My 2nd is on it's way! - Updated Feb 20 06

[allroy1975]

Hey, remember my first cab?  I'm sure everyone does...


Well, I started another one.  I'm pretty excited about it.  I'm doing the Ultimate Arcade II plans and just wanted to kind of document my progress.  Last time I just threw the whole thing together (okay..that's what I'm doing this time too) but I will hopefully avoid the mistakes I made the first time.  I've also decided to split it in half.  I know others have done this, but I can't find the threads or remember who did it.  So, I figured out my own way of doing it.  I appologize if it's the same way others have, but...this is how my Control panel is attached on the first machine.  I'm not claiming it's origianal, but I didn't steal it. 

This one is going to go in our living room, so it's gotta look nicer.  I got some Birch Plywood, and I think it's gonna looks SWEET! 
  Here are some pics. 


This is just the Base, obviously...I haven't totally figured out how I'm going to make this beast accessable on the inside.  I'll probably put a door on the bottom back like I did on the first cab.  Not sure yet because of the way the top half comes down.




Okay, here's what I did, I bolted the monitor Shelf to a couple 2x6s using carriage bolts and huge Wing Nuts (half inch stuff...probably overkill, but it's easy to grab on to).  On the top of the Monitor Shelf I cut 2x2 and mounted it to the shelf so I could mount the sides on.  Once I get the rest of the top built it should come off and be just fine on its own.  I do everything with 2x2s on the inside so there's nothing showing on the outside.  I just like that clean look.




Yep, thats pretty much all I have done so far.  it's really starting to take shape though.  I'm excited about having a Keyboard tray on this one.  Seems to me that it's going to give me a lot of options.  Also it'll have a TV instead of a Computer monitor and I'll have some hacked SNES controllers in the drawer to play other Emulators for NES and SNES and Genesis and stuff like that.

Well, what do you guys think? 

<Duck and Cover>

Allroy

[Ghoward]

Cool looking cab, are you going to stain or paint it?

One thing I have found when buying birch plywood is to go though the whole pile of wood they have at the store and try to pick out the best sheets. All Birch plywood sheets are not made equal!

I always try to find sheets with the same color and also sheets that have not been patched together from more than one piece of wood.

I noticed on the last photo you have the bottom left hand side of your cab that sheet of plywood is that way and for $42 a sheet it

[allroy1975]

yeah, I should have said that.  I'm going to stain it.  and the wood I'm using is some cheap pine/birch mix.  So, it was only $30 a sheet.  I think it's going to be very cool..but there's still plenty left for me to mess up.  
I'm hoping once it's stained and all it won't look too bad, but I noticed that too.

Because the first cab was 4 player this one will just be 2 with no trackball etc.  It will be a much cleaner cab.  I can't decide if I should put a coin door in it or not.  Like I said it's going in the living room..it's supposed to have a furniture look to it...We'll see how it turns out.  

I'm excited about this design cuz the first one was just the plain LuSid Plans.  They're great plans but this one just looks cooler.  

Thanks for commenting though, I was starting to wonder if everyone just thought it was crap and so they weren't saying anything.  

Allroy

[Ghoward]

I can't decide if I should put a coin door in it or not.  Like I said it's going in the living room..it's supposed to have a furniture look to it...We'll see how it turns out.  

Both cabs that I have built are Birch and the one I still have lives in my living room.

I did put a coin door on it, I think it looks better with one myself.

Gary

[allroy1975]

wow, that looks really nice.  What's with the Handle there?  On mine that piece is already screwed on.  I was going to put the drawer right above that.

What kind of video card are you using if you don't mind my asking?  The Search feature on the message board isn't cooperating with me lately.  I just want to know what's a good video card for going in with S-Vid.  I have 2 cards and all S-Video out of video cards are definatly not the same.  
I can't find the other people who made the cab so it'll split in half either...  any idea?

Allroy

[Ghoward]

The handle is for the keyboard draw.

As for a video card mine is acrade VGA with a WG9200 as the monitor  so I'm not much help there when it comes to s-video.

As for 2 part cabs I know of one, take a look at snaaakes "Mamecast" cab is very very cool.

http://www.freewebs.com/snaaake/M2.htm

Gary

[MiKman]

I also built the UAII cabinet, and modified it so I could split the top from the bottom in case I ever have to move it, looks like you had much the same idea that I had with respect to puting it together.

I added an extra brace in the back to tie the lower and uppe half together, and as you can see the monitor shelf is attached to the upper half and bolted to the lower half through 2 2X4's

[MiKman]

Here is the lower half showing the 2 2X4's. Looks pretty much like what you did.  The brace at the back (shown above) really stiffened if up, I have a large shelf under that brace above where the motherboard, power supply etc. sit.   Anyhow I can just undo about 8 bolts and it comes apart into 3 pieces (upper, lower, control panel)  pretty sweet if I ever need to move :-) have fun with yours.

[CitznFish]

if you can find "Landshark's Cab" you'll see a top notch example of a split cab.

[allroy1975]

well, it took longer than it should have and i'm not terribly thrilled with the results, but I got the speaker panel up.  I routed some .5 inch lines this time.  On the first cab I drilled holes and then jigsawed lines between them creating an oval, this time I just used a router and did it.  unfortunatly I must not be good enough with a router yet and I still ended up with a few that look like 2 holes with a line cut in the middle.  Oh well...I'll get better and I don't think it'll be too noticable.  

Here's a couple pics of what the cab looks like now:

Allroy

[allroy1975]

Okay, got some more done.

I have the whole top half together.  Evertyhing is pretty good there, but I need to get to work on a Marquee.  I got a door on the bottom half.  

Here's pics:


It Seems like a good thing to me that I can hold the top half on my own.  I don't know why..but it does.


Yep, the last time I cut the board skinnier so that there was room for the hinges.  This time i Routed out space for the Hinges.  FUN!  Actually it wasn't but I think it looks a lot better.


Here's a pic of the sloppy routing I did.  Hey, it works and it won't be visible...except to you guys in these pictures.  hehehe...

Allroy

[hulkster]

nice work man.  can you take a pic of the back of your cab with the door closed?  im going to get some hinges for a door on mine as well but am worried about the gaps showing.  but i see that you used your router to route out the back part where the hinges are.  so can you take a pic of the back of it??

[allroy1975]

Just for you Hulkster!  



and in case you're wondering, I used something like this to latch it on the inside.



It's just a little thing that wedges between 2 ball bearings that pinch it.  I got it at rockler today while I was getting some Leg Levelers and some hardware for my keyboard drawer.

Allroy

[hulkster]

cool thanks for the pics!  im building a showcase cab, and the door will be on the back part of my control panel pedestal, so it will be a little more visible.  im debating on whether or not i should use the hinges like you have, or go with a more concealed option.  i mean, i wont be getting into that part of the showcase cab very much, since it will only house the coin door.

[Minwah]

Here's a pic of the sloppy routing I did.  Hey, it works and it won't be visible...except to you guys in these pictures.  hehehe...

Hey don't worry, here's one of my early routing jobs!  (not actually visible, it has a power connector screwed on and this is the inside)

Edit Forgot to say good job so far

[hyiu]

for the hinges... if you have some budget...
you can consider the followings...

This hinge is not see-able from the outside, and no need to mortise a hole on the inside... and its flush...
I'm using a pair of this for the front door....

http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?offerings_id=5270&objectgroup_id=463&catid=82

also.. they have quite a lot of different kind of hinges....

http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?offerings_id=251&objectgroup_id=345&catid=21

I use this kind so that I don't need to attach another piece of wood to the wood.... (hmmm.... I hope you understand what I mean....)

ok... I'm not done with my cab yet.... (still not done with CP...)
but I can take a few more pics and let you see what I mean if you want....

[allroy1975]

I know what you mean...i put those 2x2s on the back of my door.  Right?  I love doing everyting from the inside with 2x2s.  It's pretty.  Now, if I could just learn to cut straight.



Allroy

[Mimsy]

I like this one a lot.

That TV looks awfully familar to me, as I use an Exact clone of that 23" Zenith as my main TV!

-Mimsy

[Ghoward]

Any updates on this project yet?

Gary

[allroy1975]

Actually, I'm working (slowly) on the drawer.  I would like there to be like 8 USB ports and a Printer port (for hacked SNES controllers) available at the back of the drawer.  I'm still figuring out a way to make it look nice back there.  

The idea is that the keyboard drawer will be more of a DRAWER than just a keyboard tray.  I'd like to keep a bunch of Nintendo controllers and maybe some USB Nintendo 64 style Joysticks in there, so they're easily accessable to play N64 games, or PC games, etc.  

I also need to pick a stain and just go with it.  

I'm not sure if I've mentioned but I sold the idea to the girlfriend by saying that it'd be the Family arcade and we'd get a new marquee every year with like..a family picture taken at a differnt histoic place in St. Louis.  So, maybe the soon to be destroyed Bush Stadium or the Arch...stuff like that.  So, I've got it all planned out, I just need to get off my --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules-- and start doing it.

thanks for asking..knowing that someone wants to know if I'm working on it might just be the kick in the pants I need!

Allroy

[Ghoward]

Hey no problem I

[allroy1975]

GEEEEEZ!  What happened to all that free time I had?  or thought I had.  
I did get some time to stain SOME of the cabinet recently..it's not much, but it's progress.  Check it out.





I wish that cheap birch plywood I bought had a better grain.  But there's always next time!!!!  

It's looking REALLY good though and it will look great in the room I'm putting it in.  the bright light of the flash really brings out some of the uglyness in the wood, but Hopefully it won't look TOO Bad.  Anyway, I think it's looking good, and like everyone always says..as long as I like it, it's cool.  

Allroy

[hunky_artist]

how smooth is the finish you get on plywood when you stain it?

I'm debating whether to go for that, or to get sheets of laminate (not as easy to find in the UK)

this was the ideal looking finish i was wanting, but ill have to see how close i can get

[allroy1975]

how smooth is the finish you get on plywood when you stain it?

I'm debating whether to go for that, or to get sheets of laminate (not as easy to find in the UK)

this was the ideal looking finish i was wanting, but ill have to see how close i can get

The wood was VERY smooth to begin with.  I sanded it a little bit before I stained it.  A Very little bit.  So it's obviously still pretty smooth.  Once I'm done with the stain on the whole cabinet I'm going to throw a couple coats of polyurethane at it so it should give it a nice protected smooth finish.

That's all I have to say about that.

Allroy

[hunky_artist]

what colour stain did you use? sorry for the questions but I'm about to build mine and I was initially after laminate, but that's almost impossible to find here in the UK so if I can get the darkwood finish I'm after with ply and stain then I'll be happy

[Ghoward]

Nice to see an update I was getting close to posting here again myself to find out how things were going.

Gary

[subcriminal]

how smooth is the finish you get on plywood when you stain it?

I'm debating whether to go for that, or to get sheets of laminate (not as easy to find in the UK)

this was the ideal looking finish i was wanting, but ill have to see how close i can get

I'm in the UK. I got a couple of sheets of 18mm spruce ply from wickes for about

[allroy1975]

what colour stain did you use? sorry for the questions but I'm about to build mine and I was initially after laminate, but that's almost impossible to find here in the UK so if I can get the darkwood finish I'm after with ply and stain then I'll be happy

It's a Minwax stain called Golden Oak 210B.

I tested with some different colors on extra wood and then put them all in the room where the cabinet will go and decided I liked this one the best.

Allroy

[SNAAAKE]

Does stain form some sort of textures or patterns ?
Or it depends on how the wood looks ?

Nice cabs btw  

[hunky_artist]

thanks for the information guys!  

[Ghoward]

Does stain form some sort of textures or patterns ?
Or it depends on how the wood looks ?

Nice cabs btw  

It's really down to the wood you buy, it's best to go though the whole pile of wood at the store and find the best boards you can that match each other the best.

Gary

[allroy1975]

It's really down to the wood you buy, it's best to go though the whole pile of wood at the store and find the best boards you can that match each other the best.

yeah, that's where I went wrong, it was all nice smooth wood so I just grabbed a few sheets.  

