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Yenome:
Here i am thinking of making several diff cabs now i can just combine an upright a vpin in one. I had been trying to come up with a way to pull this off with just a pedestal that would be in horizontal mode until you picked the pinball or vertical list. then it would change or you could manually rotate the screen. i never did come up with a way for the second screen to come from some where to be the backglass/dmd. Awesome work cant wait to see the final results.

zeorangr:

--- Quote from: Yenome on December 08, 2021, 06:30:45 pm ---Here i am thinking of making several diff cabs now i can just combine an upright a vpin in one. I had been trying to come up with a way to pull this off with just a pedestal that would be in horizontal mode until you picked the pinball or vertical list. then it would change or you could manually rotate the screen. i never did come up with a way for the second screen to come from some where to be the backglass/dmd. Awesome work cant wait to see the final results.

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Thanks Yenome!

Depending on how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go with (or how readily available tools, space, and time may be for you for) building your own cabinet, you could still do something with a pedestal-type control panel, and attach a screen to one of the same TV stands I've been using for my software and marquee work while my cabinet is still in progress. The stand allows for horizontal / vertical rotation, and also will extend / fold down so that the TV will lay flat. I posted a video showing this earlier, but the video doesn't really highlight the stand's ability to move / rotate. I ordered the TV Stand from Buy Stuff Arcades in Canada, and built my own pedestal to hold the ATGames Legends Gamer controller. It looks like they're adding some more accessories on their site for this setup now too, like backbox attachments for pinball, or pedestal kits for mounting controls to. Even after finishing my cab, I may leave this up and running in the front room as well, next to my cabinet, depending on what the Mrs. says. ;D

I'm going to head back down to the woodshop in a couple of hours, so hopefully I'll be able to post some more progress pics tonight. I'm going to run to lowes in a little bit and get several more cans of paint and try to at least start painting the main cab some today. I have a couple of different ideas for the 'pinball profile panels' that I want to try to feel out as well. We'll see how it turns out!

zeorangr:
I was able to get the cabinet stripped down yesterday, and started painting - first coat of primer is on for the main cabinet.

Before:

After:

I ran out of time last night, so this is as far as I got, but it's still more progress. Woo, progress. I'll head back down there next Saturday and fill and then sand, and then put another coat on. I'm off work the following week, so I should be able to spend additional time down there and get the painting finished and get the cabinet reassembled, but I'll have to see how it goes.

zeorangr:
Quick update - no pics today.

Cabinet is fully painted and mostly assembled at this point. I think I got a bad / old can of paint, as there are some rough spots on the sides that I didn't see while I was painting. I want to bring it home though, so rough paint job is going to have to stand for now. When (not if... because it's going to bug me eventually) it gets to the point that I can't stand it anymore, I'll drag it out to the driveway and put some plastic down and fix the paint job, but it's good enough for now.

I'm currently planning on taking tomorrow off work and going down to the shop to finish up the few little things I need to do, like mounting the cabinet doors, cutting and mounting the marquee acrylic, and finishing up the back panel cover.

I never got to do much with the 'pinball profile panels' that Laythe had suggested, but I really like that idea, so those will eventually be added, just may be a few more weeks on those. At the moment, I really just want to get it up here so I can finish up the configuration stuff and get it functional.

I'll share pictures once I get it moved and in-place in the living room.

Groeneklodder:
That's a great and very unique build right there! As you allready saw my build on FB i like your approach of the hybrid systemn very much. Keep up the good work !!

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