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Post by Floyd Looney on Jun 28, 2009 2:20:18 GMT -5
I know I am a grown man. So please be polite.
There is this small back room here. More like an enclosed back porch. I was thinking my BIL might let me use it, or I could try his shed...
I was wondering how much effort it would take... plywood, metallic spraypaint, LED lights to make a desk area look like a shuttlepod cockpit. Might be a nice place to use the computer.
Just a weird thought
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Jun 28, 2009 9:10:40 GMT -5
I know I am a grown man. So please be polite. There is this small back room here. More like an enclosed back porch. I was thinking my BIL might let me use it, or I could try his shed... I was wondering how much effort it would take... plywood, metallic spraypaint, LED lights to make a desk area look like a shuttlepod cockpit. Might be a nice place to use the computer. Just a weird thought First, you should think of what kind of cockpit you want. Do you want an ultra-modern 'glass' cockpit? If so might try studying the cockpits of the latest fighter jets, such as the F/A-18E Super Hornet Or do you want something closer to Star Trek? If that is the case, then I wold suggest studying screen captures from the show. The new Battlestar Galactica's seemed to make heavy use of traditional computer keyboards and flatscreen monitors, at least for Pegasus's Combat Information Center. Ambient lighting would be very important too, or else it will not look as authentic. I do not really know a thing about sets or set-building or anything like that, but I would suggest a dark blue light, like the Navy uses in Combat Information Centers. |
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Post by Floyd Looney on Jun 28, 2009 18:40:55 GMT -5
I was thinking of turning the corner into a one or two seat cockpit, as if it were a shuttlecraft or something. I wouldn't build any back, of course, I'd need a fan and some AC piped in because it gets very very hot. Blue lights? Hm. Not much glass, the room is 90% class now, it gets far too hot.
I'd probably build some type of hatch with wires and 'computer guts'. There would be buttons and switches and battery powered LED lights.
Over at the ST NV foum someone who makes their sets gave me some advice on painting plywood or cardboard to make them look right.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Jun 28, 2009 22:36:26 GMT -5
If I took a desk or a table and used painted plywood and cardboard to do it, it might be okay. I would definitely want it to have small windows and to make it as dark as possible. But it needs to be more than just in front of the person sitting there, it needs to have both sides too.
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Jun 29, 2009 15:30:29 GMT -5
I would suggest extending plywood beyond your 9 o-clock and 3 o-clock for the sides, and make them and all the parts easily removable in case you want to make some changes to it or build a new one or something.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 2, 2009 1:32:59 GMT -5
Been offline a while. sorry.
Definitely have to be easy to disassemble. At least 9 and 3, I would say.
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