After the sad demise of my first scale garage i've finally got round to starting Mark 2. The first one was built onto our old dining room table and as such took up a lot of room in the corner of my garage. So, after it went off to the tip, i set about thinking of how i could improve it, and hopefully this will be the last one i do.
First thing was to make it wall mounted so i could use the space underneath. It's also a bit wider, not quite so deep, and it will have 2 sides rather than 1.
I started by primering the door a few weeks ago in the hope that it would get me motivated to start the rest. And it did.
Here's the door.
Left hand side will include the door, and a roller shutter (work in progress).
The back will have 3 windows.
The base getting primered. You can see here the framework mounted to the wall.
And lastly for now, the beginnging of the roller shutter.
I know it's not a great start, but i'm hoping that starting a build thread will keep me interested in making small amounts of progress... We shall see...
I then broke out the roller, and finished the sides, and painted the floor with some left over garage floor paint i had.
And some more left overs. Sort of a creamy off white. It'll do nicely.
I had a small disaster with the roller shutter door. The corrugated styrene was really flimsy, so i bonded it to a piece of 3mm styrene sheet, and went to bed. When i went in to the garage the following morning, it was like a pringle!!!
So, it had to be scrapped. Then, i decided to make my own. I found an old header board from work made from 4mm foamex. So, i chopped it to the right size and then used the back end of my tweezers to score lines into it. A bit of a laborious task, but quite happy with the results.
Pleased with the results so far.
Next job was to finish the roller shutter edges, top box and pull chain.
I finally finished the painting and have started adding some little details. I decided to put some brickwork in to break up the blank looking wall. I still need to add the skirting boards and finish up the roller shutter, then i can screw/glue the sides to the base. So, here's where i'm at now:
Here's the view through one of the windows:
I'm not sure what to do with the window frames yet. The glass (lexan) will be painted matt clear to prevent viewing through it. Thoughts on the frames? Should i leave them, paint them or stain them?
More coming soon... Thanks for looking.
First thing was to make it wall mounted so i could use the space underneath. It's also a bit wider, not quite so deep, and it will have 2 sides rather than 1.
I started by primering the door a few weeks ago in the hope that it would get me motivated to start the rest. And it did.
Here's the door.
Left hand side will include the door, and a roller shutter (work in progress).
The back will have 3 windows.
The base getting primered. You can see here the framework mounted to the wall.
And lastly for now, the beginnging of the roller shutter.
I know it's not a great start, but i'm hoping that starting a build thread will keep me interested in making small amounts of progress... We shall see...
I then broke out the roller, and finished the sides, and painted the floor with some left over garage floor paint i had.
And some more left overs. Sort of a creamy off white. It'll do nicely.
I had a small disaster with the roller shutter door. The corrugated styrene was really flimsy, so i bonded it to a piece of 3mm styrene sheet, and went to bed. When i went in to the garage the following morning, it was like a pringle!!!
So, it had to be scrapped. Then, i decided to make my own. I found an old header board from work made from 4mm foamex. So, i chopped it to the right size and then used the back end of my tweezers to score lines into it. A bit of a laborious task, but quite happy with the results.
Pleased with the results so far.
Next job was to finish the roller shutter edges, top box and pull chain.
I finally finished the painting and have started adding some little details. I decided to put some brickwork in to break up the blank looking wall. I still need to add the skirting boards and finish up the roller shutter, then i can screw/glue the sides to the base. So, here's where i'm at now:
Here's the view through one of the windows:
I'm not sure what to do with the window frames yet. The glass (lexan) will be painted matt clear to prevent viewing through it. Thoughts on the frames? Should i leave them, paint them or stain them?
More coming soon... Thanks for looking.
