I thought I would share with you my second project, it's a communications room.

It started with me wanting to get my hands on the playmobil airport control desk, after losing out a few times I decided to forget the idea of owning one and instead build a communications desk out of lego.

My next step then was to build a second desk and a couple of walls as well as some monitors. Here is a preview shot of the communications desk.


I shared this on my fb wall and people really seemed to like it, so i thought i'd share it here as well with you guys. Hope you like it, when I am done with the walls and the other features and added them in i'll return back and post pictures.

In friendship
Rich

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That has a nice clean simplistic look and design that works extremely well. I really like teh look of that. The floor tiles are a brilliant touch. Look forward to seeing it completed, maybe with a couple of Tele-Vipers.

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Moved this to the critique section where it should get more feedback.
As I said on Facebook, I like this a lot, and I'm looking forward to the progression.

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it is very cool, and it works especially well with the microman figure, as it gives off a future retro vibe that really works.

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That does look cool, if ya got some Joes or Cobras to show in the next pics you take, i'd like to see them.

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Echoing what drbindy said - with the MM fig, this works really well (the lego "nubs" would be distracting with other types of figures, imo)

Looking forward to seeing the expanded room.

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That would look pretty keen with the StarFleet guys I'm doing, too. It's got a TOS vibe to it. It doesn't quite look scaled right, tho; it's a tad too low, I'd think. Poor fellow's gonna bang his knees into the table. Add another brick row under the console and it should work perfect.

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Adrienveidt is right: it does have a original-series Star Trek feel to it, which is a very good thing. I love the smooth lines of the front: it's a great-looking console, and as others have said, the Microman figure looks right at home with the Legos. Very cool.

this looks really good!

could you put more of those 'floor tiles' on top of the console & seat cushion to hide all the lego bits?

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Exactly what I was going to say.
other than those this is a lot of fun. good job.

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Looks cool man!

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I love what you're doing with Lego.

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Hey Guys,
So I have a brief update on this. I've built the other Communications Monitors that I wanted. I have also received the printouts that I am going to use for the screens.

Before I post the pictures here is a brief update as to what has been decided about the room/build:

*1 The communications console top will eventually be covered with tiles (in most of my builds I get the build right first then decorate with tiling afterwards).

*2 The room will eventually be expanded into an actual full scale building considering how big my shipping container is, this will be quite a large building even for my own building experience.

*3 The room will feature 4 screens with changeable channels (using the printouts my friend Seyms sent me).

*4 I plan to build a few desks and various other office based stuff like cabinets and telephones.

Now for the updated photos:




The one thing that I haven't yet decided on is if the Monitors/Screens will be wall mounted or if i should build a suspended gantry from the ceiling and have them on that? I've seen both designs used in communications rooms.

I've also since built a secondary desk to join up to the 1st console desk. I should have some pictures of this tomorrow.

Hope you like the update.

Rich

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So today I thought I'd post up a picture to show the monitors as well as the second console desk that is joining the 1st one i built.


I've not quite made a decision on if I should bracket the monitors to either wall (2 on either side) or make a gantry and suspend them from the ceiling. I will probably make a decision on this once I start building the surrounding walls as I work out the height and other details.

Just a quick note regarding the consoles and brick pieces. I am hoping to find matching grey colours so the bricks aren't out of colour, in some of the photos you will probably notice two types of grey, the most common is Light Grey where as the newer colour (light bluish grey) has been used on occasions when I didnt have the part available in the other colour, this is just a temporary thing and obviously i'll want to match all these colours up properly and have the pieces in the right colours, it just takes a little time to find the pieces at the right cost from bricklink,

From the photo you'll also be able to see that i've added the 1x8 and 1x4 Grey Tiles to the top of the console desks. This is coming along really nicely and i'm pleased with it so far.

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This is getting better and better.
Very well done.

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