For the central console I used 5 mm foam board that you can buy from any art shop, using the a template that I had printed from AFT Downloads 1980’s Tardis interiors. I cut each upper and lower panel, top and bottom hexagonal panels, a larger hexagonal piece to sit at the core of the console. Each console panel had their inside corners cut to an angle, making each piece corners fit together and glued together. With the lower half made, this was glued onto the larger hexagonal piece and sanded down.
I repeated the same process for the top of the console, but before I glued it to the rest of the base. I marked out each console and monitor that the 1980’s style console had. When I was researching pictures of this console, I had noticed with this particular console, all the monitors, keyboards, switches were sunk into the console unlike previous versions.
With this done, it was time to make the stand the console sat on, cutting six pieces of black foam, trimming and sanding each of the inner sides. These were then glued to the bottom hexagonal piece.
The next step is to shape the stand to how it looked back in the 80’s, paint the console before adding any buttons and levers.
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