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

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jdjuggler:
I'm wondering what stain/paint you will use for the "brown/grey" part that is shown on the front below the CP and along the bottom front edges?
I've often struggled with the idea of stained cabinet as I haven't seen many that I've liked. The entire cabinet stained the same color does not appeal to me.
Specifically, what I like about your color idea is that basically the sides are stained dark and the center portion (monitor, CP, coin area) is mostly black. I think I like that idea! And, it also appears to be a dark color stain...Nice!
Also, I'd love to steal some of those curves in your design whenever I get around to building my cab.
Great design.
JD

ras2a:
OMFG! You're cabinet design is absolutely STUNNING! - It looks truly beautiful! I am now EXCEEDINLY jealous but would love to see how you're cab actually turns out. Like other have said, it's inspirational and is by far the BEST design I've ever seen (thus far)

Please, I implore you...make it NOW

Craig

Pixelhugger:
genericeric- I do have a number of pics of the new nav panel... but they are still just renderings and I'm close enough to having the real thing that I wanted to wait to post actual photos since I think people are going to start getting bored if I keep posting mockups! ::)

jdjuggler- I'm glad you like the different use of color across the cab. To answer your questions about the stains...

The sides will be solid hardwood. The large side panels will be New Zealand Rosewood... a hardwood with a natural color similar to aged cherry or koa. I will most likely finish this with no stain, probably a water based urethane or hand rubbed oil. The smaller darker sides that flank the kick-panel (coin area) will be black walnut. I really wanted to go with ebony, but since it is actually priced by the OUNCE - (forget about board foot) - and generally only available in pieces the size of a toilet paper tube I decided against it. If the walnut doesn't finish dark enough without a stain I will probably mix a custom tinted aneline dye to get it closer to ebony.

ras2a- :) :) :) I can't tell you how satisfying it is to hear words like "beautiful" and "stunning"
associated with an arcade cabinet. Construction was to begin tomorrow on the first portion. Now I am going out of town so it'll have to wait until next weekend. BLAST IT!!! My wife will be out of town with our kids for a week in august... so I'll hopefully be far enough along by then to make some big progress. It's such an overwhelming task with all the unusual details I plan on incorporating, that Im breaking the build down into sub projects...

Navigation panel
Marquee
Instruction panel (mini-marquee)
Cab frame
Metal side art(??)

dema:
I still think your design is the best I've seen and I can't wait to see your progress. My wife and daughter left for about 5 days so that now gives me enough time to make some progress on my cabinet. I've drawn out the templates for my rotating control panel and I'm going to make a mockup of the sides of the cabinet. Hopefully I'll have them cut out and a general frame by the end of this weekend, but with this being my first project I know I'm going to be slow.

I love your idea of having console buttons but I'm going to stay with the Mamewah front end.

Keep us posted. I'm extremely interested in seeing what you accomplish.

Pixelhugger:
OK I promised myself I wouldn't do this, but I really need feedback. I'm attaching what is perhaps the cheesiest cornball mockup I've done yet for this project...(I just can't bring myself to model any more stuff to do this right) The blue lines are placeholders for CCFL lights which will be placed beneath oval vent-like slots in the plexi. The black line is a placeholder for a slot load DVD combo drive. All plexi edges will be bullnosed and polished.

Anyway, please look past the bad perspective and overall cartoony composite of this pic.... I need to get opinions on whether I should keep or loose the PC Tach (it charts intensity of CPU operation)

PC Tach pros IMO:

Cool chrome
Cool instrumental feel, kind of makes the nav panel dashboard-like
Interesting gimmickery
Retro.. sort of

PC Tach cons IMO:

Too aftermarkety?
Too automotive?
Faceplate doesn't match the style of the rest of the cab artwork and detail (my biggest concern).
Too gimmicky?
Too "uh, dude, what is THAT doing there.... that's LAME!"

So what does everyone else think? I'm too close to this to be objective now.

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