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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Pretty chuffed with the final result so thought i'd share here.
Happy New Year all. Back to proper work tomorrow
Home for Heroes
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Re: Home for Heroes
Looks the business, Fruitini.
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Some really cool ideas used there! Love to see that, instead of the standard stuff. I like the finished piece a lot 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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That is excellent. Looks like a lot of work but definitely stands out from normal framing.
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Re: Home for Heroes
Great job! looks excellent!
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Re: Home for Heroes
Super! Looks brill.
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Re: Home for Heroes
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.