Small Voyager PADD

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As Seen In:		Numerous episodes of Star Trek: Voyager
Time Spent:		About an hour.
Date Added:		April 14, 2005

This resin PADD was made by me using one of my old kits. Years ago, when I first made my build-your-own-padd templates available on my website, I molded one of the padds I built, and made resin kits. Some of the details were off, but it's still a fine looking kit. I got the wrong thickness for the center plate on this build up. You can also see that some of the curves and angles are a little different than the laser cut padds I did later. I actually started this particular padd a couple of years ago, and just never got around to finishing it until now. This padd is painted with the correct shade of 7173 that is now no longer in production. It's a bit rough in some spots, but I still like it because it represents the "State of the Union" as it was a few years ago. I did some experimentation with technique on a few different padd kits to see which worked best. I did a few different tests on painting styles, and graphic presentations. Some of my graphics were printed on pressure sensitive adhesive paper, others were printed on photo paper and lined with chartpak. There are advantages and drawbacks to each technique. The graphic featured on this padd is the "Plasma Constriction Map", a very common screen graphic from the bridge of Voyager. This particular graphic was drawn by me a few years ago based on screen captures from the CD-Rom "The Captians Chair". For this padd, I printed them in reverse on transparency paper, and then backed them with vinyl. Over the years, this technique has proven to be problematic. It turns out that the adhesive on the vinyl tends to slowly mix with the ink from the printer, causing it to fuzz out. It's particularly noticeable on blocks of black ink.