Well, I finally got around to making my dreamcast console..(pics are at the bottom)....Ill list the steps of how I did in case anyone else wants to do it..
First you need to sit in your car and stare at your floor for atleast an hour to invision what you want it to look like. Then after staring for an hour, you sketch it on a peice of paper. After that, you get your little cardboard peices out and you start taping stuff together of how you 'think' you want it to look. After you get that done, then take your wood, and copy the cardboard template onto the wood and cut out all of the peices (I Used a band saw). Sand all of the corners smooth and put that beast together using wood screws..make sure to recess them into the board. For the front peice that is really round like a snow plow..once I got the wood sides and center together, I took a peice of cardboard and taped it at the angle I wanted it. For the 'raised' portions where the dreamcast sits on I used small peices of wood, and taped over them......this all gave me the shape I was looking for...now comes the fun part
Fiberglass over all of the joints and fiberglass the whole damn thing atleast 2 coats. Wear gloves and a mask, it will kill you if not! If you get it on your hands, its not fun to get off. Mixing it isnt that tough, but making it all stick isnt that much fun. Try to dab it and make it as smooth as possible because the more holes you have, the more your going to have to fill with bondo. After letting that sit for a good 2 hours to let it set..take your big mean dremel tool and smooth it as well as you can, removing all rough edges. After its as smooth as you can get it, mix up your bondo (I Used bondo lightweight body filler) and apply that to the whole thing... bondo I found out after 2 projects now is a definite art. After that sets up after 20 minutes, sand and sand on it for hours, until its how you want it...after that..paint it. As you can see im not perfect at bondo..thats after one coat, If i thought I wasnt going to cover it, I would had made it perfectly smooth using many layers of bondo. Total time to create was around 6 hours plus upholstry time. I sanded until my arm fell off...and then sanded some more.
Well, enough typing, here is the finished product before and after upholstry. The first one shows how it will set in my car.
Nate.
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