I am building him his own shelf because he’s just too large to be with his brothers on actually my next shelf build.
I contacted Prime 1 because he’s listed as 36” wide roughly but the base is not that wide since he sticks out. They sent me back a diagram with measurements on it so his base is a perfect circle measuring 26”.
I went over to Lowe’s and scooped up the cheaper unsanded 3’ round table tops and I’m putting 8 round feet on the bottom then felt them.
The plan is to build it about 3’ tall so he’s not looking down at me. I plan to attaché the 2 with 4x4s likely 5 around and one in the center. I’m not 100% on where because I’m using color changing leds inside set to purple of course and I can’t have the wood ruining how it reflects. The wood will be painted white for reflectivity.
In fact I could wrap the 4x4s with white board like I used on my huge shelves then wrap the frosted plexi in front of that. Just thought of the idea now.
So in the end you will see a round table where the bottom has a purple glow and a large decepticon black and chrome logo. I will drill and channel the wood so the wiring will come out of the back all near as well. No cheaping it out lol I may have the table tops routed at a shop for the plexiglass to sit in. Not sure just yet. The plexiglass will be the most costly part but luckily it can be as thin as possible as loss as it doesn’t crack.
So far I sanded the tops. I plan to use chalk paint. I may do black, purple or white. I’ve not decided just yet. It hide a lot of imperfections in the wood and is very durable and I could actually spray paint a white base and sand down the chalk paint or scrape circuit boards into it.
We will see. Thanks for checking in and sorry there’s not a lot of photos yet.
I contacted Prime 1 because he’s listed as 36” wide roughly but the base is not that wide since he sticks out. They sent me back a diagram with measurements on it so his base is a perfect circle measuring 26”.
I went over to Lowe’s and scooped up the cheaper unsanded 3’ round table tops and I’m putting 8 round feet on the bottom then felt them.
The plan is to build it about 3’ tall so he’s not looking down at me. I plan to attaché the 2 with 4x4s likely 5 around and one in the center. I’m not 100% on where because I’m using color changing leds inside set to purple of course and I can’t have the wood ruining how it reflects. The wood will be painted white for reflectivity.
In fact I could wrap the 4x4s with white board like I used on my huge shelves then wrap the frosted plexi in front of that. Just thought of the idea now.
So in the end you will see a round table where the bottom has a purple glow and a large decepticon black and chrome logo. I will drill and channel the wood so the wiring will come out of the back all near as well. No cheaping it out lol I may have the table tops routed at a shop for the plexiglass to sit in. Not sure just yet. The plexiglass will be the most costly part but luckily it can be as thin as possible as loss as it doesn’t crack.
So far I sanded the tops. I plan to use chalk paint. I may do black, purple or white. I’ve not decided just yet. It hide a lot of imperfections in the wood and is very durable and I could actually spray paint a white base and sand down the chalk paint or scrape circuit boards into it.
We will see. Thanks for checking in and sorry there’s not a lot of photos yet.