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Ptrope — The Other Side of the Fence
Published: 2012-05-18 03:06:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 1417; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 66
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A view of Engineering we wouldn't normally see, looking out from behind the screen. Maybe not the best way to show off the modeling of the new 'standy power units' (best name I could find online for them
), but I just had an urge to try a new angle. These are not the final colors - overall, this is still intended as a mostly-monochrome image, but I wanted to add a few contrasting colors to help define some of the elements, especially the glowy parts 
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Ooooo! Ahhh! MAN this is looking cool! And it is a neat/unique perspective on engineering.
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Wow. I wonder what the radiation count is like in here...
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Hopefully no higher than on the other side of the open screen
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A beauty!
Fun fact: the standy power units are the impulse engine fusion furnaces/cores. The angular unit on the other side of the fence, topped with the dome, that is, the dilithium assembly, is actually the top of the Warp core. Yes, Engineering is on the back side of the saucer in TOS, just under the impulse engine spine that extends forwards.
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Considering the original part of the set was just a painting, this really is going where no man has gone before.
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Umm, not a painting, but actually a "forced perspective" construction. Each "tube" towards the rear was built progessively smaller to produce the illusion that part of the set was far longer than it really was.
On the other hand, set paintings WERE employed for the "Motion Picture" engineering set, notably for the vertical portion. There's a particular publicity shot that has been published for years which was "snapped" at the wrong angle, so the intermix tube looks "bent" halfway down the shaft. The movie itself used the correct angle.
Sincerely,
Bill
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They also used a set painting to extend the visual length of the corridor in TMP (and if I'm not mistaken, this trick was employed for the 'gunfight corridor' in the detention area in Star Wars, as well ... )
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