Entrance Design - Part 1

When I first built this Space Base, the design was of a concave setup.  The Entrance was farthest away from the edge of the table and was only dominate because of the large tower structure on top.  Over time it has changed, especially since I decided to change the overall setup to convex.  These next three pictures show the evolution of the entrance.

The second picture shows the beginning of the cliff walls being attached.   The last picture shows the major change I made just prior to the Brick Days event in Omaha.  I built the beginnings of a large entry structure with doors with the Blacktron Logo on them.  It was very simple and very little detail.  But it needed a lot more than what was there.  This post will describe what all is entailed in the entrance design.

This is a view from the back.  You can see the back of the doors .  On the second level is the beginning of two large rooms, one on either side.  

The next set of pictures show the construction of the conference room.  Here parts of the flooring are in place.  The legs for the tables done. I used two 1x1 plates and one 1x1 round brick for the legs.  The jumper plates are for the table chairs and a place for a minifigure to stand.

This has a large table and seating for seven. 

Here the last of the transparent light blue walls are in place.

This shows the final detail of the conference room.  All the attendees are in place.  The video monitor is installed on the left and there is a guard. 

What is missing?  Well the tan wall on the right is bare, there could be something there.  There is not any room for Lego parts, so it would have to be a sticker depicting a map or the station layout.  There could be items on the table, but anything that would attach to a stud would be too large.  You could put the 1x2 cheese slopes with stickers on them to show video screens.  

This picture shows the beginnings of the briefing room.  There are chairs for nine members plus the briefers.  There is also a video screen installed.

Now you can see the desk in the back of the briefing room.

This gives a different perspective.  Here we can see the podium and the briefer with his pointer. 

What the above picture also shows, along with this one below, is the start of the third floor. 

This shows the third floor complete.  There are desks on either side with laptop computers on each.  The center area has three personnel standing watch over the entrance with a control panel.

This is what the current version looks like.

 

I still see changed coming for this.  Behind the columns on the left and right, were intended to be large power generators, like the Warp Core generators in Star Trek.  This still has to be done along with some minor updates to the color scheme.

LED lighting has been added and will be discussed in Part 3.