This is a project I started sketching out & collecting stuff for as far back as 2004.
Ideally, this will hold quite a bit of my collection & customs in a relatively small footprint.
The base materials are a 4-shelf set from wal-mart (plus an extra one I had) and some cut-to-fit hardboard from home depot.
*note: the back pieces are cut 1/2" shorter than the walls, due to the construction of the plastic shelves.
I intend to get all the major construction & priming done before the snow flies, and involve my kids as much as possible moving forward.
They've been excluded so far, due to using the table & chop saw ... and the walls have a coat of acrylic primer on them
All but one of the levels will have a hardboard backing
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I've cut some of the supports in half, to have different heights of levels
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I cut 2x4's to put in the compartments to hold the casters
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Showing the holes drilled for screwing the bottom level to the 2x4's
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Marking out & drilling for the castors (but will wait to fully install them later)
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Dang. drilled all the way through. good thing I know how to cover that up later!
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Showing the walls up
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Detail of how the board fits in behind the support structures
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Rough assembly showing the Castle Greyskull top & various parts inside (thanks Chief!)
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Additional structure detail, including another Castle Greyskull, some Helsing Castles, and various Fisher Price castles (thanks for the inspiration, JFAK!)
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Eventually, I plan to have:
1. vehicle storage
2. MARS workshop / BAT factory
3. Mindbender Lab / detention cells
4. Armory
5. Destro (throne room?) (communications center?)
6. Roof - Landing pad & parapet artillary
7. Fold out landing pad/artillary/sliding walls
Thoughts or suggestions thus far?
-jm