I had an idea today about dioraming a star trek ship de-cloaking. I was thinking of a cube with 4 glass sides. One side would just be a picture of space. The next one would be a picture of space but part of the glass would be wavy as if water was streaming down it. The third one would be wavy also but you can see the shape of the ship forming. And the last one would just be clear as the ship comes completely out of cloak. Suggestions and opinions are welcome.
Or you could do a model of the ship cloaked and just build a regular clear plastic cube with nothing in it.
That sounds great, but a little bit difficult. Let us know how it works out…as it is would be a fantastic piece!!
Hmmm. I see potential. Esp if you can make the cube rotate around the model going from one facet to the other. Of course this would mean that the model would have to be suspended in the cube…possibly from above…hmmmm[8)]
Just throwing out ideas!
instead of a cube, how about a loop of material that would rotate around the model, (on spindles- kind of like a tape loop in a vcr or cassette player)…ther would be no hard edge like a cube would have, adn you could do a forced perspective shadow box view for it? On the material (clear vinyl>) you’d paint the space scene (same as the background) then the next scene would be the shimmer of the de-cloak, followed by the image of the ship, then clear to show the actual model…
[#ditto] That would be a Cool!!! looking dio.
mark956
I’ve seen an Enterprise-D actually painted as though it were decloaking. The front half of the saucer was painted very realistically with stars, swirls, gas clouds, etc and the rest was finished normally. It looked pretty convincing.
Scott
I really like the idea. The model could mounted on a post and the cube on a tube around the post, rotate the tube to rotate the cube around the model (maybe a cylendar[sp.] instead of a cube?).
The panels will be what takes some thought!