LISTEN UP DAGGITS!If there are any other colonial refugees hiding out on this base star, and you wish to participate in this discussion, please feel free to chime in.
I'm going to be planning this project from stream of consciousness to finished replica. If and when each actual thing gets actually built, there will be actual pictures. The plan is for me to throw my ideas on the table and then for you to laugh at them. After that, I'll alter them, tempered with your wisdom, and try them out and see if they work despite starting life as laughable. At this point it should be fairly easy to decide whether or not the resulting parts are worth cutting and casting in multiplicate, perhaps for a small run of them. I'm pretty sure this is NOT the correct forum for sales, but that's getting waaaay in front of the cart. This thread is for the planning and build discussion. Parts of this project may even require collaboration.
Here's the plan as it exists in my head.
Cut crescent plate/tray from thick ABS sheet, as I have no way to cut metal. If the first one works out nicely we can get a small stack of these CNC cut for kits if there's demand.
Use first cut crescent as guide to cut guides for smoothly positioning link chain for freezing in-place to form the upper and lower borders of the crescent plate (see attached image) using probably super glue and baking soda. This chain-link border is represented as a zig-zag pattern on the plastic one that Kathy Pillsbury makes, and possibly on the real things if they still exist, but I think the chain link makes a sensible shortcut for adding a visual approximation of these border details.
Sculpey to make the dangly parts until I get some that look accurate. Bake those and hopefully someone here can replicate them in resin.
I intend to find a hemispherical cut carneian cabochon and make or buy a small sliver ring to encircle the cabochon setting.
Reasonable stand-ins for the other radial/floral greeblies which flank the cabochon, presumably representing the colonies, should be easily found in craft stores and hot-glued to the crescent before any base coats and subsequent masking, detailing and weathering.
They say a thing is easier said than done, and I have made it sound easy to my foolish brain. That's how I know it's not going to be, but at least for the moment this whole plan seems sound to me despite my trepidations arising from being a rather unserious maker.
I'm going to attach an image. I don't know its source. It's someone's attempt to make a fairly close match, proportionally, to the medallions used on the show, but I think it's more likely that it is simply another example of a Persian/Iranian/Etruscan or "Egyptian revival" Nassim bib necklace of a very similar style with a few obvious differences.
I intend to take some inspiration from this design while keeping other details as true to the original screen-used props as possible, depending on the final quality of my sculpted pieces.
