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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on May 18, 2006 16:56:10 GMT -8
Finally! Just got my HughesNet Satellite unit hooked up out at the Red Rock Desert Site and all is right with the world (I am logged on from there right now, as a matter of fact). I've made arrangements for a Temp powerpole to be installed this week and once this is accomplished Phase One of the Project will be complete. Phase 2 will start with a 16'x12' Dojo Set to be built on one of the Bluffs on the mountainside which one of the first scenes will be shot. I am heading back into LA tommorrow to pick up the spacesuit, hopefully I can post some picks of the suit and helmet this weekend. With the move of my production office my schedule has been erratic at best, but once things settle back into it's normal pace I can accomlish more stuff. Keeping you posted...
somewayly,
Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on May 30, 2006 7:07:52 GMT -8
Spent the last three days here, the momorial day holiday, and boy did I learn a lot. I personally thought the weather stayed the same with seasonal variations but this week I now know about high gusty winds. Winds are common up to 80 mph, so I'm told, well this week I gusted up to about 30 and man talk about fierce, it swept avay everything that wasn't nailed down. I now have to do so major re-engineering in my building designs, anything I would have built thinking the way I was would now just be smashed into sticks, shrewn across the desert. The power pole is in, 600' to far away in my opinion, but hey, it's in now So. Ed. has to come and juice it from the pole.
seemingly,
Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Jul 1, 2006 18:15:24 GMT -8
Sorry for the long delay between post but between moving all of the stuff from the two production offices including the editbay out to the desert has taken 150% of my time and I still manage to put a few 16 hour days a week doing Grip work on other people's projects. I am currently off the grid completely using a 4k onboard genny on the office RV, with a smaller 3500 watt portable Genny that I use on the off hours that I can put 50ft away which helpl with the noise factor tremendously. I have added a second RV that is used as my main bedroom with the Front being used for the Multimedia Hangout room during the day and sleeps 3-6 crew/talent members. Discovered two new caves and there maybe more now that I have a better pair of binoculars. This fourth of July the "First Contact" party is happening, but contrary to the website the first event will be free and open to the public.
I have been having a rowe with So Cal Ed and now I want to wait until I get confirmed plot corners of property before I go further, if no more than to make sure all improvements are actually made on "my" property (Kernites as they are called can be very touchy about that kind of stuff. I am taking bids on a well and once that's in a pool and jacuzzi will soon follow. Both a necessity if one is to survive in the desert where the temps easily hit the one-teens. Learning this desert life is fun and exciting but also very very dangerous. For instance today we set up a filmcan target and shot guns most of the morning then hiked arond the perimerter of the property following water flow and possible shot locations. Production will pick up this week after the holidays and I will press to have the script ready by next week and shooting the first scenes by the next weekend
perriwinkally,
Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Jul 21, 2006 8:52:04 GMT -8
We have been here at the compound (yes, it can now be considered a compound) and as I write this I am here, alone, supposedly working on the Ranger script. The power pole is still not hooked up.... damit, but it turns out just as well, because, I found a concrete pad alread poured on my property, 1,000' to the east. After the fouth of July weekend party and the ensuing party tinged visits, this place is a total disaster, it's been the boys club for the last three week-ends, and you know how boys are. Theres trash and dirty clothes and nuts everywhere, and I'm the only one here.... d**n. Just got good news though, the 3500 watt genny that has slowly been redesigned for desert duty, has gotten totally f**ked up now. Before, the pull string keep breaking so we took the whole fancy mechinism off and wrapped a pullcord directly to the motor, I accidently bent the flow valve attached to the gas tank when the pullrope got stuck to the flywheel, as it went around, and around, the pullrope handle hit the valve bending it, and when I tried to bend it back, it broke the weld....d**nit, gas went everywhere. I had already talked to the manager over at the Pep Boys, where I bought it from, and told her about the pullrope defect, and she told me to just bring it back, and she would just give me another one. But that was before the valve accident. When I first got to the store, and was waiting for the manager to finish with a customer, I was purusing the genny section and noticed that they had a new line of gennys that had just come in, slightly better designed, with more features (like pushbutton start), and they had volt meters right on the genny. Then I noticed that there was only $100 difference between my 3500 watt genny, and a higher end, 5500 watt.....d**nit. Well anyhoo, I told the manager (a guy) that was now on duty how when the pullrope broke, it caught the valve and bent when I tried to free it and broke when I bent it back, he also said just bring it back no problem we have a 60 day 100% satisfaction garrantee. Then I asked if I could trade up to the 5500 watt genny he said "Sure no problem!". So Sunday I will have a new 5500 watt genny...... Can you see me doing the happy dance probably, Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Aug 16, 2006 20:26:06 GMT -8
Well the 5500 lasted about 6 days of good use and it refused to work so I gave up on the genny based Power system for the basecamp compound. Buying a second battery array for the second trailer ( the previous owners, sold off the battery set-up, the engine, and the onboard genny before I got to it) , and hopefull a Solar Panel or two with the refund, I will come out way better, and I don't have to hear that awful genny running, except when I need the microwave or to run something heavier duty. I still have the onboard genny office trailer that will work for that thirty minutes or so. I figured out that if I charge the batteries by jumping them with the car while it's running and it charges my onboard batteries to almost full for another good 4 to 5 hours of inverter use. Checking the gas running the idle for those two hours only used an 1/8 to a 1/4 of a gallon where as the same amount of time running the 3500 would have been almost a 1 -1/2 gallons, and the would have been a gallon in the 5500. That a huge difference in savings and in the noise factor, the car idling in park is so quiet you hardly hear it running. In case you didn't catch it Alex has posted begun posting his new drawings and sketches for the shuttle and fighter jets to the Ships thread in the Technology section of this BBS. They are pretty friggin Awesome. >>>>>> CLICK HERE <<<<<<< I have narrowed the designs down to the use of a set of Domes as the main Complex for the colony, and the interiors will be used as the standing sets of the ship's interiors. The complex is made up of 1 50' dome surrounded by a half-circle of 5 smaller 30' connected domes. Something along these lines. excitedly, Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Feb 20, 2007 14:53:55 GMT -8
Sorry for not posting but RL work has kept me swamped, but it is so nessary if this project is to be successful. We are currently finishing part 4 of a 12 part shoot for the "Real American Army Hero's" for the Army (http://www.americasarmy.com/realheroes/ ) Shot in High-def we fly all over the country interviewing the Candidates. Make no mistake about it these guy are truely American Hero's. I have definately walking away from this project with a redifined meaning of what Starfleet is all about, and what it takes to be involved in a service like this.
