A Garage For A Y-wing PART 1: Expanding the Rebel Base Diorama

May 2020

The main focus in my Star Wars room is my rebel base display. This started out with an X-wing, a beat-up vintage Millennium Falcon and a snow speeder years ago and slowly has grown again and again. I’m pretty sure I’ve run out of space to add even one more vehicle (What will I do when the Rogue One General Merrick X-wing Fighter is released?.

My Rebel Base Around 2012 or so. Adorable, right?

My Rebel Base February 2022 – Just a little bit of expansion since 2012.

Over the years I’ve begun to add walls and control rooms and a pilot ready room (still need to finish that, now that I think about it). But I’ve always kept things on the ground level, as it were. Then a couple years ago I began buying Project Bricks and started building walls. I even got brave enough to tackle an homage to the control room from the Disney Parks attraction, Star Tours. Having this control room suspended from the display shelf above set off a light bulb in my head: Start building UP instead of left to right.

I wanted to add another control room to the display, this time on the top “shelf.” But instead of trying to wedge one in behind one of the rebel starships I decided to put it ON TOP. So I picked up a box of Project Bricks and set to work.

I guess the easy answer to my problem is “just add another shelf on top” but that would put things too close to the room’s window that’s just above the top of the display. And besides, I had some packaging material that I really wanted to try out and this project seemed like a good way to do that. (Shout out to diorama builders who see packing material as more than just packing material). So, I decided to build a garage with a control room on top and I chose the right side, above a Y-wing fighter to do it: