A console for Tuvok
 

On the weekend I made a console for Tuvok!

https://i.postimg.cc/02wt80dm/Tuvok-Console.jpg

I got the prints from the Voyager Illustrated Handbook:

https://i.postimg.cc/prnBLP8x/Tuvok01.jpg

My materials - just cardboard and a wooden stick from candied apples:

https://i.postimg.cc/PqtKQsGz/Tuvok02.jpg

I split it in two halves, it is for the round edge at the front of the console:

https://i.postimg.cc/9QHLzwJk/Tuvok03.jpg

To hide the ugly cardboard sides, I added tape:

https://i.postimg.cc/vBTzCrZ4/Tuvok04.jpg

Result of the first day:

https://i.postimg.cc/SsPr4nnD/Tuvok05.jpg

But then I realized the console should be at an angle and also the top, so I added triangles in the corners to keep the shape:

https://i.postimg.cc/bw03nY5w/Tuvok06.jpg

And then I got ambitious and instead of just glueing the printed display to the top of the cardboard, I wanted it to be inserted. Which meant adding another layer and destroying my perfectly flush top to have it flush with the front:

https://i.postimg.cc/ZqVHf74k/Tuvok07.jpg

See, all cardboards. The prints go behind to give an edge around:

https://i.postimg.cc/YjKz4TfF/Tuvok08.jpg

Looks good but there is this ugly gap between the cardboard and the wooden stick:

https://i.postimg.cc/RC6rHfLC/Tuvok09.jpg

So I created some kind of apron from paper and sprayed it with the same grey paint and wrapped it around to give a smooth surface.
Yesterday I did it with newspaper which was so thin it cracked when I glued it. And instead of trying again, I tried to spray over it and with that destroyed the whole printed display. So I had to wait till today for printing a new one:

https://i.postimg.cc/pVgwYTsf/Tuvok10.jpg

I also added plastic foil to make the displays more shiny.

https://i.postimg.cc/RVKjPBYj/Tuvok11.jpg

I'm very proud of it! He will also get his front console but since this was so much work I did not finish that yet.

https://i.postimg.cc/rFkhwthP/Tuvok21.jpg

Very well done!

Thank you very much! Someone suggested that it looks a bit small - that there is a lot of empty wall above the wall display. I am trying to think of a way how to attach the lamp that seems to be missing here.

Maybe a strip of LED's? That could be cool.

I thought about lighting up the whole panel but I have never done electronics before. I think I will just do the lamp with paper. Maybe next time!