| Main > Project Announcements |
| My first build: "Mimic" |
| << < (23/29) > >> |
| Ropi Jo:
Clicked a link to this in another post. Your workmanship is outstanding and your cab is a thing of beauty. Well done to you. |
| Laythe:
An idea rattled around in my head... and so I did an environmental cabinet upgrade. Mimic sits in an alcove, with about a foot to a wall on either side. (I built it to fit there.) The walls beside it are mostly parallel, and come back just about as far as it does. I was thinking about the traditional arcade layout, and being at Zapcon, and the feeling of being somewhere in the middle of a long row of machines. I bought and trimmed some mirrored tiles, and applied them to those two walls to make an infinity mirror type setup. Once installed, if you look off to either side, you see something like this: It had always bugged me before that in the alcove you just couldn't see the profile of the machine. Now you really can. When it's all fired up and illuminated, it's kind of cool. Off in your peripheral vision to the sides is something like this: The mirrors don't come far enough toward you to really see yourself in them from a normal playing position. The overall effect between this and firing up one of the arcade ambience background sounds, is slightly reminiscent of a line of machines off to infinity. And, hey, mirror tiles are very eighties, right? |
| yotsuya:
Looks cool, get a Fathead made of me and stick it on the wall next to you - instant ZapCon! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
| vertexguy:
That was a very clever idea! I love that it kinda feels like a full arcade that way. Nicely done! :cheers: |
| emphatic:
Excellent result! :applaud: |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |