/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>768838
The grates, lights, and greeblies are bought.

The upholstery is an issue. Film sets need to meet the fire code, so you can't just stuff paper in there. I'd make rough wood molds for isolation foam elements which then get wrapped in whatever cheap faux leather you can get in bulk. It's weeks of work, but it'll stand up to a close up.

As for the plastic elements, that's vacuum molded, no way around it. You can rig a small vacumold with some heat lamps and a hoover. But it would be so small, you would have to construct the structures from smaller elements.

This won't work for the hatch. And you want it to be sturdy because it can't show wear after 20 takes. I'd build a wood frame, cover it in half an inch of high density foam, cut the design into the foam, and then varnish it with a truck bed coat or whatever the camera likes.

Then build a solid twin rail with suspended rollers holding the door. The mechanism should slide easily but snap in place into notches for open and closed. And it should survive a tired grip carrying 80 pounds of cable stumbling into it at a bad angle.