1/12 X-wing Build

I wanted to say hi to all and sorry for the being away for a while. The area I was using for building went away. We had a 20x30 deck that we don't use that often. So I talked with my wife about making that a man cave/media room in exchange for moving all my stuff out of her way. She finally agreed. So I started on the journey of designing my man cave. I will post some pictures and a new post showing progress. I have spent all my free time and money making this media room.
 
I am not sure If I should post this here or start a new post. I wanted to share some of my progress and dreams with others. Like my post earlier tis is a long term dream of mine as I am sure with most men out there is to have there own man cave. After my wife gave me the ok. to turn our 20x30 deck into a man cave I started doing a lot of research and looking at other ideas. There are some great builds out there. I came across many designs I loved, but I had to look at what I could afford to do and my skill set as to what I could build. I took 3 major designs and came up with my own design. I started with making some drawings of what I hopped my final would look like. I divided the room into three sections. Main hallway that leads fro main house to room. Room is then divided into two sections small L shaped and main viewing area. The first set of drawing deal with small L shaped room.

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Next couple are pictures of ceiling


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I don't get it??

3 years ago you started scratch building an X Wing 1/12 scale and now you're building a man cave........??

You started out very well......I praise your intention and work thus far.
I wish you luck with your X Wing/Cave building something......whatever you decide to build.......:confused

Here's my 1/18 scale X Wing converted toy into open wings....maybe some inspiration...I tossed out most of the toy and scratch built everything else.

Good luck with your building!!.....:D
 

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Very awesome build. I lost my work area. So yes I have been building a Star Wars theater room with a model room built in to further work on my projects. So its not that I didn't want to work on my projects, it's just I didn't have any place to set up and work on it.
 
I started this project about 3 yrs ago when I stopped working on my x-wing. I had the chance to convert a 20x30 deck into a Media Room. I choose the Star Wars décor. I wanted to share my passion and build with others. My Dad helped me with the framing process. Framing is not my skill set. Her are a few pictures of the early process.

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I will upload some more pictures of progress soon. Thanks and God Bless.
 
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Here are a few pictures after the roof was put on.

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Here I have taken the two windows out and made pocket windows on the other side.
I also took out my sons two windows and put a big pocket window on the other side. Started putting inner walls up.

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Here putting closet in at the end of hallway.

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Here I am starting on the pocket doors in hallway. The little room to the side is my new model room.

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Here there is more farming

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Here are some more progress pictures. I'm the second picture you can see where I added a raised floor.

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Here I am hanging sheetrock. My favorite thing to do. LOL

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These next group of pictures are of the pocket door I had to build form scratch. The frames were made out of 1x6. Then I took a 6 panel door and split it in half to make doors facing the hallway.

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Here is the other side of the pocket doors facing media room. I started working on the framing of the doors facing media room.

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In the next few pictures I started skinning the frame and adding detail to the doors.

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These next few pictures show construction of middle frame work and panel work. There is fake window in the middle of one wall.




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Here I started panel boards top and bottom.



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Some more updates. Started working on the ceiling panel work.



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These next few set of pictures, I started working on placing and testing led lighting.

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Looks awesome. I think I remember coming across your build when I was looking at reference material and build to get ideas. Thanks and have a blessed day.
 
A few more updates. Started adding detail to upper part of wall.




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Here getting the wall ready for paint.


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Started adding some paint to see how it will work.

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Here I started putting lights on bottom to give it more of a Star Wars look. The door frame I painted a black metallic steel. Blue glow wire in place. The black inserts is carbon fiber vinyl.

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