Oh yeah, that's sweet. Well done sir. You kept it simple and sleek. How about some LED strip lighting incorporated somewhere. Perhaps around the grill or mounted under the desk? Also, classy choice to go with the nice varnished wood top. I haven't seen the videos yet. What colour of grey paint did you use?
Thank you so much for your encouragement. There will be more updates over the next few weeks!
Just last night I ordered some strip light for the cabinet underneath, so that should look good I think.
It'll hopefully achieve the look like below under the consoles:
The wood is recycled from a fitness centre that closed down, and as such it came already stained and varnished, and is thankfully fairly close to the original colour from the show, like below:
The paint is from Jotun and is called Jazz Grey (
JAZZ GREY). It also is a close match for the original colour, and even though it's not exact I really like it. In any case, how you view the colour of the original sets depends largly on the quality of your TV of PC screen, and I sometimes think that this is more important because oftentimes the colours chosen for the sets are chosen to create an effect on the screen which will usually be a bit different, so on that basis I think I've chosen the perfect colour!
This week I'll be building a cabinet that will be located on the left of the workstation, about the height of the one shown behind Kirk in the photo above, but while that just contains a small safe, mine will contain doors and shelving to make it practical. You will get an idea of what I mean by one of my concept drawings below:
I'll be buildng a cabinet around my monitor, and extending over the side cabinet on the left to contain a smaller monitor mounted on it's side vertically. I'm undecided about the shelf shown on the right hand side of the monitor, if I do include it then it will display my small collection of Star Trek TOS models and props. I hope to add either a desk viewer or a desktop 'computer' in TOS style. I really want something that I can place the start and reset buttons for the PC in, as well as switches for other things.
Lots of things to do yet!
Thanks again for your encouragement, and I hope you continue enjoy this project build