Just finished the inital design for the SF Ranger HQ. and now we are ready to start implementing production phase. will post the Jpgs as soon as they are scanned and hosted. After all the trouble and nashing of teeth we finally settled on the 3500 version of the gas genny. I picked up a new one right before Christmas and it has been doing duty since, without a hitch. I will start the initial city structures in two weeks for the main stages. Man talk about a long haul... whew!
finally,
Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Apr 28, 2007 9:21:04 GMT -8
Well the Wind Generator is temporaly set up and doing well. My 6 battery batterybank are finally charged 100% with the help of a kick-ass DieHard charger I just got. By the middle of May I should have done the company move to the new location, much further back on the property and further down. I should have the two 20' Cargo containers in place and hopefully the roof between them will follow. Once the space is enclosed I can start building sets. Next week I fly to Tennessee for a week to shoot another installement of the Army series. When I get back from that I will start to shoot some plates for the series. First up a local cement plant nearby in Tehatchappi that will double as the Mars Colony, the building I intend to double as the Starfleet HQ building.
mostly,
Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Jun 22, 2007 7:17:46 GMT -8
Well the process continues. I am setting the first wardrobe test shoot July 21st and the 22nd. The most of the main cast will be shot for the intro as well. I will build a green screen set right in our warehouse using the 12 x 12 greenscreen with 2 4' x 8' sheets of show card painted with greenscreen paint for the floor. A small jib on a doorway dolly, with skateboard wheels, and 1/4 of curved track should yeild some pretty nice stuff using the Pansonic HVX 200. Lucky for me, I have all this stuff inhouse. A good friend of mine Stan Shumlick, has begun work on the 3d models of the ships designed by Alex meshed by blaxxer. The only thing left is shoes/bootwear.
concurrently,
Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Sept 1, 2007 10:35:46 GMT -8
Well it has been slow, no details on anything. The ship modeling that is suppose to be done by Stan, is on hold because of his mothers health. The patchs on hold, due to shortness in the budget at this early stage. Finally found the makers of the gas-powered skateboard. Nifty.
undoubtly,
Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Mar 4, 2008 20:41:49 GMT -8
I need to update this board. It has been a while.
Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Sept 2, 2008 17:53:10 GMT -8
Well a bunch of stuff happened, we got the guns in, well at least the resin mold kits, they still need to be finished and painted. The parts for the Space suits are almost all here, I have two of the Dirt Devil Vacumes that will be the Breathers on the backpacks. The two ship patches are almost finished. Jose Ralat (http://joseralat.com/) has done a fabulous job and will be finished soon. All the uniforms for the extra's walking around in several of the scenes have been procured. I have the RS Media Robot, and two small 3rd size matching robots for any stunt work that needs to be done.
Rick Smith
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Oct 17, 2008 15:23:36 GMT -8
Well just got the new ship meshes back and I am happy. The Fighter Jet looks awesome, it just needs to be finalized and texture mapping needs to be added. The Vulcan Diplomat Ship Vormeth, is also well on and being finalized. I think I found the 3D mesh of a really cool landing pad as well. I got the camcorders I wanted, and we now have a first run prototype 3D rig and have already shot some sample footage with it. Brian is trying to get some editbay time to do the process. We shot some great footage while we were in Vegas. If you go to the Camera section you can see pix...
Rick
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Jun 3, 2010 20:35:18 GMT -8
Sorry have been busy with other projects, mainly trying to secure the project in Mojave.
Rick
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Jan 26, 2014 14:01:51 GMT -8
Yea!!!...
We now have our 20 acre parcel of land. Now to begin to build the Academy building...
mgmt.
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Post by Starfleet Mgmt on Feb 28, 2019 14:29:58 GMT -8
============= START TRANSMISSION ============= Starfleet Datalink Upload Stardate: 2019.02.28 Time: 014:25:00 ============ START TEXT MESSAGE ============= R. A. E. Smythe Date: 2019.02.28 Starfleet Command Developer's Log #44 Hory Shet... Sorry for the long span between Dev Updates here, but I have been riding the Roller Coaster Crazy Train, that is Life. Facebook had a lot to do with the length, but mostly because the Project has been so fluid. So anyway, to make a long story short, big Dev Update coming, when I get back on my Computer (don't ask)... Live Long, and Prosper... in service, Smitty ============ END TEXT MESSAGE ============= Commander R. A. E. Smythe III Esq. Starfleet Command - Mojave www.facebook.com/Sir-Richard-A-E-Smythe-III-Esq-859006397551685/Join us on Facebook: Starfleet Command - Mojave www.facebook.com/groups/831634426876757/============= END TRANSMISSION =============
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