Oolite on a 72" screen...

[drew]

... and more to come when I get a bigger screen.

Operation 'games room' moves into feasibility testing!





So far:

Tidied attic sufficiently to actually be able to move around.
1x Rebuilt PC out of bits I found - working (p4 3 ghz, nvida 6800 GT, 2 gigs ram)
1x 1024x768 projector from ebay.
1x cheapo old projector screen found at back of attic left since 2003.
1x Denon amplifier (spare after new TV surround replaced my old hifi sound system)
2x 200w bookshelf speakers (Ditto)

Depending on the positioning I reckon I can fit a 12 foot diagonal screen, giving me Oolite on 144" display

Cheers,

Drew.

[DaddyHoggy]

Bravo!

(I note you have built a PC out of spare bits that is higher spec than my current main desktop system in all but RAM... )

[drew]

Plan is to have a permanently mounted model railway, a scalextric and a 'studio' equipped with mixer, tracking, keyboard, guitar and electronic drums.

You can just make out the railway in the second pic, left hand side.

Back to the 80s!

Cheers,

Drew.

[DaddyHoggy]

Is this your room then?

[drew]

It's the 'boys' room.

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So, er, yes.

Cheers,

Drew.

[Cody]

a permanently mounted model railway

Ahhh... that takes me back about fifty years!

[drew]

Imagine the entire section in front of the final trusses (where the diddy screen is) being a white projection screen... that's the 'viewer', with some subtle mood lighting around the edges (with a few functional looking LEDs about perhaps. I'm hoping to paint the support tresses in a a sort of 'military bulkhead' style... should look rather 'cobra-y' when it's done.

With the projector mounted behind, a moveable console, wireless controls and a nice chunky joystick, somewhere around 200-500 watts of quadraphonic and a nice comfy pilots chair... I'll be out there!

Oh and it will play other games and shows DVDs etc at a pinch.

Cheers,

Drew/

[Smivs]

...it will play other games...

There are other games???

[CommonSenseOTB]

It's a great hobby, isn't it.

[Fatleaf]

Try placing your speakers at the side and in the middle of your screen so the sound is coming out from where you are looking at and not from underneath. It will make a bit of a difference.

[Killer Wolf]

wow, cracking.
okay, ideas :
- paint everything silvery/grey and you can pretend it's a spaceship interior due to those beams etc.
- get a train, strip off all the body so there's just the motor/wheels bit of the chassis, then glue a vertical bit of perspex rod to it, and onto that you can fix one of Selezen's paper ships : you can have a cobra whizzing about! paint the walls black and a planet at either end and you can pretend it's doing cargo runs

[ClymAngus]

Here's an idea, over mounting.
1) don't touch, drill into, otherwise disturb the existing structure of the roof. On pain of death.
2) clad the existing beam in a 3 sided "box" of mdf or standard treated timber. This box is fixed to itself not the beam.
3) unscrew one side of the box (taking it away from the beam) then drill out some nice iron beam like holes in it tea cup size maybe a bit less.
4) paint
5) remount.

So really your making a box on a beam. the box is held in place by it's apex, weight wise the lighter the possible, you could even fit a cross brace at the top if you wanted to make sire there was no outward push from the bottom part of the box.

Bit of a build but by god it would look the mutts.