Steampunk reactor project

What the heck, time for some possible ego-crushing.

I know it's not the best of bases, but I thought I'd put up some pics of the one-man base I've been working on for a while.


I haven't really done anything with the entrance room yet, as I'm not really sure what I want to go there. So right now, it's just some banner and a few other decorative items.


I've only got a 2x2 energy room so far, so on one side of it is the 'base scrubber' which is collecting all the dust and stuff and storing it in a holding tank.


Next to the holding tank is the generator. I'm trying to go for something of a steampunk look (which you may have guessed by the title of the base), so I've got various tanks and retro monitor in various parts of the base.


One shot of the control room. The 'sewer' computer is, RP-wise, the original computer banks for the base.


Another shot of the control room. I rather liked the look of the logo holograph inside the holodisplay control item, so I've kept that despite redesigning the room a few times.


A shot of one of the workshops. I'm actually standing on a second floor here. The turbines in the back room of the shot are actually supposed to be a conveyor belt (it's the best I could come up with), and on the left side, I built a 'clean room'. I have the worktables in there more for aesthetic reasons then to actually build a lot of things, but I don't have the control to put the last worktable in there yet, so I've just got the tech podium as a placeholder.


A better shot of the clean room.


Looking inside the clean room. The logos were covered up with a bunch of the blank paintings from the 'wall items' section. It took a lot of placing, but overall, I like the look.


A look at the second floor of the workshop.


This is a 7x7 decorative room which will eventually house a 'steampunk' nuclear reactor (or as close to one as I can make with existing items). What you're seeing is going to be a walkway around the exterior of the room.


A picture from inside the walkway.


I covered up the SG logos with small light columns. It makes the walkway pretty bright, but it was a lot quicker and cheaper then stacking even more desks or trying to use blank paintings to cover up the logos. I'm not sold on the white desks as that pillar yet, but I needed something there for now.

Very creative. Haven’t seen this done before. Going to subscribe to this thread, looking forward to the updates.

Thanks!

Got some more pics.


Overhead view of the base. (Careful observers may note that while there is a teleport room, I haven't shown a pic of that yet. That's because I haven't done a thing with it yet, other then putting in telepads.)


After many experiments with various tech items, I decided I might as well use the existing 'brass coloured' items, aka the sewer items, as the large part of the reactor. I did, however, end up placing many thousands of Prestige worth of large Jacob's ladders. This view is through the walkway glass.


An 'up in the air' shot of the reactor. (Hover is a godsend for base building.) Here you can see quite a few of the Jacob's ladders that I placed.


A close-up of the 'core' of the reactor.

I plan on changing the floor tile at some point, but right now, the tech-grid layout makes it so much easier to properly line items up.

The reactor is nice.

Wow I wish I was that talented with base building. You have an impressive setup.

I'm stalled a bit on a couple of parts of the base, but I finally took a swing at doing something with the teleporters. Mind you, I've only done this to one so far, more for "Hrm, do I like this? Let me leave it like this for a couple days and see."



Yeah, using more sewer items. Mind you, if there some sort of large, tripod-mounted spheroid tank to cover the top of the teleporter, I'd use that instead. I might end up covering the 'pad of the teleporter with something eventually, we'll see. I'm also thinking the beacons need a jacob's ladder behind each of them.

Ha! Very cool telepad.

I love what you have done. I have always liked the look of the sewer items myself. They just look awesome. I have built an underground submarine base using them and the Iron Giant. You can build some nice stuff using them. Good job and keep it up.

edit: I may just have to borrow that telepad design...

Wow that looks really cool

The reactor is awesome. But I find myself very impressed with what you did here:



...I love that lighting-as-support-column.

Exactly! The only problem that I find with happy accedents is that you have the hardest time doing it again or telling people how you did that. I still love the happy accedent though

Some more pics, as I add a little more to the base:



A shot of the 'Mark I Time Sled'. I swear I've seen something similar, almost certainly in another thread on this forum, but damned if I can remember where.



A diagonal-rear view of the time sled.



Mostly finished with the decorating of this teleport bay. I'm going to have to enlarge the base again to add another bay, but that's going to have to be on the list after "upgrade the Basic Generator to the Turbine Generator".