The Web - VirtUal Pinball eXTreme

[Ond]

Looks really nice. I wish I had access to a 3D printer but if I bought one I know I'd only use it a couple of times a year, if that.  It looks like it provides options for things that would be too difficult to make by hand. Opens up a lot of possibilities.

Thanks, for a long time I did without a 3D printer in this hobby. I guess I have made a few things by hand which I could have 3D printed more easily. I regard them as a tool, not as a hobby in and of themselves with one caveat, you need to have 3D design skills to truly use them as as a tool. I’ve got a long list of projects (in other craft hobby areas) that include 3D printed elements. I may move into resin printing eventually, maybe.

So before looking at the latest build progress, I just wanted to check my design reference for work so far completed. My reference is always the original back-glass artwork from the PC game:

So far, I’ve reproduced the drawn speaker grill area in 3D and I'm using a cut-out window to reveal the DMD on screen. In theory I should be able to play other tables and adapt the back-glass art work to the physical layout. They all have similar speaker/DMD/back glass artwork configurations. I may need to tweak some back-glass files for games that don’t quite fit:

I painted the rest of the back box today, final primer coat and one coat only (in multiple passes) of black:

Second coat of primer on the main cabinet, one to go:

I’m using these 3D printed inserts in all the button holes on the cabinet:

The reason for these is my choice of buttons.  They are these cheap illuminated buttons sold in the shop I work in.  I have boxes full of unused quality Japanese (Seimitsu and Sanwa) as well as Happ buttons I could use, but I really wanted to use these illuminated buttons in this case. They have this raised edge which is meant to fit into a plastic ring which sits between the cabinet panel and the button. I hated the ring thingies, so threw I them away  :

The buttons fit into the inserts perfectly:

Next post will be of the completed back-box with monitor installed and lit!

[Ond]

I designed and printed these grill covers for the rear vent holes on the back-box:

Here you can see the angled aluminum glass retainers which stop the back glass from moving:

Back-box assembly completed:

Visual Pinball running 'The Web' re-worked back-glass artwork that I did. The DMD window sits pretty well in the cutout I think:

I mentioned earlier the excellent viewing angle performance this monitor has:

A closer view, monitor is sharp!:

That's it for the Back-Box for now. It only needs artwork applied, brackets, retaining clips and speakers installed.
In next steps I'll be painting the main cabinet and fabricating a (scaled down) coin door panel.

[Malenko]

Amazing work as always. I almost wanna build a new ginger now.

[Zebidee]

This build needs a sticky thread   

I'd be happy to have the thread stickied, eventually, but not this early in the project 

There are other kinds of sticky threads! Pun intended, sorry I couldn't resist.

You could seriously freak people out with a subtly-placed lifelike prop 

[Ond]

Amazing work as always. I almost wanna build a new ginger now.

Thanks for the nod in my project. I enjoyed following all of your Vpin builds!

There are other kinds of sticky threads! Pun intended, sorry I couldn't resist.

You could seriously freak people out with a subtly-placed lifelike prop 

Hah!  I'm that distracted by too many things I didn't pick up on the pun the first time. Bravo Zeb. 

[pbj]

Amazing work as always. I almost wanna build a new ginger now.

Gings gonna gong.

[Ond]

I'm gonna turn this:

Into this:

[Ond]

3D print is rough, but will be smoothed and surface finished, next, mount this into aluminum sheet:

[jmike]

Been gone for a while but glad to see some of the legends are still around.
Looking great as always Ond. 

[PL1]

3D print is rough, but will be smoothed and surface finished, next, mount this into aluminum sheet:

Looks like a solid start.   

Is this one of your designs or did you find it on a site like Thingiverse?


Scott

[Ond]

Been gone for a while but glad to see some of the legends are still around.
Looking great as always Ond. 

Great to hear from you jmike! I'm glad as well to see other byoac long timers still checking in. I'm putting everything I've learned in the hobby into this project as well as new things. My project keeps me posting here, but there's some other cool builds going on as well that keep me interested. 

Looks like a solid start.   

Is this one of your designs or did you find it on a site like Thingiverse?


Scott

Hey Scott, the coin plate is my own design. I wanted a custom 3/4 size panel to go with the Vpin. It will feature a very simple coin mech I'll print up as well. I've designed the slot to only accept tokens (or token sized coins). When it's done it should have a nice authentic look ... I hope.

When I get to a certain build point I'll take some time out to do the artwork for the cabinet. I've had a few goes at it but not happy with the results so far  .

Here's where I got to today with the panel. Two coats of primer and it's looking much smoother: