Mech Bay Project Part 7

December 11th, 2006

3 new Concept Sketches from Tony, we might be honing in on the final design!

The garage door. Tony:
"Here is an outside view of the garage door inset into a mountain side.  You can see the massive door and also two other smaller doors on the bottom for the use of smaller vehicles and technicians.  We can make the door out of those large signs and cut them into strips to replicate the long pieces. The two sides can be that really thick foam carved into a rough rocky surface and smoothed with acetone.  Neil mentioned we could paint the foam with latex house paint"
Heavy duty brace for over head crane. Tony:
"I was thinking of extremely over sized support braces for the crane system.  The footings would be two pvc tubes with some sort of hydraulic device between them.  We can take a pvc connector and modify it radically and make two or three types of different masters.  Keeping it a surface mold type piece is the key here."
. Tony:
"This is the observation area above the garage doors.  I was looking thru those fantastic greeblies that Joe provided and there were some that really begged to be used for the ventilation systems, and whatever else systems that are being piped out of that structure.  We could use all different diameters of solder to make the conduits.  If we can find really small fluorescent tubing maybe joe can light the interiors.  The readouts don't need to be lit, just the interior.  We can modify 1/35 military figures with epoxy putty and turn them into technicians and pilots.  Joe can cast then cast multiple copies and we can cut them up and re-pose them all over the place."

Tony:
"That's it so far.  I'm looking thru the greeblies to find more prime candidates for the project."