| Main > Project Announcements |
| Because... Horizontal Multi- Vector |
| << < (7/11) > >> |
| javeryh:
What a great looking cabinet. Your bezel game is rock solid too - I tried that once and gave up after an hour of frustration. |
| bobbyb13:
It's my third using this method so I'm finally getting decent at it! --- Quote from: Zebidee on May 11, 2023, 07:49:09 am ---That certainly is some impressive bezel work. Stronger than a cardboard bezel. Not really more complicated either, if you have the right stuff. Also good that the goats can't eat it! --- End quote --- If you follow this route it removes the (potentially hours) of frustration. All the stupid tubes are frequently just slightly different shapes so using one as a template for others the same size octen doesn't even work. I hope others will take a shot at making one using this sparse tutorial kinda post. Happy to give help to any who ask about any of the stuff I am trying to do! --- Quote from: javeryh on May 11, 2023, 06:10:37 pm ---What a great looking cabinet. Your bezel game is rock solid too - I tried that once and gave up after an hour of frustration. --- End quote --- And thanks for the encouragement y'all. For a still largely traditional cabinet this is a weird one, and I am a notably uninspired and ---smurfy--- artist so the graphical treatment will continue to be a challenge no matter what other fun crap I can pull off. Same as the still unadorned S.S. Marshmallow really. For the love of Pete, the 95% finished machines of it all... |
| bobbyb13:
In spite of being midwife for 6 ridiculouslys cute baby goats over the last few weeks I have still managed to get some ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- done. Primed. Man, I wish the hell I had figured out that sealing a cabinet with spar varnish before doing anything else was the secret to a super flat finish without having to sand the damn thing 600 times. Since the previous pic I have put two coats of the finsh color on it too actually, but I forgot to take a picture. Maybe I'll mix another drink and go take one because I don't have anything else to do (although maybe invoice for the work that has been keepnig me from having any fun I suppose) and not very many other people are posting anything of note lately either so I may as well spam the ever-lovin'-crap out of this before I get scolded for being a jackass and give anyone else who is bored something to laugh or complain about. :D So there, dammit. And if you complain I'll post more pictures of the goats everywhere. But not until I mix another drink. :lol |
| bobbyb13:
Another MaiTai down and... 50 shades of gray my buttcrack- ONE shade of gray, and that is... Battleship And while I was at it, I added a gloss coat of black resin to the bezel and then got to play a few rounds of Star Wars Trilogy with the boy while I was waiting for it to kick so that I cuold get a proper present progress shot- Could there POSSIBLY be a game that has a better attract mode than Star Wars Trilogy?! Proper homage to the Sega crew who buil the SWT machine. :notworthy: It is the absolute pinnacle of arcade machines for anybody born around 1970 as far as I'm concerned. I'm still beside myself with glee that I own a functional original. Great graphics and gameplay, the audio is outstanding, and all this occurred before any influences outside Lucas himself had a chance to ruin the story and the franchise. Yeah, I'm a grouchy ol' ---sufferer of cranial-rectal-inversion--- when it comes to Star Wars, so fight me. And get off my lawn. :) Still looking forward to getting my Incom Fllight Simulator/vector bastard cabinet functional though. >:D |
| Zebidee:
Awesome. You could shave with that reflection! Glad you chose "battleship" grey because that's how the spaceships, deathstar etc looked in the original 1977 release. I originally saw Star Wars the traditional way: at the drive-in, from the back seat of the family station wagon. In the remade/remastered (and later) versions, released in 1997, the same version where Han shoots second instead of first, there was a magenta wash over everything and I thought it was particularly noticeable in the Deathstar scenes. It makes the movie look less "seventies", but I dunno :dunno You be the judge. I wrote about this on another thread last year and posted comparison shots, so rather than repeat myself any further: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,166923.msg1759471.html#msg1759471 |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |