LCARS console replica

[Jake Conhale]

A while back I made a lightbox for a recreation of the LCARS on TNG's ops position.

I also have the CONN but need to make the box... not the happiest with how this turned out structurally but the graphic is as accurate as I could make it - using scaled images from the TNG Technical Manual and auction photos for the finer details. Still need to add blinkies.

The graphic itself is 12"x42", printed on a material meant for backlit signage. The colors were printed into the image, no pasting lighting gels onto the back. Wondering though if I could add a polarized rotating filter for fade effects, say for a section of the text.

It's actually backlight with an LED strip (only one, surprisingly, when I had initially planned for two to even out the light distribution), though I've wondered if edge lighting with, say, an aluminum foil backdrop would be sufficiently evenly lit while also allowing for a thinner console.

Also planning on making a transporter console as well.

What do you think?

 

[publiusr]

Neato!

 

[Tallguy]

So cool!

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Nice work

 

[SCE2Aux]

Fantastic! Always enjoy seeing the work of people who can make real-world trek items!

 

[Jake Conhale]

Notably, my graphic may even be better than the original, I found that the original text on the upper tabs, for example, weren't vertically aligned, so I cleaned that up. Debating if I should do something like with "paper towns" - that is modify the graphic is some slight way so as that Paramount can't say I'm directly ripping off Okuda. (Who, for the record, I would unabashedly bow before as a Prophet for his ability to predict where tech was headed)

 

[Rekkert]

This is looking very nicely! You don't have to worry about "paper towning it", feel free to be as accurate as you want with it.

The original graphic was modified through the years and new text added to it, which is why the font and alignment isn't always right. These weren't made with computers, so they have a lot of handmade charm to them.

 

[SuricataFX]

Looks great! I'm curious how it would look if you put a thin sheet of thin black plastic on the top of it. The original graphics were behind black tinted glass, which altered the way the colors looked slightly.

 

[ShapSix]

A while back I made a lightbox for a recreation of the LCARS on TNG's ops position.

I also have the CONN but need to make the box... not the happiest with how this turned out structurally but the graphic is as accurate as I could make it - using scaled images from the TNG Technical Manual and auction photos for the finer details. Still need to add blinkies.

The graphic itself is 12"x42", printed on a material meant for backlit signage. The colors were printed into the image, no pasting lighting gels onto the back. Wondering though if I could add a polarized rotating filter for fade effects, say for a section of the text.

It's actually backlight with an LED strip (only one, surprisingly, when I had initially planned for two to even out the light distribution), though I've wondered if edge lighting with, say, an aluminum foil backdrop would be sufficiently evenly lit while also allowing for a thinner console.

Also planning on making a transporter console as well.

What do you think?

This is incredibly cool! By chance do you sell the file you used to create it?

 

[Michael]

It doesn‘t seem like @Jake Conhale is posting here anymore. So you likely won‘t get a response. I will close the thread for now. Jake, if you end up back here and want the thread re-opened, just send me a PM.