My first build: "Mimic"

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Laythe:
Token -

Cash price wasn't too terrible, actually - the TV ran me just <$500, and the refurb LG marquee panel was about $300.

Vertical oversize LCD club - cheers! :cheers: I went back and forth many times while building it, between feeling like a genius for getting a huge 1:1 square display on the cheap as compared to something like an Eizo ev2730q 26.5" 1920x1920 square @ $1,400 - and feeling like a total idiot for throwing away 43% of a perfectly good screen by hiding it inside the cabinet.

I got over feeling like an idiot, after seeing it running from the front side. It's like a magic trick, almost nobody recognizes how it works.

Re: coin door, I guess we all come to associate our nostalgia with different details. For me, it was the T-molding - when that went on, it was like Pinocchio had become a real boy - whoah, this is an ARCADE MACHINE now all of a sudden. Putting in a quarter wasn't "it" for me, but I can certainly understand where it would be for some. I suppose it's true, that it is not too late. I like the feel of the CDRs though, so if I did go that way, I'd probably end up doing some sort of unholy surgery on a coin door without mechs to hang CDRs flush to the square openings. I'm sure they're probably both the wrong size and the wrong aspect ratio... hmm... ...maybe later. :)

MvC 2.0 and Blip having a baby - :lol. I can only take that as a compliment, thanks! I hope that neither of them mind the resemblance.

Bloinkxp:
That is a stunning cabinet man. I love the fact that you made your own FE...that is a commitment to a build.

I am fully of cabinet envy.

yotsuya:
If I may be honest, I'm not a big fan of the size of the marquee area. It makes the machine look top-heavy to me.

With that said, I appreciate the craftsmanship and subtle design choices, and I think you have a nice cab there. :cheers:

vwalbridge:
The dynamic marquee is nice but the best part of this cab is the notch in the back for baseboards. ;)

I was also wondering why you had the power inlet on the side but then I put it all together when you said it was wall mounted. Necessary I'm sure during aggressive gameplay and being top heavy.

Well thought out and great execution. :applaud:

Laythe:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on January 18, 2016, 09:51:50 pm ---If I may be honest, I'm not a big fan of the size of the marquee area. It makes the machine look top-heavy to me.

With that said, I appreciate the craftsmanship and subtle design choices, and I think you have a nice cab there. :cheers:

--- End quote ---

Honesty very much appreciated, thanks!

I agree entirely, actually. As you allude - I pocketed the marquee panel into the sideplates to make it smaller, avoided having any structure over or under it to make it smaller, made the control panel belly area very deep and tall to try to balance it top to bottom and make it look smaller, avoided horizontal bands of T-molding up there to avoid visually emphasizing the bulk... and... it's a still a bit too big. Blip does it better, no question.

(That said, is it $800 too big? I decided, no, I could live with this.)

The real killer build, if anybody wants to pony up to do it: Mimic has about 1.5" of dead space beside the TV. A 46" LCD like this will sandwich into a 24" wide cabinet, with what was the bottom up against the left wall, and a slight gap to the right wall, to center the display area. If you run a Spanpixel like Blip does, it will also fit nicely inside that 24" space. You could make something with absolutely classic lines, a dynamic marquee, and your dynamic bezels will go within a half inch of being edge-to-edge as well as top-to-bottom. It'd be great. It'd be $1,800 in panels, but it'd be great. :D

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