old and the new Google group threads.

These are major works - big models on 25 pages! - magnificent technical and artistic achievements which will become the centrepieces of a model-maker's collection! Watch out - his fertile imagination is brewing up more to follow on from these!

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In other news ...

• Skip has released a neat stand, again on the PMII Google group, that uses a magnet to hold the ship on so that you can de-mount it without any unsightly slots
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• Panzer posted on the Zealot cardmodel forum that Skip's USS Ambasador and Phoenix models were now available on Jon Leslie's LHVPMG website.
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• Bmanic & Panzer have posted simple yet effective card-made props of the TNG & Voyager style combadges on the Zealot cardmodel forum
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• Dyna-Soar shares some pic's of how he lit his model of the USS Sagittarius
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• Marko "D-WHALE" Haertel has made available a model of Space Station K-7 from the TOS episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" on the German Cardmodel forum kartonbau.de. For those who have trouble registering on the German forum, Panzer will arrange a file transfer for you if you PM him from the Zealots Cardmodel forum (registration required).
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• Starship Builder has posted a modification of Alan West's Hypospray on the Zealots cardmodel forum
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Jim Lionmane posted a heads-up on the Papermodels Google Group to a Next Generation Tricorder that had been designed by Nothing (that's the designer's screenname) and released on the Zealots Cardmodel forum (registration required).
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My thanks to the designers, posters and the paper modeling groups that form our extended family, especially the Papermodel II Google group and the the Zealot cardmodel forum.