Here's what I'm up to now

[TD-7716]

Sweet!!!!  all in

[greedo]

Wow, it's been awhile.... anyone remember this project?

Well, I am taking a break from blasters and getting back to some of my own projects i have been neglecting...namely this one.


First off, I cut a small hole at the bottom of the panel.  This will allow me to stick up a rod from the bottom when I want to remove the glass.  it will just pop up the glass from where it sits so i can grip it to take it off.  hopefully i wont have to ever remove the glass, but you gotta prep for it just in case....




I cut some black melamine wood for the molding that goes around the rope light.  This will allow the light to shine down onto solo, but will hide the rope itself.  I'm going with an angled look to help reflect it downward.  glued it together and waiting for it to dry as one piece,



Once it was dry, I cut my 45 degree angles for the corners


Here's what it looks like set in place.


And here's what it looks like lit up.


More to come!!

[Traskk]

Wow, that looks great!

[Quick2]

I like this a lot.. well done

[Jabbasdead]

Looks great...

[Mosi]

SCHWING!

[Daverian]

amazing. Great job!! Good choice of lighting!

[Ilovesanddirt]

Dude, Greedo, you are AWESOME!

[greedo]

It's not very exciting, but at least is shows that I'm working on it...

Drilled a hole and put in a grommet for the power cord to come out of the table.  All of the guts and electronics will be housed in the endcap and this allows the power cable to come out and be plugged in to a standard outlet or extension cord.



And here goes the paint.  If you look at the lower end of the endcap you can see the hole for the cable.  You will also notice three small square openings above where the doors go.   these openings are where I will have 3 LED puck lights mounted that will glow downward under neath Solo.  




These are the LED's that will be mounted underneath  the table top.  They go in the three openings I described in the upper picture.  there are 6 all together.


More to come!

[greedo]

done painting the body of the cabinet and now it's time to move on to the fun stuff.....lighting

I am using 3 pucklights at each end cap.  two on the top and one on the bottom.  they are mounted on these plywood boards so that i can easily install them into the caps.



Here are the top ones mounted....



And here it is all lit up.  I still need to purchase the orange plastic that will cover the holes, but this gives you an idea of what I'm doing.  It also lets me know that all of the lights work before I get too deep into packing them inside with the top mounted.



More to come!

[greedo]

Installed the orange plastic today.  here's what it will look like



More to come!..... after Emerald City Con this weekend that is

[greedo]

Here's the two pieces mounted together now. 



I'll get back on this soon, but now it's of to ECCC! 

[TD-7716]

Holy Sh#$ that's sweet

[Trumby]

Man that looks so nice. Can't wait until I get into a house with a garage so I have a place to work on stuff like this!

[greedo]

Wake up Post! 


Ok,,,, Back to work. 

I'm on the home stretch of this project.  I painted and installed the doors earlier this week.  I painted them the same silver as Mr Solo to make a nice contrast.  But, after looking at them installed, I thought this table deserves better. 



So, in keeping with the theme I thought what would boba fett's poker table look like???  Here's where we ended up with that.......


First the yellow......

Then the green........


BAM!