Where the bugs at? Sci-Fi Corridors

   I've been searching for some time for a way to make some sci-fi corridors in order to play some DC5 games, but until now I haven't been very successful.
   I was looking for something that I could use, something quick, effective, cheap, and something I could replicate (meaning, a single piece that would work good, but that I couldn't get any more of, would be useless).
   Then I decided that if I had spent the same amount of time making them the "hard way" that I did on trying to think of an easy way, I would have miles of the things done already.  So I just resolved to make some.
    Obviously that's when the easy way I'd been searching for appeared.

My original ones that they don't seem to make anymore

The current ones found at Menard's

    These are support strips for containers, you're meant to mount them and then attach the containers.  Very nice and tidy, assuming you have anything that needs to go in containers like that.  I don't.
    But while pondering is I did, and where I could put them if I did, I suddenly saw it; the bracket thing basically was a corridor wall, it just needed backing!

  So, cut the bracket in half, attach some foamcore to the back of the bracket, add wooden columns on either end to facilitate an easy match, and boom! there's a wall!
   I noticed for no reason some metal shelf brackets I had in the rafters, and I thought "I bet that would fit on top of the wall", and it did!  It actually fits exactly, which is great.  They're also metal, so magnets stick, which should make them really good for 'Tink Tokens to travel on!

 

   The floor was easy, a hardboard piece, Drywall mesh tape applied, then a plastic grid over top for the tile delineation, and paint.
    Cutting out that grid is very time consuming, and really hard on the fingers, so I'm experimenting with some other ways to do that.

  I'm trying out ways to get a very similar effect, but with just paint.  If  I can work it out, it should make the construction of floor tiles a fairly fast and simple matter.
  If not, then I guess I'll need to resort to the cutting of the grid again.

    Other than just the corridors, I also need Wall and Ceiling Vents for the alien bugs to come out of. Again, I spent a lot of time thinking when the solution was just sitting there the whole time.  I'd purchased these frame things some time ago (long enough ago that I can't remember what I bought them for).  All I had to do was snip the "ears" off, then glue in a piece of window screen, and done!  No need to even paint them!
    I did glue them onto a 1/4" hardboard block, painted black, just to give them the ability to stand up.  Then I noticed they would fit right in the center section of the walls, but would need a notch cut-out to accommodate one of the ridge lines on the wall.  That worked great since it helps to hold them in place.

The sword guy is the only 28mm figure I had in the garage for this picture.

    Painting the walls was, in keeping with my plan, simple.  Spray them black.  Spray them a little  less thoroughly with London Fog (a grey/brown).  Then spray them with Nutmeg from an overhead angle.  Done!   The black provides shadow where the fog missed, and the overhead only Nutmeg gives a nice shading effect for little effort.

In better light, and with an appropriate figure

They also look pretty cool standing upside down, but then I couldn't use the top rail for the alien movement, so I can't do that.

I noticed that those mounting holes looked about the same size as some LEDs I had, so I drilled them out (a fancy term for poking through the foamboard with a paintbrush handle), and stuck in the lights.  They fit exactly!
  So here's some shots of me testing that lighting out.

  Overall, it's coming along nicely.  Once I get this piece done and establish the "pattern", more will quickly follow.