Hi Gang,
FINALLY!!!! Enjoy this latest round of updates!
I laser cut new greeblies for the capstone panel
The plan is to insert the yellow and white panel lights into the centers of the new greeblies
I laser cut a new face for the corridor maint console
I was NOT liking this version at all
UGH... Back to designing something else!
Terrible!
I have a new idea cooking...
One of the greeblies for the panel that did actually turn out
Needs to be primed and painted silver
This was a little fun side thing I really wanted to do! I found this old vintage office chair base on Ebay and thought...
If I cut a piece of 3/4" ply
Drill some holes for mounting
Paint it black
Screw into the bottom of the 3rd Nav Chair
HEY HEY! I've got a cool temp office chair!
It was then back to the droid sockets
Top and bottom edge pieces
Putting everything together
I then cut the main face plate for the lower panel
The interior side has a guide for the new droid socket boxes to align
Both boxes primed
The holes on the side pieces are for a little surprise!
Test fit
I then cut a new backer with holes for the LEDs and the socket cup
One cup taped to the back to see how it looks
I can finally see it coming ogether
More primer added to the cup
And more primer
I then laser cut the second socket cup
Adhered together and waiting for sanding and primer
Primed face plate
I then laser cut these 1/16 styrene details
Painting the sockets themselves
Laser cut the second set
Laser cut the socket "input"
Dry fit
One for each box
First input
Second and more complex input
Back to the styrene details... I cut these strips to fit the interior sides of the socket boxes
I adhered the styrene sides in place and then painted the boxes a granite color
After drying I dry fit the other styrene pieces
These styrene pieces will be painted white
After a first coat of flat white
I love how the white pops against the granite color
YUCK! Not sure what happened to those edges while laser cutting - redo!
With the magnifying boxes dry fit in place
I'm DEF going to add a detail to the interior of the boxes
Another dry fit
Primed the input(s)
Lots of sanding and filler needed
Primer - and I added an extra detail to the socket cup
DEF need to add some filler!
More dry/test fitting
Painted a few of the socket parts
Tying it all together
LOVE IT!
And this is where we are!
More to follow so please stay tuned!
Happy Halloween!