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Inspired by Fuzzual I am going to build out an entire room to be Star Wars inspired, although the room happens to be my garage. Being my garage, it still needs to be functional, so it won't be wholly immersive, but wherever I can, I'm going to try to incorporate Star Wars-themed ideas.
This is going to be a slow burn over a few months most likely, so forgive me if updates roll in slowly.
First, some concept art, I modeled the garage in google sketchup (it's a great tool, its free, browser based, and I taught myself to use it via youtube tutorials. Highly recommend!):
From the outside looking in:
Standing in the doorway looking out towards the driveway:
Other side:
So, I didn't model all the Star Wars greeblies in full, this was more to get the major items laid out so I could understand how much paint, material, etc I would need. For function, the black stripes you see along the walls are actually 3/4" French Cleats, around the entire garage. This way I can easily make shelves, tool holders, ladder rack, bike racks, etc. anywhere I want. I'm going to paint them an extremely high-gloss black. This is probably a good point to start listing out the major components:
May the force be with me...
Inspired by Fuzzual I am going to build out an entire room to be Star Wars inspired, although the room happens to be my garage. Being my garage, it still needs to be functional, so it won't be wholly immersive, but wherever I can, I'm going to try to incorporate Star Wars-themed ideas.
This is going to be a slow burn over a few months most likely, so forgive me if updates roll in slowly.
First, some concept art, I modeled the garage in google sketchup (it's a great tool, its free, browser based, and I taught myself to use it via youtube tutorials. Highly recommend!):
From the outside looking in:
Standing in the doorway looking out towards the driveway:
Other side:
So, I didn't model all the Star Wars greeblies in full, this was more to get the major items laid out so I could understand how much paint, material, etc I would need. For function, the black stripes you see along the walls are actually 3/4" French Cleats, around the entire garage. This way I can easily make shelves, tool holders, ladder rack, bike racks, etc. anywhere I want. I'm going to paint them an extremely high-gloss black. This is probably a good point to start listing out the major components:
- Black, high-gloss French Cleats around entire garage
- 3/4" Plywood
- Behr Black High-Gloss Paint
- Spray Max 2K High Gloss Glamour Clear Coat
- The very bottom one, which starts about 24" off the ground, won't be a cleat, but will be a row of greebled control panels lit with LED's. I'm 50/50 on buying a Glowforge right now and if so, will likely buy the digital files from Fuzzual's The Smugglers Room STL shop
- The bottom 24" of the walls I originally was going to do a Vinyl Diamond Plate, but I don't think there's diamond plate in Star Wars, so now I'm thinking about doing Death Star panel walls. Going to need to figure out how to design them so they look right with only about 24" in height.
- I'm building at least 6 shelves, 3 for each wall, and the supports will be cutout with LED-lit acrylic to give it a Star Wars feel. They will also be painted high-gloss black.
- Rubbermaid 72" Black Shelves
- Behr Black High-Gloss Paint
- Spray Max 2K High Gloss Glamour Clear Coat
- Shelf Brackets
- LED's - TBD
- White-tinted Acrylic
- Around the top corners of the walls and ceiling I'm going to do LED lighting with these panels at a 45º angle out of MDF and acrylic:
- The main door I'm going to greeble to look Star Wars-y, replace the handle & lock. Haven't decided on a pattern yet, I will probably just glue thin MDF panels to it. However, the surround of the door will also have that same small LED pattern that I showed above going around the ceiling, on the inside of the doorframe, and then on the front of the door frame this:
- I'll also probably build out the step to have lights on the front of it too in a similar pattern.
- Major Launch Bay Arch around the Garage opening, out of MDF, Aluminum 8020 channels for strength, acrylic and LED lights.
- Greeblied hanging rack for all my cordless battery chargers (design TBD).
- Greeblied Control panel near door that will be power distribution to the LED lights around the corners of the ceiling along with possibly the battery chargers or other things. Will have several of these through the garage near power outlets with Wire loom running the lines to each device/thing.
- Turn my Ridgid Shop Vac into a Droid.
- Mount a Projector underneath my Garage Door Opener and turn the two of them into some sort of floating droid. The projector will broadcast a starfield/space scene onto the Garage Door when shut, which I will paint with Projector Screen Paint
- Variety of cabinets and other workbenches that are greebled, as this is also my workshop. Things like rolling table saw, miter saw, router table, drill press, storage cabinets.
- There's a Window in the room that I am going to panel over, probably with Death Star White Acrylic Wall panel. Layout not yet done.
- On the ceiling, I'm going to do a mix of lighting:
- The big grey rectangle is the open garage door placeholder in the model.
- The red panels actually will be a frame of wood, painted black, about 2-3" deep. The bottom of it will be black tinted acrylic. Inside will be red (or more likely, coloring changing LED's), not too bright. Underneath the black tinted acrylic will be these egg-crate style black grids.
- The white panels will be a frame of wood, painted black, about 6" deep, to create different depths on the ceiling. They will be a mix of plain white acrylic with no back lighting (the little panels), and the big panels are these 1'x4' LED panel lights.
- Along the back wall, I'm again taking a page out of Fuzzual playbook and making some greebled drop lighting out of these drains.
- There's some other miscellaneous hangers and things I will make to go on the cleats that I haven't figured out yet, but will create as needed for real garage stuff.
- The floor will be Vinyl Garage tiling
May the force be with me...
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