Gun Rack for Blasters with some modifications

[T-Jay[TK]]

Update #09        - Cabinet background
 

Never felt happy with all that free space inside the cabinet. And the boring rear door was still clearly visible.
So I had to focus on the background instead of the display pieces. 








Was happy with the result and for me both panels brought some Star Wars vibe into that cabinet. Yes, blinking lights would have been very cool but I lack the skills to build something. We‘ll get back to that later.

Next I had to reorganize a few items inside the cabinet. About six years ago, two drawers had been added, just laying on a painted wooden shelf. Their flat metal surface made them slip around, each time I touched them. Pretty useless when not being mounted. So I tackled this next…




Moving the drawers to the middle, caused a large area to fill right below them. This (plus other things) will be covered in the next update...

Edited January 2, 2025 by T-Jay

[T-Jay[TK]]

Update #10        - ‘with some modifications’
 

Thought about placing some kind of control panel below the drawers. Should be easy to make from wood with some knobs and greeblies.
Then I got an old tablet in hands and things went a bit crazy. Sorry, had missed to take photos of some steps.




Now what to do with that thing? Would be cool to have some Star Wars footage, looking like coming from Death Star security cameras or so.
Hm, maybe that already exists?! On Youtube I indeed found a suitable clip. So I contacted the owner and asked for permission to use it. As chance had it, this was made by FISD member Daniel @SKUTCH and he agreed. Thanks again, Daniel.

He looped a 3.5 mins sequence to a 25 mins clip. I chopped it down to 2.5 mins with no audio and transferred it to the tablet, where it can run in an endless loop.



Wondering how it looks like? You got to wait a moment.

Then it was time to fill that cabinet with everything I had gathered over the years plus the blasters, all decoration and stuff. I started at the bottom because some things are just stacked on top of each other.

Ever since finding those device covers, I dreamed of how cool it would be to have the red and white lights blinking, like seen on many background props in the movies. Unfortunately I wasn‘t able to do that but luckily there is Dave @Cody42 in my Squad. He had offered to build custom-made circuit boards to fit behind the covers. It took some time, phone calls, measurements and bucks but he went all out and designed the following:



Having no AC power outlet nearby the cabinet, he ingeniously made the circuit boards to work at 5V DC via Mini-USB port. That means they can be operated with a standard power bank. It is also possible to switch through various light modes, adjust the brightness and the interval time. And whatever you select remains stored in the memory, even when the power source gets disconnected.

https://youtu.be/x7fIisnKrJM

In the video you can see two temporary push buttons. These are required for configuration. For the final setup Dave had simply planned with my black switches, which were already present in both panels. 
Dave, I cannot thank you enough for this awesome work. Even after a few years now, everything is still working fine.



And that‘s it. Project finally completed.   The cabinet is completely filled with goodies and electronics.
The 'surveillance' video looks very cool and the lamps change every 10 secs.

As photos don‘t work well to show the final result, I simply filmed the cabinet from top to bottom. Enjoy.
 

 

Edited January 2, 2025 by T-Jay

[Daetrin[Admin]]

This is wicked cool.  I mean, talk about going all out on a project.  Amazing work and thanks so much for sharing!

[themaninthesuitcase[Admin]]

Oooh proper PCBs and everything  Nice.

 

You clearly have a much higher quality drop point at your work than I do, don't think a few broken mice and gross old keyboards would yield much of use!

 

This has come out really nice.

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Very nice, looking great

[Sly11[Admin]]

Incredible work, I love it.

[ukswrath[Staff]]

I have mine hanging from hooks on a wall, boring!

 

I'd love to see these for sale

 

 

[Bulldog44[TK]]

Amazing!!!! Tino magic! 
 

So happy to see this project in its full glory. 

[T-Jay[TK]]

Thanks for all the kind words, guys. Means a lot to me. 
 

12 hours ago, Bulldog44 said:

(...)   So happy to see this project in its full glory. 

Thanks Brian. Hope you don't mind I meanwhile took your premium scope out of that little showcase box. It simply was too much fun to tell people "One of these scopes is real. Guess which one - without touching." 
 

12 hours ago, ukswrath said:

I have mine hanging from hooks on a wall, boring!

 

I'd love to see these for sale

 

 

Hey Tony. Guessing I won't ever offer something like this for sale. Just imagine the shipping costs... 
However, if you want to upgrade the wall-mount for your blasters, here is a link to the gun rack, which started it all.
The measurements should help to build something similar and you can expand or reduce the size to match your amount of blasters.

[revlimiter[Staff]]

Oh my gosh. I just thought this thread was bumped. I didn't expect fresh content. Let alone content like THIS!!!!

 

Incredible work Tino.   Just incredible. I mean, the 2019 version was already mind blowing... This is perfection.

[ukswrath[Staff]]

11 hours ago, T-Jay said:

Thanks for all the kind words, guys. Means a lot to me. 
 

Thanks Brian. Hope you don't mind I meanwhile took your premium scope out of that little showcase box. It simply was too much fun to tell people "One of these scopes is real. Guess which one - without touching." 
 

Hey Tony. Guessing I won't ever offer something like this for sale. Just imagine the shipping costs... 
However, if you want to upgrade the wall-mount for your blasters, here is a link to the gun rack, which started it all.
The measurements should help to build something similar and you can expand or reduce the size to match your amount of blasters.

 

 

Copy that Tino, and thanks.

 

Outstanding work on your rack!

 

[Bulldog44[TK]]

Its an honor you having one of my scopes on display. Sounds like good fun to have people guess.