Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers?

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Pixelhugger:
As I'm preparing the website for launch I got thinking it would be helpful to know what other people would like to see.

So far I'm planning

A "blog-like" construction journal with pics

A finished gallery showing all the cabs details

An artwork section

An FE section to show the interface/skin

A section to thank people involved in the project

An R+D section to show the design process and evolution from embarassingly contorted bad napkin sketches to final 3D files

A links section for all the helpful stuff I've stumbled upon over the years

A store section for plans, art etc. Though I think it'd all be free. Unless I offer prebent 3 sided marquees for sale. ::)

Any other ideas?

GreenKnight37:

--- Quote from: Pixelhugger on November 28, 2005, 09:23:52 pm ---
Any other ideas?

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Hot girls in bikinis standing next to the cab, just like they do for car magazines? ;)

(...silently awaits the joystick jokes to follow...)

DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: Pixelhugger on November 28, 2005, 09:23:52 pm ---
Any other ideas?

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Yeah. Make the blog a perpetual "Under construction" site. Put a "Countdown to completion" clock that constantly resets every day. Lastly, drop the finished gallery. Don't EVER put up a fully completed pic of the cab....it'd only take away from the experience

;D ;D ;D ;D

Pixelhugger:
No mockup this time on the button. This shows the artwork from Mamemarquees installed and backlit on one of the large navigation buttons.

I'm not at all happy with the almost amber color of the tungsten "white" stock lamp that Happ ships with these buttons. So I guess I'm gonna have to moonlight some more and but the white wedge LEDs they offer.

You can't really see the yellowness of the lamp in these images but it is very present in person. I'm also hoping the LEDs will be brighter, although I am happy with how much illumination I'm actually getting as is.

Pixelhugger:
On an unrelated note, I decided to redrill the CP in MDF. I was bothered by the blow out I had on the bottom of the particle board and think that the thing will look a whole lot nicer in MDF. In realizing that I may be raising the hood on the CP frequently to show people how it works, I really couldn't bear showing the blown out surface of the particle board that looks more like a lunar landscape than a control panel.

So thats getting redone. No big deal time wise. But when I was test fitting the plastic over it with the artwork in place I noticed that for all the polishing I had done on the lexan it was STILL hazy. In fact the haze extends far beyond the trackball bullnose since I had feathered out the sanding/buffing. Turns out you don't see it NEARLY as much with the milky white backing film on, but once removed it is blatantly visible at any angle other than head on. ARGH! I guess Lexan doesn't take a polish like acrylic. Must be too soft. Any advice to fix this would be MUUUUUCH appreciated. If, as I suspect, it's not gonna get any better I'm gonna have to redrill that as well.

All this at a time when I tough I was a couple of hours away from a finished CP. >:( Seems the biggest problem with this project is that as it grows (and becomes more expensive) I can tolerate fewer and fewer imprefections. I keep thinking "I've come this far..." or "I've already spent so much..." that I can't settle for anything that's really gonna bug me long term.

Soooooo...... looks like I'll be salvaging a piece of acrylic from my marquee bending graveyard. Bummer is that the only stuff wide enough is 3/16" thick so the bullnose won't be quite as deep. Sigh.

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