DIY Sim Rig!

Last week I started a project I've been wanting to do for a long time. I've watched videos and done my research, but now it was time to build it. You might wonder what a "Sim Rig" is, well, that's not weird, because they aren't the most usual thing somebody talks about. It is essentially just a frame in which you can mount a racing wheel and pedals to and have a TV in the front and a seat in the back to kind of simulate a car. 

 So, I started with my dad's old office chair, (which was broken btw). I took the bottom-end off and did some minor modifications involving a hammer and some clever engineering...ish.

I then layed out all of my planks that my dad supplied me with. Him being a carpenter, his access to planks is not as limited as others. Then I started to arrange them. This was all I had to work with and some other small pieces I found laying around.

I then mocked up how I wanted it to turn out, and screwed it all together. I had a plan in my head before I started working on this, but that quickly changed because of the lack of materials, but I made it work just fine. 

Now we can see that this thing really starts to take shape. The long planks sticking up from the base are the ones I'm mounting the steering wheel on. And we can see in this image that i've figured out how to attach the back to the rest of the rig, with a little help from my dad this wasn't as hard. 

After some time of sanding and mocking up where everything was going, we were nearing the finish.

And then, by the end of the day I started to paint the rig. It only took 2 layers of some cheap black paint, which was nice. 

And voila, here it is in all of it's glory! Although this thing really fills up my room, I think it was worth it, because I'll be having a lot of fun in this thing. The seat isn't mounted directly to the base, it is just sat down on to small planks which makes it able to move back and fourth depending on your size. 

Here is another close up of the rig. And I would like to thank my dad for helping me with this fun little project, because without him it would have been much worse and probably alot more inconvenient. 

The whole thing was built in one day and it turned out better then I expected :)