Dial the Gate sits down with Stargate fan and propmaker Remington Phillips to share past projects and unveil a new Stargate item which has been in development for over 18 months…

We are also joined once again by fan propmaker Martin McClean!

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Timecodes
00:00 – Opening Credits
00:23 – Goa’uld Ribbon Device
06:49 – Stargate Command GDO
10:23 – Zat Gun
15:51 – Replicator Pistol & Ancient Personal Shield
22:05 – Communication Stones
24:53 – Kino
28:03 – Replicator
30:11 – Zero Point Module
35:20 – Martin McClean’s Stargate Props
40:23 – Wrapping up
41:09 – End Credits

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TRANSCRIPT
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David Read
How are y’all doing? Wow. End of day one. How many of you is this your first Gatecon? All right, sweet. You digging it so far? All right, Mr. Remington Phillips, where are you, sir? Come on out, of SG1props.com. There he is. Wow, give him a hand everyone.

Remington Phillips
Hello.

David Read
What is this?

Remington Phillips
Well, what we’re looking at here is a replica of one of the famous Stargate props from SG-1 called the Kara kesh, or the ribbon device. This is a kind of a redesign of what was in the original movie. When they spun off the TV series they wanted to keep some original stuff from the movie and reimagine some other stuff. This is one of those reimagined props that we got in the series and for me as well, it also happens to be the first thing that I tried replicating when I first got into props. This is a long time ago, about 20 years. I’ve designed a lot of these over the years.

David Read
Does this one light up.

Remington Phillips
This one does not light up and it’s really just because I didn’t have time to put the light bulb?

David Read
Is this a newer build?

Remington Phillips
Yes. This one is the latest one I built. I put this one together for the convention because we wanted to put something in the charity auction. So this one is actually something that you could take home.

David Read
A lot of what we’re showing, you can take home with the charity auction, which is I believe, tomorrow evening, if I’m not mistaken.

Remington Phillips
I believe you’re correct.

David Read
I hope so.

Remington Phillips
So just a brief history of how I approach something like this, and why I originally got interested in it and how the process works. This prop, it’s pretty complex even though it’s relatively small. There’s a lot going on with this prop. When I first got interested in Stargate props and costuming, it was a few years into the shows so very early 2000s. A lot of people were putting together costumes, they were trying to replicate the military jackets, the technology props, things like this. People started asking me, “Hey, can you help? Can you put this together for me?” So this was originally a commission for me. A friend of mine wanted to cosplay as a goa’uld and wanted a ribbon device. So okay, I say “I’m going to start trying to figure out how to put this thing together.” That started me on a long journey of building props, trying to figure out how these things are designed and made and really getting into all kinds of neat fabrication as a result of it. This one is made from a resin component that I originally sculpted out of clay and made molds of, made resin casts. I put electronics in these with fingertip controls, just not on this one. I’m actually redesigning this prop right here. Now, with 3d printers and laser scanners and laser cutters and things like that, I’m able to get better results.

David Read
Under normal circumstances how would that light up? Would you stretch? Yeah. The contact of stretching would activate the light?

Remington Phillips
There’s a lot of ways you could do it but what you’re describing is kind of what I did. What I actually did is I put a magnetic switch in one of the finger caps so you could actually control it by moving your fingers apart. It’s kind of neat. I’m looking at other ways I can redesign that.

David Read
How did they do it in the show? You’ve inspected some of the ones from the show, right?

Remington Phillips
Absolutely. I’ve actually got one of the show made ribbon devices in my shop and I’m using that one instead of my sculpts to rebuild this. What they did on the original prop is they used a radio controller, a lot of stuff was actually radio controlled. It wasn’t controlled by the actors, it was controlled by a stagehand who would be in charge of lighting up the prop or causing a sound effect to take place.

David Read
Sound effect during production?

Remington Phillips
Yeah, absolutely.

David Read
Really?

Remington Phillips
Yeah. Some props had built in sound.

David Read
I didn’t think some…onset? I’ve never sold a prop with a sound built into it. Interesting

Remington Phillips
We gotta find you those.

David Read
Absolutely. So the hand device is how you got into prop making?

Remington Phillips
Yes, This was kind of my first passion project. It’s always been something I’ve come back to even though I’ve designed dozens and dozens of other props and worked on a lot of projects. I continue to do that, we’ll take a look at a few of them. This one’s just special to me because like I said, it was the first one I did. It’s pretty popular and a lot of people love them. I’m always getting requests from…

David Read
If you’re a goa’uld then yeah, it makes sense.

Remington Phillips
A lot of goa’uld out there.

David Read
Absolutely, especially at the convention. I saw a replicator humanoid walking around somewhere. It’d be interesting for her to have one; start spitting out blocks.

Remington Phillips
Wouldn’t that be cool? We actually designed a silver ribbon device with a blue lightup crystal. We just kind of put it together for fun but the theme behind it was that it was the Ancients. They originally made the ribbon devices as some kind of building device that could change molecular structures and create things and then the goa’uld turned it into a weapon.

David Read
Somewhere, yeah. How far down the rabbit hole do you go with the technology, that was the question? Where did the goa’uld get it from? It was either Ancients or someone else for sure. The crystal technology has always been the same. Where’s your GDO?

Remington Phillips
GDO is behind stage and coming up.

David Read
Are we calling? Are they serving them to us? One piece at a time. Oh, look at this. The lovely Nicole. Give an applause to Nicole please, give a hand to Nicole, she’s the props assistant. That’s for sale tomorrow night, the auction, the ring?

Remington Phillips
Yes.

David Read
Can we leave these out here?

Nicole
Yeah.

David Read
Okay. Thank you. I want to play. Thank you. Over here. All right.

Remington Phillips
Both of these props are going to be in the Make A Wish charity auction. This one [GDO] does have electronics in it so it lights up. This a replica of the garage door opener that all the team members would wear. We didn’t always see it but it was always presumed to be on every team members sleeve under the jacket. This particular prop, the reason I got into this one was that I had an opportunity to purchase the original mold from MGM of this prop. I reverse engineered the prop from that mold in order to make it fully functional with electronics and all the original screws and keypads and things like that. It’s very accurate to what’s on screen and makes a fun display piece.

David Read
Does the spinning thing on the end spin?

Remington Phillips
Spinny thing does not spin. I might be potentially redesigning this as a 3d model in conjunction with a friend of mine.

David Read
Do you have batteries in there or does one of those ports charge it?

Remington Phillips
The way that this works is that the fake port at the end can be pulled out and it’s a USB port. You can charge it from any any cell phone charger.

David Read
So this is, may I see? So this is also for sale in the auction?

Remington Phillips
Yeah, this one will be in the auction.

David Read
If I don’t break it.

Remington Phillips
If David doesn’t break it. The electronics in this prop are actually electro luminescent sheeting so it’s actually paper that lights up. It’s kind of nifty.

David Read
It’s micro-USB if anyone’s was wanting to know. It’s not USB-C or that crappy older USB.

Remington Phillips
It’s the good USB.

David Read
I like USB-C, the jury’s out on that my friend Yeah.

Remington Phillips
The only thing you can’t do is actually punch in numbers and send an iris code.

David Read
There’s a depression or will that eventually break them too?

Remington Phillips
You can press the buttons but I’m just saying don’t rely on it if you’re going through the Stargate because they’re not going to open the door.

David Read
I’m curious as to the in-universe thought process behind it. Was it your opinion that the SGC would send a signal back saying that the Iris was open before they would proceed or they just blindly proceed?

Remington Phillips
I think you’d have to get some kind of two-way confirmation.

David Read
You’d have to because Daniel says, with Bra’tac coming through at one point “well he’s an ally and if we don’t open up he’s gonna [splat].”

Remington Phillips
We never heard of an SG team going splat.

David Read
Well, I hope not. It just stretched out really thinly in a black hole, but other than that. That is exceptionally cool. So this one is also going to be going up on the auction block?

Remington Phillips
The one’s in the auction block. If we get the Zat gun brought out then we can take a look at another prop that’ll be in the charity auction.

David Read
How many pieces are you auctioning off?

Remington Phillips
We’re auctioning off a few. Thank you.

David Read
Oh my goodness.

Remington Phillips
This is just your standard resin Zat.

David Read
Closed position.

Remington Phillips
This one, I owe all the credit for this prop to my buddy in France, Julian, of Atlante Props. He actually has one of the original Zat guns and took the time to make a mold of it, rework it, fix all the flaws. This stuff gets so beat up on set. By the time those original props leave, David can attest to this as he handled almost everything from the series. A lot of stuff didn’t really make it off the set in pristine condition. This Zat was actually completely reconditioned, remastered as we call it in Prop making. Now I actually have a mold for this prop as well as Julian so whether you’re, let’s say in United States or Canada or Europe, you can order a prop like this and not have to have it shipped halfway across the world.

David Read
You want to talk about the originals, how they were air charged?

Remington Phillips
Yeah.

David Read
Where the purple end is, there was a hole.

Remington Phillips
So the original Zat gun, probably even before they made the solid plastic ones or the solid resin ones, were pneumatic. They were air powered and they would have an air port at the bottom of the Zat and it would run up through a hose essentially and up the actor’s sleeve. When actuated, pneumatic air pressure would cause it to pop straight up. Very finicky technology but they used that same technology for the Zat guns and for the staff weapons. Actually in the movie, in the feature film, the staff weapons had some actual pyrotechnic charges in them.

David Read
Wow. Because I knew they blew smoke.

Remington Phillips
Yeah. Then for the series they just made them air powered.

David Read
By the end they were battery powered.

Remington Phillips
Exactly. By the end of the series MGM had paid to have the Zat guns and the staff weapons all electronic with micro servos. Tiny miniature robotics inside of these things and armatures that would allow them to open at a press of a button and close with the press of a button. Really, really advanced stuff. I’ve tinkered a lot with that.

David Read
What frustrated me about the Zat gun, aside from the story problems that they caused, was the Cobra head would strike but the visual effects would obscure it. You couldn’t see it do that and if you’re looking really closely, in some cases, you’ll see it stretch and come back but the visual effect was obscuring that effect so often that you just couldn’t see that magic happen.

Remington Phillips
Very true. I think part of the reason for that was that they were very finicky on set and they didn’t always work. Certain actors apparently would drop them regularly.

David Read
I can’t imagine which one would do that.

Remington Phillips
Props was constantly fixing these things. The gentleman who originally designed all this stuff, I’ve had a lot of great conversations with him. He’ll tell stories about how frustrating it was and it was basically like at the end of the shooting, they’d be handing him back the prop saying “here, fix this.”

David Read
The Wraith over the shoulder cannons? What would you call them? Wraigh blasters from Rising?

Remington Phillips
Yes.

David Read
They had a light on the end of it. Visual effects hated that light because they didn’t want the actors to, especially when the actors aren’t reacting to a release of the energy, they didn’t want the actors to have the ability to control when the weapon fired. They would have to often paint out the firing of the yellow, the bulb at the end of the Wraith blaster, so that they could shoot it in the edit room at the moments that it needed to be shot. A lot of times, what you see as movie magic, is them painting away stuff that you’re not supposed to know is there and if they they do their job right it looks like they’ve never even touched it.

Remington Phillips
It’s worth mentioning just how intricate and well designed these props were. As David said, small details like an LED light at the end of a weapon prop, or take the naquadah generators for example from SG-1 and Atlantis. I’ve had the opportunity to inspect that Prop and actually completely disassemble and reassemble that Prop. You’re talking about individual pieces that were all machined from aluminum. Probably something that if you wanted to actually make it yourself, conceivably MGM would have paid tens of thousands of dollars in R&D.

David Read
These props get better as we go along, trust me on this one. So what else do we have?

Remington Phillips
Well, the next two props are Atlantis props; a replicator pistol and a turtle brooch.

David Read
The Ancient shield generator? Ancient personal shield. Nicole, meet you at door number one.

Remington Phillips
So these two props are current R&D. These are production prototypes that we recently completed.

David Read
I have the metal one so this is like a freaky moment for me. Wow, this is great. So is this one gonna light?

Remington Phillips
Absolutely. This is just the first generation of prototype?

David Read
Does this come up, off, like the other one?

Remington Phillips
Well, it’s glued on.

David Read
I’ll leave it on.

Remington Phillips
So the current stage of a project like this is every part of the original Prop was molded and designed.

David Read
It was water cut aluminum. They used water to actually cut the metal.

Remington Phillips
If you don’t know a lot about manufacturing techniques, waterjet cutting of metal is extremely advanced and very effective. A prop like this, they could have done it a lot of different ways and they decided to make it actually out of a solid piece of aluminum and mill each of these pieces individually. Now, for someone like me and certainly the fan community, that could be quite an undertaking and probably…

David Read
To reverse engineer?

Remington Phillips
Well, it can be done. I’ve walked into machine shops who I’ve talked about various props with and they’re like, “Yeah, we could waterjet that but it’ll be $20,000.”

David Read
This is Atlantis we’re talking about so the Oversight Committee in Washington gave Atlantis all the money anyway.

Remington Phillips
Absolutely. Where a prop like this would go, as someone who’s replicating this, pardon the pun. The next thing that I’m doing are designing the electronics. I have the original electronics from this prop and I’ve been able to study what they did in order to originally light it up. I would aspire to light it up in a way that’s true to the original.

David Read
They did metal ones that had stunt ones. The rubber stamp ones are a fraction as cool as the metal ones are. These holes here are where magnets would go so it would literally lock into place and lowered here. Here’s, the obviously the trigger, but they would hide up a switch, a tiny switch here, that would make this light up and make the letters light up as well. It is simply one of the coolest pieces that I own, period. These were made for season three of Atlantis so they were well into production on Stargate and at that time they could afford things like water cutters and it showed in the production – for something that doesn’t really get seen on screen except for a couple of beats when the puddle jumper is knocking humanoid replicators over like bowling pins.

Remington Phillips
Yeah, sometimes you have to really respect how much work went into a simple prop that barely got any screen time. Again, we’re talking about something that was designed on a computer and eventually fed into machines and manufactured. They didn’t have to make something this advanced, they could have just gone to Toys R Us, grabbed a cheap toy gun and…

David Read
Like they did with Wormhole X-Treme!

Remington Phillips
Yeah. Another little prop that is in production. This is another prototype. This is the Ancient personal shield or turtle brooch.

David Read
According to David Hewlett,

Remington Phillips
According to David Hewlett. David, you’re familiar with this prop.

David Read
I am. Did I give you mine?

Remington Phillips
You did?

David Read
Do you still have mine?

Remington Phillips
I do.

David Read
I forgot. I have no idea what the hell of mine he has except for the Atlantis logo and maybe like a Wraith gun or something. You better give them back.

Remington Phillips
I should probably not have mentioned that I still have that.

David Read
This opens up in the middle and six little watch batteries make this thing glow like a radioactive reptile.

Remington Phillips
The original prop, like David says, run on a whole bunch of watch batteries. What we’re doing, at SG1 Props, is putting a lithium ion battery in here. We’ll be able to put as many LEDs in here as we need to make this thing shine and it’ll just be rechargeable, just like the GDO, by plugging it into USB.

David Read
There’s several different versions of it. The one I own has a button that’s the size of the head of a pin. It’s right here, front and center. You’d never even notice it, it’s just painted gray. As they applied it, they had a metal piece underneath and a magnet here, they could just press and press to their chest at the same time and have it stay on. There was a manual release one that could release the magnet from behind David as he suddenly realized that he was about to go into danger and didn’t want to continue wearing it anymore at the end of Hide and Seek. Then they had the ones that were used for Richard Kind. Man. Man, it’s the most un-Ancienty prop though. It in itself is cool but if you look at the production artwork for it, it’s not green, it’s blue. I don’t understand what anyone would have thought with green, I guess maybe puddle jumper, maybe. But it’s very un-Ancienty.

Remington Phillips
It definitely doesn’t fit in with the rest of the set but people seem to love it. It had a great storyline, it was in memorable episodes. I always thought it’d be fun to actually design the replica so that it truly did switch on using a magnetic switch as soon as you put it up to your shirt and you’ve got a pin or something hidden behind it.

David Read
Do you have any other pieces to share?

Remington Phillips
I do have other pieces. Whatever else is on the tray I’d say.

David Read
Except for my stuff Nicole. I think you have a certain SGU item?

