Hey guys.

We're all geeks here so I feel safe sharing this;

I'm building a Space ship in my basement.

First off, I have WAY to much free time. I spend most of it playing on my 'puter, so some years ago I got it into my head to build a computer game room with a sci fi theme. That idea just kept growing and eventually I had an 8' x 13' spaceship in the corner of my basement. It was pretty cool, but there were a couple of design flaws. (insufficient heat ventilation, poor seating layout being the most glaring). So after about 5 years, I decided to tear it all out and build a new one. I've been at it for a couple of months now.

I'm keeping a blog to record my progress and share with friends: marsblog-margali.blogspot.com/

It's a pretty low tech affair with copy and paste addresses for some pictures on Imageshack. (Other them gaming, my computer/internet skills are not good)

Feel free to have a look.

Pretty cool! Do you have any drawings of what the completed ship will look like?

I particularly like the red rope light effect, and the light fixture with the wire frame over it. Very space-shippy.

If I'm not being intrusive, what do you do with the ship when you're done? Is it your wo-man cave? Just a fun place to chill? Do you do any RL role playing? Or do you just like to be in it? Or is the journey what's important, and once you're done you'll start on the next one?

My personal geek-out on the same level is: I would absolutely LOVE to have a full size TARDIS police box in my garden. One with a remote control, so I could turn on the window lights, and make the top lantern flash and maybe even do sound effects. Oh, it would make me ridiculously happy, just seeing it out there each day. I hear that someone in a co-worker's neighborhood (NW of Denver) has one, but I haven't gone looking for it yet.

Good luck with your project! Keep us posted on the progress.

lol When I have my own place, with a garden, the shed is SO gonna be a Tardis! :-D

Propecius wrote:



I built a 1" = 1' rough scale model out of posterboard, just to work out the dimensions and angles. Other then that and a few sketches there are no real plans. I have in my head a fair idea of what I want it to look like, and I just work out the details as I go along. Mostly I just start fitting things together and see what develops.

Some things happen because I find some cool shape or item and then figure out a way to include it. Example; I was planning on putting in some kind of warp core/reactor blinking light thing. In the old ship, I had a plastic tube with holes drilled in it, that I filled with red blinking lights from Radio Shack. I was going to use that in the new ship, but I was out shopping this afternoon, and on a whim stopped at Spencer's gifts, where I found a funky LED disco light. Now I'll just have to work it into the box where the tube fit, but I can't say exactly what it'll look like when its done.

It's kind of fun browsing through stores, just looking at the shape of a thing, imagining it painted silver, with a blinking light in it, or an old Star Trek sticker on it, or what ever. At home depot I found these things that are used to provide a ventilating gap under attic insulation. They're molded plastic with a kind of "X" truss work design. I bought a few, ($1.80 @), don't know what they'll become yet.

When its done? You're pretty much on target with "wo-man cave" It's just a fun place to hide out and loose my self in the various online worlds I explore. It's a 2 seater so my Sweety can join me from time to time. (She likes word games, computer sudoko, and majong) And the back half of the ship, the Captains Quarters, will be a usable guest room.

If we ever have an actual guest, they better be a sci fi fan.

After a long break, I'm back at work, and updated my blog at:

marsblog-margali.blogspot.com/

There's a few new pics at: my.imageshack.us/v_images.php

NICE!!!!!!