My take on the Cylon Raider

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teslabe

Discussion Starter · May 13, 2012 (Edited)

It's been some time since my last post on this build and that was over in the Model Lighting forum, "Lighting my Cylon Raider". I asked Henry to merge the two over here, at least I think I did.....

One thing I did was add some flat black to his mouth vent, IMHO the CGI is bland, so this is my take on a great kit that I thought I wouldn't buy, not alot of F/X to add to it once the sweeping eye and flickering engine effect was done..... I did add a gun effect that is triggered when someone moves in front of it, the bump in the front of the base is a passive Infrared switch. Not happy with the sound file I used but it's impossible to get a clean sound effect from the show. Does anyone have one.......

I posted a short video on YouTube, I hope this link works.

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Paulbo

· #2 · May 13, 2012

Now THAT is a cool effect! And the model's done nicely, too.

Xenodyssey

· #3 · May 14, 2012

Oooh. The gun light and sound effects are really cool. The stand is neat as well.

teslabe

Discussion Starter · #4 · May 14, 2012

Paulbo said:
Now THAT is a cool effect! And the model's done nicely, too.

Thank you very much Paul.....:wave:

teslabe

Discussion Starter · #5 · May 14, 2012

Xenodyssey said:
Oooh. The gun light and sound effects are really cool. The stand is neat as well.

Thank you for the kind words, it was a nice kit to work on, just surprised that there hasn't been more people posting their builds......

xsavoie

· #6 · May 14, 2012

Isn't technology wonderful.Special effects works especially well in the hands of someone who knows how to use it.It would be interesting to put a simple starry space background in the back of it next time.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

miniature sun

· #7 · May 14, 2012

Top quality work...you've now tempted me to buy one :thumbsup:

teslabe

Discussion Starter · #8 · May 15, 2012

xsavoie said:
Isn't technology wonderful.Special effects works especially well in the hands of someone who knows how to use it.It would be interesting to put a simple starry space background in the back of it next time.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Thank you for thinking I know what I'm doing.....

Joking aside, I'm glad you liked it. Sometime when I get done with an idea I'm not sure I should post it because it might be just too dorky. Again, thank you.....:wave:

teslabe

Discussion Starter · #9 · May 15, 2012

miniature sun said:
Top quality work...:

From you that means alot, thank you.....:wave:

rowdylex

· #10 · May 15, 2012

Stunning effect with the base. Well done. :thumbsup:

RedHeadKevin

· #11 · May 15, 2012

Now that is really cool! I don't think I would have used green light for the base though. (I would have used red, to give more of a "flying through a Base Star " feel.) But the green looks eerie and great! One question: can you make the eye/engine lights work without the sound or gun effects? Although awesome, the sound could get irritating after hearing it 500 times in a row, or say, going to the can in the middle of the night. (See Dennis Leary's bit about the Darth Vader bank to understand what I mean.)

teslabe

Discussion Starter · #12 · May 15, 2012 (Edited)

RedHeadKevin said:
Now that is really cool! I don't think I would have used green light for the base though. (I would have used red, to give more of a "flying through a Base Star " feel.) But the green looks eerie and great! One question: can you make the eye/engine lights work without the sound or gun effects? Although awesome, the sound could get irritating after hearing it 500 times in a row, or say, going to the can in the middle of the night. (See Dennis Leary's bit about the Darth Vader bank to understand what I mean.)

Thank you very much......:wave: I will post a new video when the red "Breathing LED" effect is in, I had hoped to have had that circuit in and working sooner but I had to spend this weekend painting two Chariot
canopies that somehow never got done, I'll just say, No good deed goes
unpunished......:drunk: As for the sound effects, take a good look at picture
three in my first post and you'll see three switches on the rear of the base, one is a pushbutton to change the sweep effect for the eye, the other two are for main power and gun effect power. Yes, the effect can get old.......

kdaracal

· #13 · May 15, 2012

Clean and beautiful!

teslabe

Discussion Starter · #14 · May 16, 2012

kdaracal said:
Clean and beautiful!

Thank you, it was a fun build.....:thumbsup:

Trekkriffic

· #15 · May 17, 2012

That motion activated gun effect is greeeat! And the sweeping eye. Great job!

WEAPON X

· #16 · May 18, 2012

Sweet! :thumbsup:

Grumpy Popeye

· #17 · May 24, 2012

That is so cool! Very well done indeed!

Hunch

· #18 · May 25, 2012

Love the build and the lights and sound. Really nice work and I see you went for the clean look. I always get yelled at when i do that!

Hey at some point they had to be new, right?:thumbsup:

teslabe

Discussion Starter · #19 · May 26, 2012

WEAPON X said:
Sweet! :thumbsup:

You're very kind, thank you.....:wave:

teslabe

Discussion Starter · #20 · May 26, 2012

Darph Bobo said:
That is so cool! Very well done indeed!

Glad you liked it, thank you for taking the time to look and comment.....

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