Remington Phillips
Leave the SGU item.

David Read
Oh, not yet. Okay. Ah.

Remington Phillips
Simple prop.

David Read
I love the box. I want one, I want me one of them. [Ancient communication stone] Wow! I have an original. I did not five finger discount these or any of the stuff that I have. Notice I’m saying “I have a lot.” No, “I bought.” I had no money after I left Propworx. I can’t tell the difference between where my original ends and yours begins. I can’t tell anymore; you’ve gone so frickin accurate that it’s just mind blowing, the craftsmanship

Remington Phillips
Part of what goes into making that actually happen is the fact that for a prop like this you could spend hours trying to match the original paint and characteristics that they used on the series. Ultimately what I had to do for this particular prop and subsequently a lot of my other projects, is actually designed my own paints. I’m actually mixing and creating my own paints in order to create things like this. This is actually automotive paint that I’m actually mixing in the shop in order to spray on these props. I tried dozens of different over the shelf products and no paints, no paints came close.

David Read
I think the automotive paint would be the closest.

Remington Phillips
That was where it was at. It was in various automotive pigments that are sold for high end automobile paint jobs and that’s what these are painted with. Very fancy stuff just in a nice display box.

David Read
Let me call Universe. No, Eli’s not on the other end. Okay. He must be in the hotel somewhere. I’m still David but am I David Read? I could be David Blue. All right. These are some of my favorites.

Remington Phillips
This one will be available in the Gatecon auction so you’ll have the opportunity to go over to the sales room.

David Read
I’ll see you there.

Remington Phillips
I’ve seen some people have already put their mark down on this prop. You’ll have the opportunity to get into a bidding war if you want.

David Read
Is there a certain floating thing left or do you have other things?

Remington Phillips
I think there is a certain floating thing.

David Read
Wow, check this out. So you got your hands on the original molds for this guy. It’s, I believe three layers, of ball.

Remington Phillips
This one is two layers.

David Read
This one is two layers.

Remington Phillips
Technically, it’s four pieces, four separate pieces.

David Read
One, two, and then on the inside, three, four.

Remington Phillips
This right here would probably be the most tricky prop to make resin castings of. Like David said, it’s got four separate pieces. It’s a hemisphere so you got two different segments here that are attached. There’s the inner core of the kino prop and then there’s the outer shell. The way that these were made on the series is that it’s not a hollow plastic ball with something else inside of it. It’s actually clear resin with your encapsulated prop inside of it which is tricky. I respect all of the makers out there who do resin encapsulation as a profession because it’s very tricky to get it right.

David Read
The props house for Universe, Propworx did not get the Universe stuff. It was very sad. I don’t think Propworx was continuing at that point anyway, but there was another Props house that got all of the SGU stuff. I bought a few pieces from them and they weren’t labeled, in my personal opinion, labeled as well. I just wish they had a better Stargate fan on site for that. But the Kinos, I’ve wanted one so bad. The originals went for, because there were three or four, Heroes, and I think went for like two grand apiece. Then the kino sled came along and someone got the bright idea to grab that thing, which I think he paid like $400 or $500 for, flipped the thing over and popped all the half hemispheres off the bottom, attached them together and sold them each for a buttload of money. That is one of the ones that I own. I own two hemispheres of the bottom of the kino sled. I don’t know what happened to the top of it. On one hand I’m like, “You jerk, don’t damage a screen used prop like that.” On the other hand, this is a screen used element so…

Remington Phillips
Well in that respect that particular prop was made up of lots of little props that all stood up on their own. This is just a really neat piece and I think, from Universe, it’s probably one of the top two props from that series outside of the long range communication station that would go along with the stones.

David Read
Is my piece left back there?

Remington Phillips
You’ve got your piece left on the table.

David Read
I do want to bring my piece out that I brought. Nicole, it’s a little guy that makes a chittering sound when it’s upset. That sounds about right. Thank you. Thank you. {holds a replicator]

Remington Phillips
Look at that.

