BEHIND-THE-SCENES : [CARETAKER] VISUAL EFFECTS
THE KAZON BATTLE CRUISER
| Dan Curry: Chakotay takes his small ship and takes it into the mother ship of the Kazon. The Kazon mother ship was only 18 inches long. One of the tricks with shooting miniatures is that none of them is ever in true scale with one another so we have to do a lot of math to calculate. Ok, we do one shot with one six foot diameter model and then this eighteen inch one is supposed to be bigger than that one - how do we have to adjust the camera move so we could only get so close to the eighteen inch model before it wouldn't hold up, so we made a big wall matching details on the small model to finish that shot after the cutaway to Chakotay. |  Dan Curry, in December 1994, explains the filming of the Kazon ship model |
setting up for motion control photography of the Kazon ship model
this is the closest they film when zooming in on the ship model;
further close-ups will be of a specially built ship section
the ship model is filmed while moving....
....and as it moves further along the track
See also The Windshield of the Maquis Raider for pictures of the blue-screen shots and subsequent compositing of the shots of Chakotay moving in close upon the Kazon ship and his ship's windshield being blown in on impact.
Dan Curry: Among the challenges we had the shot of the various Kazon ships during the final battle when the Caretaker space station was exploding. One of the destroyed Kazon ships was made out of corrugated cardboard stacked up in decks, so we [i.e. Dan Curry working with Image G] did one motion control move with the actual ship and then we had a matching one made out of cardboard that was all crumpled up so that after the explosion took place and we saw fire coming out of, then we shifted to the shifted to the cardboard one that actually crashed into the station at the end that blew up. One of the tricks that we used was, I had always found making miniature fire difficult, and we used a mixture of liquid nitrogen and CO2 vapours blown out of a tear in a cardboard box painted black, and that was the fire element when ships would have leaking fires or were crashing about.
See also BEHIND-THE-SCENES: Liquid Nitrogen.
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See also Pop-up Slideshow: 20 screenshots: Crash of the Kazon ship.
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