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Ping of Pong (the recycled ping pong table cab) - Actually all the way done now.
drventure:
Rats. Humidity can do that to clear coat sometimes. That sucks.
I still love this whole build philosophy though! Heck it'd certainly still make somebodies day to get it for a birthday or something...
Ond:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 24, 2011, 10:48:25 pm ---It looks worse than yesterday when it only had the first coat on it....and it has 4 coats plus clearcoat. :badmood:
I'm gonna focus on artwork for now. If the artwork comes out well, I'll feel like putting the effort into repainting the cab.
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Don't worry about it, like you say, go work on something else for a bit and then redo it. The break you give the paint work will let it dry thoroughly and make a cut back to a usable surface more effective. Got an orbital sander? Work goes fast with em.
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: drventure on May 24, 2011, 11:22:14 pm ---Rats. Humidity can do that to clear coat sometimes. That sucks.
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That might have something to do with it. It's been like monsoon season here.
Usually it's my impatience when it comes to clearcoat. Either putting it on too thick or not waiting for the paint to set long enough.
I've screwed up enough times that I thought I'd learned my lessons.
--- Quote from: Ond on May 24, 2011, 11:32:19 pm ---The break you give the paint work will let it dry thoroughly and make a cut back to a usable surface more effective. Got an orbital sander? Work goes fast with em.
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I don't want to lose all the texture if I don't have to.
I plan to leave work early and spray semi-gloss black overtop the clear.
If that does't work, it might end up back on the curb. ;D
I know how I'm mounting the control panel and making the coin door.
If I can get the paint straightened out in a reasonable amount of time, I could have the entire cab together tonight except for artwork.
BadMouth:
1:00pm.....GO!!!!!!!
First up, repainted with satin black. No prep, just painted over the clearcoat.
It's still not even enough to look good in bright sun, but it's caused by small variations in texture, not a color difference.
While that and the CP was drying, I worked on the bezel.
Tinkered with it in paint.net, then used a program called PosterRazor to print it in multi-page poster form. http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/
(It actually prints it to pdf, then you use another program to print the pdf)
In not having much of a plan, eyeballing the monitor location, then cutting the bezel to fit that, I never considered the dimensions of the original artwork.
I could have ended up with too little area at the top or too much at the bottom. Luckily my eyeballing was pretty close. Just had to shrink it down and stretchit a tiny bit.
Then I trimmed them and glued them onto my project board bezel with some spray adhesive.
Not perfect, but not too bad for printing a bezel on an inkjet printer. (I used fairly thick matte finish photo paper)
Looking pretty good under plexi (yes that's duct tape at the top and bottom)
Even better in the cab:
Nothing fancy for the speakers. Just cut out a hole for them to fire through. Didn't bother with a grill and I doubt anyone will ever notice.
Here's how the CP is mounted. I did a lousy job lining up the rollers and need to redo them.
(The CP was clamped and glued overnight before putting the corner braces on there. I think it will be strong enough)
Went with a single slot coin door (because I didn't have enough parts to do a standard one. :P )
It's just a piece of textured abs plastic for the base, 8-liner button with a home-printed insert for the coin button.
The coin return area is a square 8-liner style button with the guts removed, lens painted black, then the lens superglued in backwards to give it a little recess.
It's mounted higher than I wanted because there was a brace inside that I had to miss (the whole lack of planning thing......)
9:00pm....STOP! :P
I really wanted to get the marquee done before posting, but can't figure out how to get my printer to use paper longer than legal size (old HP photosmart). I'll research it some more tomorrow. Anyways, here it is as of tonight (the basement lights are much kinder than the bright sunlight):
I used some of the bumper sticker paper I had to print out the kickplate art, but decided that I didn't like it.
It's just too light compared to the rest of the cab. I considered printing out the side art on bumper sticker paper and piecing it together, but I didn't like how faded the black on the bezel came out when I printed it. It looks a lot better under plexi, but the sides wouldn't have that benefit.
The area between the bezel & CP still needs some work. I'm hoping to find some type of flexible rubber strip to put between them.
The ping pong table edging is too stiff and won't give me the angle I want.
It's got plenty of imperfections, but given that I've just thrown it together without much of a plan, I'm pretty proud of it. :D
BobA:
Looks great. :applaud: :applaud: Considering you are making it from a PP table and what you have on hand it is better than great.