You should see if you could do a 360 degree photo of the room when your done, it would be epic!Thanks Yeats, its starting to feel like i am getting close to the finish line . . . maybe
You should see if you could do a 360 degree photo of the room when your done, it would be epic!Thanks Yeats, its starting to feel like i am getting close to the finish line . . . maybe
You should see if you could do a 360 degree photo of the room when your done, it would be epic!
I love the simplicity and ordinariness of your starting materials and how through careful and talented treatment you make them feel so much like the movies I love.
Bit late to the party, but WOW.
Your attention to detail is blowing my mind. Might have to attempt this in my garage. I wonder what random greeblies I can find here in NZ?
Now to get The Other Half on board...
Continue, good sir.
Impressive.............most impressive..............I'm still going to steal your idea for the HIC display, gotta have that in my Death Star room!
What an inspiring build! I don't think I've ever read through an entire long thread with as much enthusiasm as I did with yours- seriously impressive stuff, man.
One practical question: what were your best sources of greeblies? I'm starting to collect some for my own future projects, but it's slow going. Everything looks like a greeblie wherever I go now, but for something large scale, like what you did, it must take heaps and heaps of the things.
as far as the greeblies, I really just collected junk for years, and I do mean years! I work in the AV industry and I would take every bit of old electronics home and disassemble them. One of the big sources is the plumbing section of Hime Depot and Lowes. I'm pretty sure I have more toilet flanges in my basement than are in the entire neighborhood. I've saved every piece of plastic, scrap from packaging, and every lid I came across.
it also pays to have powerful friends. @SofaKing was a HUGE help for some of the more unique pieces.
bottom line my friend, is just resource where ever you go, and I pray you have a significant other who is like my wife . . . And let's you store junk in bins all over the house!
Thanks for the tips! I actually just stopped by the local computer repair place to see if they had any scrap I could salvage, and after muttering the magic words, "I am building a Star Wars Droid", they took me over to a big pile of free junk. Even offered me a bigger box when I filled my first one:
https://flic.kr/p/JQ2yY4
So now on to my first Gonk Droid as practice for some bigger builds, hopefully!
Yes, no one has more toilet flanges than you. Maybe there is a way to disguise those a bit. Such as grinding off the manufacturer wording on them. Or use a Dremel to cut some notches or other features into them so they don't look exactly like a toilet flange. On my greeblies, I like to glue additional small pieces to them, or grind away parts of them to make them look unlike what they originally were.
That being said, I still can't figure out how to disguise this door knob or this white motion sensor box.
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What do door knobs look like in Star Wars?