David Read
Tell me that you cannot hear an image or the music that goes with him. You’re all thinking of it right now. Before I move on to this, James Robbins, what an incredible designer. We were supposed to have him this weekend but he’s working on a new project. So many of these guys are as busy as they ever have been. This is a 3d print from 3dtech.pro, they are one of the partners for Dial the Gate. Has anyone seen the spider shaped replicator in the other room? There’s a full size version, a replicator, in one of the other rooms that someone’s been taking photos. I don’t think it’s up for sale. If 3dtech.pro didn’t release that one, they got it from someone who got his files because it’s the exact same thing. This is a one half scale version B replicator that was introduced in Enemies in season five. It is up for sale in the live auction tomorrow night. The feats that I had to go through to get this thing here, crossing an entire continent in my hand, for like three days. I felt like Elaine with the Three Tenors poster in Seinfeld, trying not to get it damaged. We got it here and hopefully it’ll go to a nice home and I don’t know, maybe terrorize someone’s grandkids.

Remington Phillips
Keep it away from sensitive electronics.

David Read
And by no means let it get near another one because that’s how you get more replicators.

Remington Phillips
Don’t feed it or get it wet after midnight night, right? I got that backwards.

David Read
What’s backwards?

Remington Phillips
You don’t want to feed it after midnight.

David Read
You mean your analogy, no, you’re good. You’re good. You have something that I have been looking forward to seeing, that David Hewlett requested a while ago, and this is actually a fulfillment for him, I’m guessing. Unless you pulled a horrible joke on me and said “Oh, David, no. We never had that, we were just kidding.”

Remington Phillips
There could be something, I don’t know. Nicole will have to see if there’s anything left behind. Paperbag.

David Read
Someone’s been shopping shopping at Rexall.

Remington Phillips
I don’t know what you can buy at Rexall these days?

David Read
Certainly not like a vacuum energy device.

Remington Phillips
Let’s see what we found at Rexall. So right here we have your new energy source of the future [ZPM].

David Read
Let’s connect it to Vancouver, give the people free power. Na, I don’t want to our solar system blown up?

Remington Phillips
Yeah, I was gonna say that could be dangerous. Rodney with this technology is not a good mix.

David Read
Wow. My problem with the fan ones that have been released is that they are not properly to scale. Someone has eyeballed them and has made a prop out of them, out of what they’ve seen online and it’s not proportioned. It looks great. I sold the others and I’m in a rare position, myself, to be like, “it’s great but it’s not right.” To have the candy glass kind of, I guess, smoke kind of texture. They’re basically like a collection of Jolly Ranchers, it really is that kind of a look. The circuitry is so hard to achieve because it has a certain black, gooey Armus type TNG look in and of itself and it’s just one of the coolest. It was hard to sell them. I wanted to really set one aside for myself and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I was like “every one of them needs to go to fans.” Dude, this has been well worth the wait. Give him a hand. What craftsmanship. My gosh.

Remington Phillips
Thanks David. This particular prop, the design process for replicating it is pretty intense. To start with I do have one of the original props that David sold, that he wanted to keep, but he sold. So I do have one of those original props and I was able to use that original prop to make a direct copy. Not only is it the right proportions, as David pointed out a lot of the replicas have not been, but every crystal is the same on this prop. Every line is the same as the original because it’s a direct copy of the original.

David Read
So when you go into production you’re going to be the one that people are going to want to go to if they want an authentic one?

Remington Phillips
For authenticity, absolutely. I love the hobby, I love my fellow makers. Everybody who wants to 3d print and design something, I will always be the one cheering you on. But my thing is just getting intense screen accuracy, that’s my passion. This particular prop, like I said, it was directly molded off the original. We spent probably about 50 to 60 hours meticulously looking at every single crystal, comparing it to screenshots from the show, making sure that any damage that was incurred during production we fix it. Cleaned up perfectly.

David Read
I can’t even tell where the switch is. If you want to know, the switch on the heroes was here between the neck and the lid. Just a really tiny black piece. Well done, sir.

Remington Phillips
Thank you. I extend credit for this project beyond myself to my colleagues and friends. Nicole West who has been bringing out props and Julian of Atlante Props who have both collaborated with me on this project in order to make it happen. We’ve been working on this for over a year now.

David Read
And David Hewlett is gonna get one of the first ones.

Remington Phillips
David Hewlett is going to get one of the first ones.

