Star Trek Warp Engine Effect

[TaCoskun]

Nice!

[Incadazant01]

Um, no effects here, just a nice set of Buzzard collectors from TOS or ENT.

[AaronAmeerBeg]

I would like to point out that those are more likely to be the hydrogen collectors on the nacelles. the warp engine its self is drive plasma down the length of the nacelle or some scientific mumbojumbo :P

[SisterIdaKnow]

do you have a parts list and constructions details? This would be fun to create more.

[racefan32]

So I PREsume this is the Front of the Bussard Collectors?

[bdkaka]

pretty cool!!!!

[xparade0de]

You can build great plasma balls - lamps  - but a warp drive is something else - if you can create a field that makes objects invistible and then see a blue light and the object is far away - than you have a warp drive

[garcaidavid95]

lol what is that sht?

[Danfromyateley]

Oh well. I hoped it would be a video about the warp core in a decent star trek series. But this is the NACELLE from TOS. Shame.

But still, it's an impressive representation. Congrats.

[Freddran]

hmm lol

[BloodSonicFlux]

@C12830772 Then whats the shuttlebay?

[andtastic1]

very cool

[elvampiro89]

Amazing!! You are very talented...and you must love Star Trek as much as I do..Bravo.

[Freefalldreams]

That's one of my favourite light effects from Star Trek, and you did a good job replicating it.

[Draknfyre]

The original ones did not rotate. The "fins" on the inside were painted lines. The lightbulbs were set into a rotating circle, and they rotated. It gave the illusion that the "fins" spun, but they never did.

[SinnFein4ever]

@Draknfyre

How did you know that?

O o

[Draknfyre]

@SinnFein4ever

From the original prop creator research people have done. Affter I made that comment, I was thinking about it, and I was confusing the original prop with a kit making a model. The original domes did not spin, but the inner dome with the painted lines did. Otherwise, my comment was correct. The inner lights spun, on a circle, and consisted of red, green, blue, and yellow bulbs.

[SinnFein4ever]

@Draknfyre

You're pretty cool.

:)

[awilliams1701]

I like the "modern" ones in the NX-01 and the E. They look like fire.

[28stads]

They also rotated on the inside.

[spacecowboy5000]

Great work! I hope to see the finished product.

"Mr. Scott, I think we left something behind!"

[lander77477]

I hate to criticize such hard work but the blinking LEDs don't look right, there should be rotating blades inside there to make it look like the original

[katakisLives]

I think they are called bussard collectors I cannot remember for sure! they would look great on a constitution class model, really authentic

[SIMO97BALDI]

@katakisLives yes the correct name is bussard collectors (nominated in star trek insurrection) [the italian name is "collettori bussard"]

[finalfrontier1701]

@SIMO97BALDI Actually, these were named as early as the fourth season of TNG titled "Night Terrors"... They were mentioned in a second season episode "Samaritan Snare" as simply hydrogen collectors.

[SIMO97BALDI]

@finalfrontier1701 But these are are those of the original series that are different from those of TNG onwards

[finalfrontier1701]

@SIMO97BALDI My point was that they were named way prior to Insurrection. Whatever you call them, this is very fine work. Wish I had your skills!

[49bobbyk]

Dear C12830772, they do look like boobs. Anti matter boobs.

[midlothianboy]

PUNCH IT!

[Ashenion22]

Looks like lit oranges.

[Mollyearth1]

very cool!

[maskscraper]

engage!

[bubbahotep68]

Would those fir the AMT model?

[Trendkillertrendy]

Nice work!

[WeeklyNewsPoopShoot]

fassinating.

[CommentorX]

I cannae holder capt'n! She's gonna blow!

[NoahLDiamond]

Could use motion blue and streaking, along with extended light pots and post processing distortion.

[redgaridose]

now when is it going to be launched

[SHADOSTRYKR]

while moving fans would be needed to be authentic, I prefer this over the original

[JASHUH]

The master replicas version is far better, this needs the moving fans effect to see it.

[JASHUH]

The master replicas version is far better, this effect needs the fans moving.

[PublicAccessChannel]

Wow... only 40 comments and the Trekies & Trekkers are not in agreement? It is too obvious... who is debating this Star Wars fans?

[LouistheHedgehog]

No, this looks like the front of the warp coils.

[Spectual1]

@LouistheHedgehog

you mean front of the Warp Nacelles which are called Buzzard collectors

[zer0dahero]

The vid info says its 'a more realistic effect' You made a more realistic effect of something that doesn't exist. Any effect is just as realistic when its all fake!

[gobldegook1]

Yea I agree lol. The term 'realistic' refers to making something appear more like real life. Thats impossible when an impulse drive or whater (not warp) doesn't exist irl.

[RandoRoller]

Thrusters.

Hasn't got anything to do with warp.

[ecyor0]

Well, seeing as how they're attached to the warp nacelles, you can understand how people could make an erroneous conclusion.

[cprich22]

i think he meant the rear of the necel effect

[Chase772]

now lets see you take them to warp lol!

[Chase772]

good job with that you figured it out huh?

[clunem]

hey, mrchacko, they didnt have replicators in the Constitution starships

[thatdood001]

Nicely done...although hardcore Trek Nerds will nitpick and whine about these actually being the Bussard Collectors, and not the "warp engines", or about them being the wrong color, among other petty gripes.

Oh, wait...they already are.

[Fretslayer]

I guess that's bound to happen when you use a design that has decades and generations behind it.

Sort of like playing Stairway to Heaven and doing it RAP - you're going to get sh1t for it...and rightly so.

In any event, I though this was a pretty cool little test.

[finalfrontier1701]

Wow! How nerdy of you to know those things!

[CaptDouchebag]

Isn't this a "warp nacelle effect" and not a "warp engine effect?"

[mrchacko]

Yes, those are the nacelles collecting particles to power the replicators.

[Tomtheflyboy]

well done!

[floridamadman59]

where can I get the schematic for it?

[Spamminat0r]

That wahat you show are the bussardcollectors.

[intim8er]

Brovo! Looks great!

[terminattheconqueror]

almost perfect its just a little bit more pink than orange

[oetproductions]

nice try looks pretty good:)

[rad4life1]

that's it? wat a waste of time!

[zackiscrazy95]

nice

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

pretty effect,doyou see the rotating blades in the "enterprise "trailer.?

[modeler308]

I am currently scratchbuilding a 6ft long Constitution class and the lighting will mostly be LEDs. Am still experimenting on the 'rotating' lighting effects for the Nacelle front caps. Hard to do with a 3" end cap and a 36in long nacelle as I am NOT an electrical engineer.

[ryanbeeble]

haha sry dude

[ryanbeeble]

watch this video it shows tht warp engines are almost close to being made

/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

[IPoppedArt]

damnit thats twice lol

[anoldchick]

ty i now know how to git it to work im puting it on my modle

[ZebraKawaii]

All my physics class were laughing at you!

ha ha! (even the teacher!)

[geldonyetich]

ZebraKawaii: "All my physics class were laughing at you!"

I'm pretty sure he was talking about visual effect, and not the actual physical effect. Oh well, at least you made them langh by completely misreading what he was doing here.

[aribenzane]

perfect!

[eleanorroosevelt1]

activate the blue lights mr. scott, the klingons are exceeding the warp speed limit.

[jatontherun]

Did you build this yourself or retrofit the kits set? If you did it is excellent work. Do you have plans to share?

[wrestlesomnia]

im thinking of getting a NX-class modelship

[dingorex]

Are those jugs to be worn by Wil Wheaton digitally?

Because that girl couldn't act and she was soooo flat chested.

[theknowbody]

Cool, are those little plasma balls?