Cool, I'll check those out.

I've decided to make my own Stargate for the simple fact that I don't want an actual "Stargate" like the one in the Movie or on the T.V. Show. It's going to be the same thing, and do the same things, but I want "same concept;different story" I still might buy these models, if nothing else than for reference. Thanks!

What type of difference do you want to make? Do you want to still use symbols like the stargate on tv, or just some kind of 'gate' to another world? I think that the stargate idea is neat to begin with, so it would be nice to see what other people invision and what else can be done.

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The styrofoam one looks pretty sweet to me so far. Maybe surrounding it in something so that you can put on symbols would do the trick, as for scale, it looks good to me. Nice to see that a jeep can go through it too.

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I just want the same thing, a big alien circle that transports to another place. I just don't wanna incorporate "StarGate" into my Dios.

I'm gonna coat my StyraFoam with either PaperMache' or spackling and then put alien glyphs or symbols on it and paint it. I want it to look like stone or steel, or If I can find a unique effect, an alien material!

I agree with Dersham, I like the idea that a Jeep can go through it, that is one of the things I always wondered about the show... sometimes they'd go through the gate and make a comment like "We have to walk 7 kilometers east", I'm thinking screw that... send me through the gate with some quads or something...

So I like your idea about making a world to world gate, but not doing 'stargate', your ideas of paper mache or spackling on the styrafoam is a good idea. I personally would go with the spackling, you can get a lot of texture on it and make it have a stone look... I have never had luck with paper mache at all...

Is this gate going to be something ancient that was dug up on earth? found floating in space and brought back down? new technology just made (probably not if you are putting alien symbols on it, unless it was recently recovered from a downed alien craft)? etc., I'd suggest coming up with a good backstory first, then making it look the part.

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Yeah, I wanted it big enough to at least send my PTE Mutt jeeps or PTE Dune Buggy's through. As for the Backstory, I want to reverse engineer the way you're thinking about it. If I come up with a GREAT backstory and the Gate doesn't look the Part, I'm screwed. However, If the Gate looks Great, I can adjust the story around that! If the gate looks Piddley, I can make it just a minor part of the Story. I'm thinking of it being in an Alien Craft that is found buried (ala the 1981 version of "The Thing"). But again, I wanna see If I can do this....

I'll keep ya posted on how it goes!