My Ultimate Mech Bay.

Here is one of my little pet projects that has been on and off my priority list for quite a while. This is the closest to finished it has been so far. I threw in a bunch of eye candy as well. These are four separate mech bays made by Kotobukiya of Japan. I am currently in the process of permanently mounting the four bays onto a plank of wood so that I could move it from place to place a whole lot easier. Why, you might ask, do I need to move them all together? Just wait until you get to the bottom of the page.....

The loading claw in the foreground is fully articulate and it comes with an interchangeable engineer platform.

Here you can see a custom control booth that I scratch-built to monitor the flow of traffic in my mech bay. I also added some guard rails to the walkway on the right, but I see I have forgotten guard rails on the platform where Han Solo is standing dangerously close to the edge. Oops. I hope there are no surprise OSHA inspections...

The coolant turret with the hoses is also a custom-built piece of my mech bay. The hoses are made from two part epoxy. I think the turret itself might have been part of a Transformer toy.

Ok, now you have a pretty good idea of how busy my mech bay is. Now you are probably asking "Why is this the ultimate mech bay?" Well, here comes the shock and awe portion of my post....

To give my control booth a bit of life, I painted some crew silhouettes inside.

Now you know why the bay door is so big.

I still have to work on toning down the LEDs just a little bit, and the white ones look a bit like the blue ones in some pics, but good grief, it was a lot of work to install them. I believe this little project has been well worth the trouble so far.