But I'm back at it again. All the counter tops are painted, (2 coats, everything takes 2 coats).
I've put in shelves just below the windshields, cut, painted and installed a bunch of pieces of molding, but still a few yet to do...all the angle cuts. Installed a vinyl tile floor, cut and painted all the base board pieces, (paint still wet on those, so maybe get them in tomorrow.) Hung the cockpit pocket door. I had installed all the electrical boxes to hold winky/blinky lights, but then I decided to paint them, so had to take them out again. In the old ship, I just left them their natural gray color, but I'm going to go with the gold metallic this time.
I came up with an idea for some support strut looking pieces, so I bought a bag full of plastic plumbing fittings and some 1 1/4" pipe. I've primed and painted some of the parts silver, letting the pipe its natural black plastic for now. I need to make some bracket/mounting pieces out of 1/2" MDF, but I think its going to look cool when they're done.
Oh, I bought 2 nice office chairs. They're still in their boxes, but I plan to sci fi them up when I assemble them. I bought new casters for them, with hard rubber wheels, to replace the plastic ones. I'm hoping these will be easier on my shiny black floor.
Heres the link to my image shack photo collection: http://my.imageshack.us/v_images.php
Still lots to do, but at least for the cockpit, there is now light at the end of the tunnel. I don't think the air lock and living quarters will take near as long to do, they are much simpler in design, without all the electrical and other details that have gone into the cockpit.
