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Fruitini
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Home for Heroes

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With a good friend being a big collector and fan of Marvel and super heroes, I (with the help of his housemate) took his collection of genuine Legomen hostage, added a few new additions and made a home for them all. Following the crazy dash to Christmas Eve, and subsequent standard Framer Xmas lurgy, I thought I would get back into work mode for 2014 by rekindling my youth and have a day playing with Lego.
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Lego baseplates were located and cut 6 nipples deep by their full 32x wide accommodating 8 regular sized men. Each of the 4 MDF chamber would also have its ceilings lined, with the left over bits cut one nipple wide as a shelf front.
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The chambers were joined using woodglue and panel pins and then separated with glued MDF spacers and held in place all the way round with some licky sticky brown tape.
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The now 7 chamber walls were lined with Black black core mount board, and any visible uncovered MDF was stained black. I made a lid out of Frinton deep rebate flat black 4014 and fixed the glass in with a small painted baton.
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The background image was found online and photoshopped to fit, printed and dry mounted to the MDF back - held together with more glue and panel pins. The figures are arranged in most probably completely the wrong order - but as the front will lift off he can rearrange as he pleases, or replace his fallen heroes. No adhesive used on the fellas - no need!
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Pretty chuffed with the final result so thought i'd share here.

Happy New Year all. Back to proper work tomorrow :lol:
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Re: Home for Heroes

Post by JohnMcafee »

Looks the business, Fruitini.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing"

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Post by StevenG »

Some really cool ideas used there! Love to see that, instead of the standard stuff. I like the finished piece a lot :clap: :clap: :D what holds the 'cover' in place btw?
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Thanks for the comments :) The frame is fixed to the chamber tray with 2 small brass mirror plates bent at right-angles on the top and bottom. Its a pretty tight fit so only really needed for safety sake. It takes a good wiggle to separate the two. Gave the gift today - he was gobsmacked. :) I want one now!
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Re: Home for Heroes

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:clap:
That is excellent. Looks like a lot of work but definitely stands out from normal framing.
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Great job! looks excellent!
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Re: Home for Heroes

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Super! Looks brill.
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Re: Home for Heroes

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This is wonderful. You could market this as a birthday gift for maybe young adults to people in their 50s who would really remember this type of thing being big. Perfect reminder of childhood.
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