David Read
Martin McLean, where are you brother? Come on up here. Bring your goodies. Where are you all the way back there? No, him, not you [Nicole]. Oh, no, not you. I’ll take a hug though. Thank you. Hello, Martin McLean. Hello, sir. Martin is responsible for a number of the items that are on the Dial the Gate set. He goes, like all in, with the clamshell cases. What do you got here?

Martin McClean
Two things both for the charity auction tonight. The first one is Stargate, they’re both Stargate Atlantis. They’re both 3d printed props that I designed and built myself based on as close as accuracy as I could find to do that. They both have working electronics in them as well. The first one is the Atlantean hand scanner. I think if David turns it on you’ll see there’s a working display. That’s right, David has one as well. I have a philosophy now that whatever I make, I just make another one for David. I’m currently putting his naquadah generator together at the moment which he’ll be very happy about, I think. When you insert this in this proximity base you can see the Ancient lighting light up. The idea being that if you obviously possess the gene then you trigger it off. [inaudible] No, no, not on this one. Slight modification. So that one’s available tonight for anyone who would like to auction that and hopefully we can raise some money for charity there.

David Read
He has technical schematics. He has schematics that he has worked through.

Martin McClean
Yes, there’s some of those in there. There’s lots of different instructions if you’re looking on how to use it. There’s a couple of different modes in that scanner. The first one is just the normal scan mode and the second button activates the Wraith detection mode. There a a Wraith scenario in there, you’ll see all the different lights. [inaudible] Yes, so after a while it starts to sort of…

Remington Phillips
How cool are all the details on this box? “Ancient gene required.”

Martin McClean
It has taken a lot of time.

Remington Phillips
Protected equipment. Atlantis asset tag. I mean, this is what you would imagine they carried the prop in on the show.

Martin McClean
This one is the motion control light up Atlantis door control. I designed this one, this is the button on the back there, if we just switch that on just there. It’ll take a few seconds. The electronics will detect the light in the room and then eventually it will adjust and you can see the lights come on there. There’s a magnetic attachment there, you can pull the door off and put it on the real one. [inaudible] Yes, yes. I originally made it full scale but it’s so big on your wall, they’re huge. It became sort of primitive to put on…

Remington Phillips
I remember when you were designing your full scale one and I was so impressed and this one, just being something that could easily be displayed, is beautiful.

Martin McClean
[inaudible] No, the crystals don’t come out, the crystals don’t come out. The original one I designed had a series of different crystals you could put in and you could get different lighting effects but it just became too problematic for people to keep on doing it all the time so I just changed the design round. [inaudible] Yes, just clips on.

David Read
Have you met before?

Martin McClean
No.

Remington Phillips
This is out first time.

Martin McClean
Remington, it’s a pleasure. How are you?

Remington Phillips
I’m excited to meet you in person, finally.

Martin McClean
Likewise, I love your work. There’s also an Atlantis plaque in there as well for anyone and there’s some blueprints and instructions and things like that as well. There’s lot of things in there.

David Read
For all the work that you have done, that you’ve continued to do. He just thinks through this whole thing and gives instructions for all of it. The Atlantis blueprints are some of my favorites and I think Gateworld has them?

Martin McClean
Yeah, Darren put those online as well. You can download all the different sizes for free. Just go to Gateworld and search for Atlantis poster and you’ll find it. It’s available in different sizes made for your iPads and PCs and Mac’s and things like that so you can just download and use those as you wish.

David Read
Well, thank you for coming up and thank you for sharing. Did you make this as well?

Martin McClean
Yes. So this is just a simple magnetic plaque that you can put on your fridge or anywhere that you want it to be. It’s just a 3d rendered version. It might not work on that.

David Read
This has been such a pleasure. Thank you, sir. I’ll keep these, you may go. It’s good. Guys, I hope you’ve had a wonderful first day of Gatecon and continue to enjoy the rest of the convention. Thank you so much for being with us this evening. Big applause to these guys here. Just artists, absolute artists. We’re gonna go ahead and wrap up the show so that they can convert this whole space into a nice, big eatery. Enjoy the rest of Gatecon. Thank you again Remington, thank you Martin. My name is David Read, we’ll see you on the other side.