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07-02-2021, 12:47 PM | #31 |
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Thank you! Two more levels to go and hopefully it'll look even more like it's suppose to.
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07-02-2021, 01:00 PM | #32 |
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Thanks for checking back in! Yeah, I'm happy with the lights for now. What pics I'd posted so far is what I'd been taking since around early February to mid June. I'm going to try to update each time I get a section or so done from here on out.
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07-02-2021, 01:10 PM | #33 |
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This is awesome!
I love that you are making this out of wood. That roll-up door is one of the coolest diorama customs I've ever seen. It does break my heart that you sacrificed a good wood clap to make a custom elevator, but hey, maybe you own a bunch of them! LOL! Can't wait to see more pics! Jason
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07-02-2021, 01:21 PM | #34 |
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Thanks! The pics aren't the best and I've probably skipped some things along the way, but I'd hoped the presentation of the sometimes mundane process may have interesting to some folks. Glad you enjoyed it!
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07-02-2021, 01:26 PM | #35 |
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Hope I haven't missed responding to anyone. For some reason, I couldn't get the multiquote feature to work. Anyway, more to come soon!
Have a safe 4th everyone!
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10-02-2021, 06:55 AM | #36 |
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I'm way behind on updates for this, but there has been quite a bit of progress made since the last one. Let's just say there are parts of this that can touch the ceiling of the shop now. I'll hopefully wade through all the progress pics and get more posted on here soon.
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10-03-2021, 05:44 AM | #37 |
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Awesome, well its certainly a beast thats for sure, I can’t imagine how many headache’s this thing has caused you, certainly looking forward to the end product! ;)
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10-04-2021, 10:37 AM | #38 |
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Apologies for the delay. The following progress was mostly what was completed in July.
I started this time on the middle 2nd level section floor continuing the same angle in the front that the lower middle level has. The opening for the lower level stairs was also cut out. The sides and front corner supports were next, followed by cutting the door openings for the upcoming 3rd level wings. Somehow I goofed up and cut the wrong lines for a door opening on one of the side walls. I didn't really need to waste material cutting out another whole wall, so I just glued back in some pieces and left it to dry. It doesn't look pretty now, but is sturdy and worked well enough. Since most of these walls will be covered with sheet styrene later on, this area will never be seen when completely finished. After that mishap, I attached the walls to the front corner braces and the floor, then put on the angled front piece. With three walls and a floor together, I stopped to address a possible problem area along the front wall bottom. Ripping down a piece of 2x4 into the correct angle, I created a knee wall to avoid having a small awkward place that would be hard to reach into to clean or get small accessories out of. I left it unattached for now as I'll be revisiting this area later on. Moving on, I cut and attached some square dowel to use as the rear supports for the ceiling. After a test fit, things were looking good, but I still had some more things to figure out first. This middle level would contain the last major stairway needed to access the top level. I was running out of the same thickness of plywood I'd used for stairs in the lower level, so I dug out what I could find and cut it all up. Some pieces had voids that will need to be filled later, but luckily I had just enough to work with. Due to space limits and just to mix things up, I thought I'd try something different by making a spiral staircase. This was actually pretty easy to do. Basically a hole drilled through a corner of all the steps where a rod would go, then just twisting the steps evenly around the rod. The steps were plenty wide enough to allow traffic both ways, but I did mess around with the shape of the steps just to provide more head room for any taller figures. Cutting the steps down from rectangles to more of a triangular shape helped gain the needed head room. Back to the ceiling where a hole for the spiral staircase was now needed. The best place to conserve usable space was near the wall. After drawing it off, cutting it out and a couple of test fits later, I still had to make a few more adjustments for the sake of head room. This is the part where I began to waste way more time than I should have. Being fairly tall myself, I've knocked my head off more than a few times before. In fact, the old back door to my shop is kind of low, so it has this small reminder nailed to it to help prevent more aggravating head trauma. So even though this is for toys, I probably became a little bit too obsessed over the headroom for the stairway, cutting and chiseling out the underside of the ceiling to gain more until it was good. I left the spiral staircase unattached and determined the placement for the lighting and that was about it for this section for now. There are some plans for how this space is to be used, but I'll come back to that later. With this new middle section roughed out, it was placed on top of the bottom level and a few more pics taken to show the new upward progression of the HQ. Third level wing time. This one wing side I started with still doesn't haven't a definite purpose yet. It will be used for one of a few purposes I have in mind that I'll determine once I have the last two 4th floor wings built. The sides of this level coincidently has more of a Tennessee shape to it that juts back out near the top. Nothing too exciting with this level yet, just the basics. Doorways were cut. The floor, front corner and rear supports were all cut and then glued and nailed together. The front was later added and the sliding door walls built and installed then finished off with the ceiling Of course the same process and steps went into the opposite wing. A little wider doorway was cut out on this one. Since this was pretty much the same as the opposite side(other than the wider doorway), I didn't take as many pics. However, I did take a few of some other things I hadn't really shown before like the sliding door track\threshold. Some type of tracks were needed on the bottom for the sliding doors to ride on and keep them in line. I had these a lot of these hardwood slats from an old louvered closet door that were pretty flat and straight, so I cut a shallow groove down each a little wider than the thickness of the door. Since I had a bunch of these ready with grooves cut, I've just been trimming down one as needed to fit each sliding door. They serve the purpose, but before it's all over with, I'll probably be replacing all of these with some aluminum flat bar using these wooden ones as templates. Another little something not shown before is this little jig I've been using for the lighting placements. Nothing really special, but it does help to quickly determine where the holes for the lights mounting screws need to be so I can add them later. Well, that's all for now. Here's a few shots of the new 3rd levels and middle 2nd level added to the rest. Hopefully I'll get the next updates out a lot sooner than this one. As of this post, I'm wrapping up the final level that houses the large cannon(which has probably been the most fun part to do so far). Until next time!
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10-05-2021, 02:02 AM | #39 |
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Dayum!
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10-05-2021, 10:12 AM | #40 |
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Wow! Impressive skills you have Sir! Are you planning to 3d printing some of the parts?
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