- November 15th, 2015, 7:47 am#4848124
The back wall doesn't bug me a lot. Due to its placement up against surrounding buildings on two sides, you never see it from that angle in the films, and even when I visited the actual firehouse last year, I only shot it from two sides. It never occurred to me to go into the alleyways and see it from those other vantage points. (Although after my trip, I heard there's an interesting-sounding eyeball mosaic in the pavement in the alleyway behind. Scroll down through the comments on this site: http://www.everywhereist.com/hook-and-l ... stbusters/)
It may be challenging to modify that rear wall due to placement/functionality of the hinge. Maybe just make a free-standing wall to put in front of it and then move when you're opening it up.
As for the things I plan to modify, here are a few...
Janine's hair
reverse the placement of Janine's phone and computer
remove the tiny containment unit altogether, since I spent a lot of time, money and effort making my own basement dio
apply 'burning Vigo photo' stickers onto tiles instead of onto wall, figure out a way to suspend them
(possibly order a duplicate set of the stickers or copy them myself)
reverse-engineer details from the ground floor like the lockers, alarm bell, etc. and add them to my existing garage dio
fourth locker for Winston (note to self: check movie, I think there may be more than four total)
replace green slime with regular bathroom floor tiles
possibly replace pink slime with regular sidewalk tiles
adjustments to front doors and sign to make them more movie-accurate
different tiles for over doors saying Hook & Ladder 8, Ghostbusters Inc., possibly Ghoststoppers/Ghostblasters just for fun
I do wish there was something that could be done to flop the darkroom so it would match the movie better (door on the left), but I think it might be better to just free-build a small vignette for that scene which combines a darkroom and a toilet, and of course the De Pasto 4000 printer.
And is it just me, or does it bother anyone else that on the second floor there's a potbelly stove with a chimney pipe, yet the chimney does not extend up through the third floor and out to the roof?
Plus, what is up with that videogame? It's got legs like a pinball machine, but it's a vertical cabinet (with a pixelated Stay-Puft face on the screen). I've never seen a videogame like that before.
Alex
Michael Scott wrote:And then there's this:(I quoted Michael's entire post since we're over to a new page after Smeghead's comment.)
Granted if you display the HQ closed up against a cabinet or wall, not a big deal. Some that plan to include this in their layouts with modulars and other sets are upset. I'm not mad about it, but I do plan to see if I can change it without affecting the hinges or interior layout. I've got the facade I built a couple months ago that I can possibly use to mod it, as long as the colors match.
Your thoughts? Also, after seeing the interior, exterior, and accessories, what do you plan to add or modify when you get the set?
The back wall doesn't bug me a lot. Due to its placement up against surrounding buildings on two sides, you never see it from that angle in the films, and even when I visited the actual firehouse last year, I only shot it from two sides. It never occurred to me to go into the alleyways and see it from those other vantage points. (Although after my trip, I heard there's an interesting-sounding eyeball mosaic in the pavement in the alleyway behind. Scroll down through the comments on this site: http://www.everywhereist.com/hook-and-l ... stbusters/)
It may be challenging to modify that rear wall due to placement/functionality of the hinge. Maybe just make a free-standing wall to put in front of it and then move when you're opening it up.
As for the things I plan to modify, here are a few...
Janine's hair
reverse the placement of Janine's phone and computer
remove the tiny containment unit altogether, since I spent a lot of time, money and effort making my own basement dio
apply 'burning Vigo photo' stickers onto tiles instead of onto wall, figure out a way to suspend them
(possibly order a duplicate set of the stickers or copy them myself)
reverse-engineer details from the ground floor like the lockers, alarm bell, etc. and add them to my existing garage dio
fourth locker for Winston (note to self: check movie, I think there may be more than four total)
replace green slime with regular bathroom floor tiles
possibly replace pink slime with regular sidewalk tiles
adjustments to front doors and sign to make them more movie-accurate
different tiles for over doors saying Hook & Ladder 8, Ghostbusters Inc., possibly Ghoststoppers/Ghostblasters just for fun
I do wish there was something that could be done to flop the darkroom so it would match the movie better (door on the left), but I think it might be better to just free-build a small vignette for that scene which combines a darkroom and a toilet, and of course the De Pasto 4000 printer.
And is it just me, or does it bother anyone else that on the second floor there's a potbelly stove with a chimney pipe, yet the chimney does not extend up through the third floor and out to the roof?
Plus, what is up with that videogame? It's got legs like a pinball machine, but it's a vertical cabinet (with a pixelated Stay-Puft face on the screen). I've never seen a videogame like that before.
Alex
What a knockabout of pure fun that was!