The build so far.
Firstly I must acknowledge other inspirations for building a Vpin.
Malenko's vpin builds got me interested in the first place. You can check out a version of that
Here. It's a cute little vpin build fully packed with hardware and looks great finished!
My cabinet is a bit bigger, somewhere around 3/4 scale I guess. That leaves a bit more room for hardware. I'm still undecided about fitting legs to it or having it sit on a table top..
I read up on a bunch of build techniques and stuff and then pretty much threw all that out of the window and started making it up as I go along. Most build information is about full size Vpins and often references real pinball machine fabrication methods. That's all good an all but I have my own criteria for success..so...
Still at raw MDF and Marine Ply build stage. I love pics of other peoples raw timber stage projects so here's a few:
The back glass box has to fold down as per the real thing, so I made my own custom brackets which pivot in bushings fitted into the cabinet.
Fit of the playfield and back glass de-cased monitors:
A look inside at the first fitting of some hardware including Subwoofer amp, main amp, main amp power supply and Vesa mount plate:
View under the vesa mount plate to the 6.5" subwoofer driver:
The main speakers and tweeter arrangement. These fit neatly just behind the back glass monitor with a 3/4 inch or so gap beneath the monitor to allow sound out. (You can see that in a previous pic up above):
Subby from underneath, Its recessed right into the thick timber housing in the cabinet. I may or may not cover it with a grill.
This will be running fairly new PC hardware including:
12th gen Intel i7 CPU
DDR 5 supporting motherboard, 32 GB DDR 5 RAM
RTX 3060 Ti GPU
I'm still undecided about the front end software, happy to take recommendations. Apart from the main theme table it will run perhaps another 8 or so tables.