The Museum in our house' lower level is finally being finished. Another month should do it and then I plan to do two projects in a step by step here as I think there will be some interest. First, besides the museum which takes up 80% of the lower level, I have a media room that will serve as a nice place for friends and relatives to watch movies and be entertained. I have all the materials I need to build a miniature 1/8th scale movie Marquee to go over the door outside the room that will be in the museum proper. It will be elaborate and, if my plans work out, should be pretty cool. It will have more than a hundred miniature lights, a backlit marquee with all the text, "Now Playing, Cinema, etc., etc.
Here are a couple of photos of the media room so you can get an idea of the ambiance I want.
Anyway, you get the idea.
On the entrance to this room, which will be in the museum, I want to build a 1/8th scale marquee to go over the door with framed movie posters on either side of the door. It will be the old fashioned type, done in a brass patina that has turned a blue green over time. Such as this cabinet I built for my daughter as a step by step here on MA.
https://www.modelersalliance.com/forum/bob-letterman/116233-another-birthday-project-delivered-dec-12-2012
Something similar to these.
Of course, the one I will build will be in miniature and not quite as elaborate, but have "The Look" of a real marquee.
Then, along with this, I will build a new workshop. I don't have the space I had at our last house where I actually had two workshops, so this one will be compact and efficient..... Hopefully.
I plan on doing the marquee first, but may end up building them simultaneously.
I hope to get started in the next couple of weeks.
Here are a couple of photos of the media room so you can get an idea of the ambiance I want.
Anyway, you get the idea.
On the entrance to this room, which will be in the museum, I want to build a 1/8th scale marquee to go over the door with framed movie posters on either side of the door. It will be the old fashioned type, done in a brass patina that has turned a blue green over time. Such as this cabinet I built for my daughter as a step by step here on MA.
https://www.modelersalliance.com/forum/bob-letterman/116233-another-birthday-project-delivered-dec-12-2012
Something similar to these.
Of course, the one I will build will be in miniature and not quite as elaborate, but have "The Look" of a real marquee.
Then, along with this, I will build a new workshop. I don't have the space I had at our last house where I actually had two workshops, so this one will be compact and efficient..... Hopefully.
I plan on doing the marquee first, but may end up building them simultaneously.
I hope to get started in the next couple of weeks.