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sockgoblin:
Been scheming for a month now, Im going to build a full sized cabinet using a 19 inch LCD. It will be a slightly fatter Kneivel Woody.

I have some previous, in that I made a control panel in 2006 , but it never really got used and ended up under my study desk ,this time the cabinet will be situated in the playroom or in the kitchen diner and will act as an mp3 juke box as well as an arcade machine.

I will have this thing finished by Christmas.

To speed things along I am goign to use a prebuilt control panel a scorpion panel built by digitalsystemsdesign in the UK. Im going to try to disguise the fact its a pre built panel I dont like the X arcade type setup. ( more later)

Anyway the reason to post here is to ask for support . If I lose momentum I will not finish the build so appreciate any help and advise and the occasional KITA.

cant work out how to post pics

Le Chuck:
Well you can post the pics on a 3rd party photo site like photobucket then click he direct link that is given and insert it like so
--- Code: ---[img]linktopick[/img]
--- End code ---

or you can post them in the stickied photo thread by clicking the plus sign by "attachments and other options" and the click "browse" and select your pic.  Then click post.  Return to that post and right click the attachment and select "copy image location" then paste that into the above example.  Finally you can just attach the files directly into your thread and folks can just click to view them. 

A good way to learn to do all this is to click "quote" on a thread that does what you want to do and then reading the code as it will be written out in the reply box. 

Best of luck and stay on schedule!

sockgoblin:
design and mock ups

Ive spent some time mocking up my cabinet ,in particular as I am using a pre bought Control Panel Ive been trying to work out how to blend it into the cabinet

initially I planned to pull the top of the panel and build it into the cabinet with the pinball buttons on the outside of the cabinet. However the manufacturer assures me he has glued and dowelled the top on..Doh.

I have a cunning plan I will sandwich the panel between two slabs of mdf and will match the t moulding

like this photoshopped Kneivel cab

sockgoblin:
I have set up the height of the CP using a combination of Man Utd VHS tapes and PC games !

and then used cardboard templates to test the fit.

This is starting to take over my working day , I am constantly sketching and visualising layouts..

yotsuya:
Inspired by those tapes, go with a Man U color scheme.

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