Old Yankee Stadium

[callmegina]

Built this scale Yankee Stadium grandstand from two old kitchen cabinet drawers!

To make it, I:

1. Stood the drawers up on their fronts and bolted them together;

2. Cut a piece of molding and attached it all across the top to serve as the roof;

3. Carefully sawed out the sides to match the profile of the grandstand's three decks and support the deck panels;

4. Fitted all the square dowels to the spots where the columns needed to go;

5. Spray painted/primed the grandstand a matte black and the sides of it white, and spray-painted the column dowels deep Yankee blue;

6. Cut and test-fitted black foamcore to make the 6 deck panels (2 for each deck; a left side and a right side);

7. Found a good crowd graphic and scaled & shaded it, then had it professionally printed to exactly match the foamcore panels;

8. Found a good clipart graphic of the upper deck freize (facade) then scaled it and had it professionally printed on 8 or more pieces of white cardstock;

9. Spray-mounted the crowd panels to the foamcore;

10. Glue-gunned the finished deck panels into the drawer frame;

11. Glued strips of white posterboard along the edges of the upper and middle decks;

12. Glued Yankee deep blue construction paper to the bottom of the lower deck so that a little would show above field level to look like a sideline wall;

13. Glue-gunned the facade to the front edge of the roof;

14. Got two blue plastic uniform ribbon racks (the things that military people use to mount their service ribbons on their uniforms) and superglued clear plastic beads to them to look like roof light panels;

15. Glued some thin wire behind each light panel to look like support struts;

16. Put a rectangle of fiberfill behind each light panel;

17. Mounted a pair of battery-powered micro LED spotlights to the roof, hidden behind each light panel (when turned on, the LEDs shine between the bars of the light panels but it gives the illusion that the light is coming from the "bulbs" themselves. The fiberfill diffuses the light and keeps it from being too bright/annoying.). 

18. Got a packet of birthday cake topper American flags on toothpicks and painted the poles white. Then I crumpled each one with white glue on my fingertips, letting them dry so they look like they're fluttering. Glued them into the roof facade. 

[Daryl Collins]

That is just beyond, Coach! Good job!

Journey On!

[zak99b5]

Wow.  Fantastic work.

[MikeRavensFan8]

Looks great

[Long island EFL]

On 11/29/2023 at 5:04 PM, callmegina said:

Built this scale Yankee Stadium grandstand from two old kitchen cabinet drawers!

To make it, I:

1. Stood the drawers up on their fronts and bolted them together;

2. Cut a piece of molding and attached it all across the top to serve as the roof;

3. Carefully sawed out the sides to match the profile of the grandstand's three decks and support the deck panels;

4. Fitted all the square dowels to the spots where the columns needed to go;

5. Spray painted/primed the grandstand a matte black and the sides of it white, and spray-painted the column dowels deep Yankee blue;

6. Cut and test-fitted black foamcore to make the 6 deck panels (2 for each deck; a left side and a right side);

7. Found a good crowd graphic and scaled & shaded it, then had it professionally printed to exactly match the foamcore panels;

8. Found a good clipart graphic of the upper deck freize (facade) then scaled it and had it professionally printed on 8 or more pieces of white cardstock;

9. Spray-mounted the crowd panels to the foamcore;

10. Glue-gunned the finished deck panels into the drawer frame;

11. Glued strips of white posterboard along the edges of the upper and middle decks;

12. Glued Yankee deep blue construction paper to the bottom of the lower deck so that a little would show above field level to look like a sideline wall;

13. Glue-gunned the facade to the front edge of the roof;

14. Got two blue plastic uniform ribbon racks (the things that military people use to mount their service ribbons on their uniforms) and superglued clear plastic beads to them to look like roof light panels;

15. Glued some thin wire behind each light panel to look like support struts;

16. Put a rectangle of fiberfill behind each light panel;

17. Mounted a pair of battery-powered micro LED spotlights to the roof, hidden behind each light panel (when turned on, the LEDs shine between the bars of the light panels but it gives the illusion that the light is coming from the "bulbs" themselves. The fiberfill diffuses the light and keeps it from being too bright/annoying.). 

18. Got a packet of birthday cake topper American flags on toothpicks and painted the poles white. Then I crumpled each one with white glue on my fingertips, letting them dry so they look like they're fluttering. Glued them into the roof facade. 

Clever and so cool!

[Long island EFL]

On 11/29/2023 at 5:04 PM, callmegina said:

Built this scale Yankee Stadium grandstand from two old kitchen cabinet drawers!

To make it, I:

1. Stood the drawers up on their fronts and bolted them together;

2. Cut a piece of molding and attached it all across the top to serve as the roof;

3. Carefully sawed out the sides to match the profile of the grandstand's three decks and support the deck panels;

4. Fitted all the square dowels to the spots where the columns needed to go;

5. Spray painted/primed the grandstand a matte black and the sides of it white, and spray-painted the column dowels deep Yankee blue;

6. Cut and test-fitted black foamcore to make the 6 deck panels (2 for each deck; a left side and a right side);

7. Found a good crowd graphic and scaled & shaded it, then had it professionally printed to exactly match the foamcore panels;

8. Found a good clipart graphic of the upper deck freize (facade) then scaled it and had it professionally printed on 8 or more pieces of white cardstock;

9. Spray-mounted the crowd panels to the foamcore;

10. Glue-gunned the finished deck panels into the drawer frame;

11. Glued strips of white posterboard along the edges of the upper and middle decks;

12. Glued Yankee deep blue construction paper to the bottom of the lower deck so that a little would show above field level to look like a sideline wall;

13. Glue-gunned the facade to the front edge of the roof;

14. Got two blue plastic uniform ribbon racks (the things that military people use to mount their service ribbons on their uniforms) and superglued clear plastic beads to them to look like roof light panels;

15. Glued some thin wire behind each light panel to look like support struts;

16. Put a rectangle of fiberfill behind each light panel;

17. Mounted a pair of battery-powered micro LED spotlights to the roof, hidden behind each light panel (when turned on, the LEDs shine between the bars of the light panels but it gives the illusion that the light is coming from the "bulbs" themselves. The fiberfill diffuses the light and keeps it from being too bright/annoying.). 

18. Got a packet of birthday cake topper American flags on toothpicks and painted the poles white. Then I crumpled each one with white glue on my fingertips, letting them dry so they look like they're fluttering. Glued them into the roof facade. 

Would love playing on that field with the Jets-Giants! 

[Long island EFL]

On 11/29/2023 at 5:04 PM, callmegina said:

Built this scale Yankee Stadium grandstand from two old kitchen cabinet drawers!

To make it, I:

1. Stood the drawers up on their fronts and bolted them together;

2. Cut a piece of molding and attached it all across the top to serve as the roof;

3. Carefully sawed out the sides to match the profile of the grandstand's three decks and support the deck panels;

4. Fitted all the square dowels to the spots where the columns needed to go;

5. Spray painted/primed the grandstand a matte black and the sides of it white, and spray-painted the column dowels deep Yankee blue;

6. Cut and test-fitted black foamcore to make the 6 deck panels (2 for each deck; a left side and a right side);

7. Found a good crowd graphic and scaled & shaded it, then had it professionally printed to exactly match the foamcore panels;

8. Found a good clipart graphic of the upper deck freize (facade) then scaled it and had it professionally printed on 8 or more pieces of white cardstock;

9. Spray-mounted the crowd panels to the foamcore;

10. Glue-gunned the finished deck panels into the drawer frame;

11. Glued strips of white posterboard along the edges of the upper and middle decks;

12. Glued Yankee deep blue construction paper to the bottom of the lower deck so that a little would show above field level to look like a sideline wall;

13. Glue-gunned the facade to the front edge of the roof;

14. Got two blue plastic uniform ribbon racks (the things that military people use to mount their service ribbons on their uniforms) and superglued clear plastic beads to them to look like roof light panels;

15. Glued some thin wire behind each light panel to look like support struts;

16. Put a rectangle of fiberfill behind each light panel;

17. Mounted a pair of battery-powered micro LED spotlights to the roof, hidden behind each light panel (when turned on, the LEDs shine between the bars of the light panels but it gives the illusion that the light is coming from the "bulbs" themselves. The fiberfill diffuses the light and keeps it from being too bright/annoying.). 

18. Got a packet of birthday cake topper American flags on toothpicks and painted the poles white. Then I crumpled each one with white glue on my fingertips, letting them dry so they look like they're fluttering. Glued them into the roof facade. 

Hope you will add the Bleacher Creatures! Our boy Matt Zoo-York grew up right down the block from River and 161 Street when the Bronx was Burning! He will love this!

[Coach Shawn]

Thats amazing