Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country met me with mixed feelings. This would be the last we would see the original cast in their original roles all together in a film. That film was amazing! The Klingon Cruiser, a K’Tinga design that was made into the Chancellor’s Flag Ship was gorgeous, and intricate. We managed to build the very first replica of the model used in that film, and I thought I would add it to this fantastic scene with the Starship Enterprise on it’s Starboard side. I hope you enjoy it!
Below is the Blue Screen Photo used to create the above Composite. Click on it to be taken to the full set of Blue Screen Photos of this model.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a film I shall remember for my lifetime. It had many great things about it, and was the last we would see the original actors together in a film. One very memorable scene is after the Enterprise mysteriously fired it’s torpedo’s on the Chancellor’s Flagship K’Ronos One. We are the first to replicate the studio scale filming model, and as such… are able to replicate certain scenes in composite form…. This is the replicated scene where Captain Kirk must face surrender, lest causing a diplomatic incident, and war. I hope you enjoy it!
Below is the Blue Screen Photo used to create the above Composite. Click on it to be taken to the full set of Blue Screen Photos of this model.
I must admit I miss doing this type of work. This was absolutely FUN!! Utilizing a screen capture from the Star Wars film “The Force Awakens”, I also utilized my Blue Screen photos of the Dan Grumeretz build of the 1/24 KORBANTH T-70 X-Wing that the character Poe Dameron flew in that same film.
ILM paved the way to do these type of things… and Photoshop is one of the tools that came from their excellence.
Below is the Blue Screen Photo I used to re-create this scene. Click on the photo to be taken to the full set of Blue Screen Photos of this Model
During the building of Battlestar’s Atlantia, Galactica, and Pacifica, artist Dan Grumeretz took a few photos, one of which I used to create the Composite you see below. The Vipers are actually R.L. Bleecker builds from my own Collection and Blue Screen photos. If you look very closely, you will see three of those Vipers landing on Atlantia…. with two coming in further back. They nearly look like dots, don’t they? Also, much closer we see a set of three off the port side of Galactica, with two even more close toward Galactica’s aft area. I felt adding these elements gave it a more realistic feel.
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Being that the best experienced Colonial Pilots are spread thin these days, Captain Apollo rarely gets to share the skies with his best friend… Lt. Starbuck. Such was one of these days. A colony-type planet had been detected a few light years in front of the fleet and needed to have some recon done…. their names were first on the flight roster. Detecting no hostile presence, the two friends shoot for the deck of the planet to discover most of it covered with water. Alone, with beautiful skies above, deep blue oceans below…. and a whole world of freedom waiting to hear the screaming of Viper engines for the first time….. Apollo looks over at Starbuck… who just nods, and waves his hand as if to say “after you” while placing his cigar back in his mouth…. their hot dog piloting was about to begin.
Continuing as the second “atmospheric flight” composite collection piece suggested for me to do by master artist Ben Lim, while using my Blue Screen photos of the fantastic studio Viper builds done by R.L. Bleecker from the hyper accurate MSLZ22 Model kits, and using a few elements from various sources… I was able to create this scene as I viewed it in my head. What I found especially challenging was getting the reflections correct both on the Vipers themselves… as with the water beneath them. The angle of the sun made it very difficult to determine what was to be seen.
