So I was digging through by pile of unfinished parts and found a small plastic bag with an unfinished resin original series Star Trek wall com with speaker fabric and little black and white push button I got from a fellow fan and prop builder, Bruce.
I thought it was a really cool little prop and I needed to do it some justice when I finished it. So I started thinking of what I could do with it. I could just paint it. but then what would I do with the cool little push button? I could make the red wall com. But that would need to be hung on a wall and I just couldn't think of a place to put it in my house. Somehow I thought that to do it proper justice I would have to build a captains chair to mount it to. I know, if you couldn't think of a place to hang a wall com where the heck are you going to put this honking piece of furniture? I dunno' yet, but it'll fit somewhere.
Then I picked up these great control buttons from Bruce.
And finally, I read through
this massive thread collecting all the information I could to start my own build. Then, with the help of a fellow builder and friend, we had all the chair base and control box parts CNC'd and we assembled them a week ago. Here are the major components set up (not attached to one another.)
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