Command
Section
This was
what made building a facsimile of the Galaxy Command playset
fun.
You will
need to print out the file of the Command Section
You will
need some Styrofoam or similar material about 14” x 9”, some Elmer’s Glue or
any adhesive that will stick paper to Styrofoam or what ever
you are working with, and some way to cut the Styrofoam. They make commercially
available cutters to do this with that use heat to neatly cut the material. You
will also need a piece of thin carboard about 4” x
4”, and a large domed drink cup cover. Clear plastic cups will do, but that’s
up to you. A glue gun will be handy as well.
Glue the
printout together. I recommend letting it dry before fussing with it on the
Styrofoam. Once it has dried, glue it to the material and using your cutter,
very carefully cut
around the blue terrain base. Then, on the inside where the
control panel is, cut that out around the inside of the control panel.
Once that is
done, dry fit the cardboard to the bottom of the terrain base, and cut it to
fit, making it larger than the control room bottom but not too big to stick out
of the terrain base. Glue it in place. The hot glue gun seems to do well with
this.
Turn it over
and place the dome on the control center. I don’t recommend gluing it as you
can place astronauts and equipment inside it at a whim, and if the dome gets
damaged you merely replace it without having to tear the old one off.
Heres an early version of my finished
Galaxy Command. I
made 2 sets of terrain bases.
I have
progressed quite a bit since then by improving a lot of it and getting more
Marx recast and other equipment. Notice the home made fuel tanks from PVC caps
and a plastic card stock. If you want to paint the exposed Styrofoam, you can,
but I got lazy and left it as is. Pardon the bar code on the cup, but like I
said, this was early on, and the cup fit! Notice the dome cup top on the other
command section. The “space gun” is from a bag full of space rockets and guns I
got at a flea market.
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