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Spongebob Imagination Station *** TOO Long - DONE!!! (Sorta)
Dervacumen:
And after cleaning up my rough cuts to what I'll have to call acceptable I repainted the door and frame. The bottom of the frame is not perfectly square but once it's installed you would have to get on your hands and knees to examine it. If you do that, then yes you'll see it's not perfect. And I'll call you a :tool:
So it turns out that I wanted to bring out the color of the buttons and t-molding a bit and lo-and-behold, I found what is almost a perfect match. Now I wonder if I sould incorporate this spray color in to other parts of the cab. At this time the sides will be devoid of artwork. Maybe that will change...
Advice on the coin door in two tones? I tried to show what it will look like against the pink of the cabinet. I think it looks nifty.
Dervacumen:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on August 16, 2010, 05:27:51 pm ---I agree with GoingIncognito, great artwork!
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Kinda surprised and blushing at the kudos on this, thanks folks! I tried for many moons to master Illustrator and Photoshop, even tried tutorials and it just made no sense (to me). Then one day I noticed a free copy of Corel Paint Shop Pro for download and found it very easy to use. I scoured the 'net for some beginning images and winged it from there. Got a font, learned how to isolate images...all in about two-three days work. There are a lot of things I would have done if I could figure out how but I had to keep reminding myself this is for a 6 year old, not me. Well, *kinda* me.
Dervacumen:
--- Quote from: Roo on August 16, 2010, 11:20:12 pm ---And thank you for posting the detailed pics of the speaker panel! I am in the middle of trying to figure out my speaker panel, and your pics are very helpful.
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The funniest thing about this is that when I stared to do this panel, I couldn't really figure out how I wanted to do it. So I did a search on the forums and found...an idea I posted a few years ago. I had a good laugh tho. Sad but true. So what kind of hypocrite would I be if I didn't use my own suggestion?
The original idea and prototype came to me in 1987 when I tricked out my school locker (yes, we had lockers in the stone ages) with a Sony Walkman and built in speaker system.
Dervacumen:
Speak er panel is complete. I stapled the grill on and covered up the staples with these little plastic jewels I had laying around. I originally counted that I needed nine, and I thought I had nine, but when I glued them in place I was one short. So I modified my plan and swapped some of the pink jewels for translucent ones. I would have preferred all pink but there was no way I was going on a scavenger hunt to find this same brand of plastic baubles. Anyway it turned out looking better than I expected, really. I wish I took clear photos.
I couldn't wait to see what it looked like. I stuck it in place, temporarily taped up the marquee...It's actually coming together. :applaud:
Dervacumen:
No wonder it's taken so many years to get this project off the ground. It's been 3 months since I've found the time to work on the cabinet but I've dabbled a bit here and there mostly over the past two weekends.
I got the marquee light installed and wired - a cold cathode tube I had laying around from my last project. I also wired up the speaker panel and ran wiring down the back after I cut and installed the top back portion of the cabinet. It's a permanent panel. The access panel is not yet built. I tried a few things but nothing on this cabinet is square so I shelved it for a bit. I'll do that last. I also got a small power switch from Radios shack and drilled a countersunk hole for installation after painting. On my full sized cabinet I had the power button on top, but with this short cabinet I figured things would inevitably get put on top of it. By mounting the switch on the back and countersinking it I hope it will prevent accidentally powering it on.
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