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rockyrocket:
So I have always liked the simple lines and artwork on both the caberet and cocktail flavours of tempest, and decided it was time to build one.
I would of just done a straight clone of a caberet but finding a source of a CPO was a failure, so a redraw was the only way which then led me to think do I really need another cab with a spinner and vertical monitor as my tron already has both?.
With this thought in mind and lusting after spacie`s "multivector" CPO from klov a tempest/AAE cab with a horizontal monitor was decided upon.
I`m a big fan of simple graphics so this was what I came up with.

Unusually for me instead of just eyeballing everything as I go along everything was first drawn in illustrator, which means for the first time even before I cut the first bit of wood I have everything here ready.
All the artwork is printed, I have some nice grainy wood like laminate and even the glass is here, I also have this week off work so it should be a nice quick build!.
Anyway not much real to show yet apart from the control panel is taking shape, I like using 8 or 10mm perspex for panels then clamp this between some straight edges and go at it with a heat gun.
The stick is screwed on with short screws and bonded with epoxy, so far this has worked fine for me, the first one I did like this is still going after about four years.
The plan at the moment is to just use AAE and no front end but to be honest I have not thought too much about the software side yet and it may all change yet.
Oh and if you need a tempest CPO I ended up doing one and you can find it here...
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,122399.0.html
So here are some final shots of the finished cab at home with some friends :)

Santoro:
Looks good.. the CP bend looks factory clean.  Watching with interest...

rockyrocket:
The great British weather allowed me to get a bit of this done today so the sides are cut and the inner face laminated.
I started to route away all the areas to be glued when yep it rained - so no photos sorry.
So one thing worth mentioning is the CPO in that I must of had some epoxy on my fingers and touched it as overnight some evil alchemy took place.
If you look at the picture you may make out some raised areas where the laminate coating has reacted and formed hard raised areas.
This is not the disaster it would have been as I already had decided to reprint my CPO.
This was doubly lucky as the CPO tore when I drilled through it, maybe my hole saw is getting dull but that's the first time its happened to me.
When getting my side art printed I noticed that pixart who I use, have a "walk on" laminate option but a minimum size of 1m squared for £36 something so I took a chance and placed an order.
The prints arrived today and although they are not the thick 3m stuff you will get from this old game etc they are certainly about what I got from game on graphics this time, and for the same price as the GOG job I got 1 square meter.
It remains to be seen how long it lasts but as a cheaper option for us euro`s its worth considering, saying that I would always choose the 3M stuff given the choice.
Pixart can be found here and are in Italy based...
http://www.pixartprinting.co.uk/wide-format/printing-self-adhesive-pvc/flat-surface-adhesive/

emphatic:
Lovely. :cheers:

mgb:
AWESOME!!
 This is looking great. I love that control panel. the bent acrylic is perfect. the layout and graphics are perfect.

so the acrylic actually is the cp, not just a covering?? niiiice!!

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