Allroy

[jdjuggler]

Those of you who have built the UAII cabinet....  I was wondering about the size of the keyboard drawer.  The height appears to be oversized.  What I'm wondering is if I can somehow decrease the profile (the front vertical piece).
Why you ask?  I'm fairly tall and I'd like to sit on a stool.  I'm thinking my knees will hit the front of the keyboard drawer while sitting.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
JD

[Tilzs]

I don't know if you want to hear this at this point or not but  you know that the birch plywood that you got is most likely birch/maple. One face is birch and one face is maple. If you look at each side you'll notice that they are infact different woods.

Did you get the polyshades minwax stain? If not you might want go over one last time with a coat of poly, at the very least the CP should have poly on it if you are leaving it wood and not covering it.

[allroy1975]

jdjuggler:  I'll take a picture of a drawer that's how I'm going to make mine.  It will be low, but hopefully not too bad.  Get a short stool  

Tilzs: I figured out that each side is different and one side looks like crap.  It's too late to do anything about it now though.  I've got it all stained and I'm probably going to Polyurithane it this weekend.  I think/hope that'll make it look better.  It looks okay when it's wet with stain, and hopefully it'll give it some of that look permanantly.  

The CP will be smothered in that Epoxy stuff that you mix up to make a thick cover on it.  I'd like to do something fancy with quarters on it...put them in the clear stuff make them look like they're floating there or something...I dunno.

Allroy

[Ghoward]

Tilzs: I figured out that each side is different and one side looks like crap.  It's too late to do anything about it now though.  I've got it all stained and I'm probably going to Polyurithane it this weekend.  I think/hope that'll make it look better.  It looks okay when it's wet with stain, and hopefully it'll give it some of that look permanantly.

Allroy

I don't think it's too late why not replace the one side panel with a new one. The rest of it looks great and the back panels don't matter. I know it would be a pain but it would be worth the effort.

Gary

[walls83]

Im doing the epoxy on my bar top.  with all kinds of stuff under there.

[bwillis614]

I followed the same plans and built mine of cheap oak plywood

http://www.slam-tilt.com/pinball/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album13&page=3

[Ghoward]

Allroy, any more updates on your cab for us yet? I'm looking forward to seeing the finished results.

Gary

[allroy1975]

bah, I've been so disappointed with how the stained grain looks that I haven't done much but move it into my garage and look at it like I hate it every time I see it.  

I need to poly it and then just start working on the CP.

It could be finished in a week if I wasn't so pissed at it.  

I'll try to finish her up just for you thouhg.  

Allroy

[Ghoward]

bah, I've been so disappointed with how the stained grain looks that I haven't done much but move it into my garage and look at it like I hate it every time I see it.  

I need to poly it and then just start working on the CP.

It could be finished in a week if I wasn't so pissed at it.  

I'll try to finish her up just for you thouhg.  

Allroy

I'm sure it will still look good when it's finished, after all when a cab is not finished it doesn't look half as good as it does when its finished!

Gary

[allroy1975]

Well, Thanks to Gary!  

I've started working on the POS cab again.  I got some of that 3/4" veneer edging in White Birch.  So, thanks to like 50' of that stuff, the cab actually looks a little better.  I had to iron it all on and get it looking okay, then I stained it and it's actually looking better!  I'll post pics when there's real progress to make.

I'm gonna let the stain set for a few days, then I'll start the polyurithaning.  Then it's off to San Jose for the Classic Gaming Expo!  I can't wait!  David Crane is gonna be there!!!  HOW COOL IS THAT!?!?

Allroy

P.S. - Gary, thanks for bumping the thread back up and making me remember that I had that cab taking up space in the garage!

[Ghoward]

Allroy your funny, I have to keep bumping it up, you see I have a thing for wood finished cabinets as you might have guessed since that

[allroy1975]

Alright, I've got a problem....
When I started the cab I based the dimentions off this crappy 25" Zenith TV with a Coax in.  Somewhere along the way I was able to pick up a nice 27" Panasonic with S-vid and Component video inputs for a great price of $50.  I had measured it a bunch of times to make sure it would fit, but was building the cab in the basement, with a final destination of upstairs and I didn't want to be carrying that TV up and down the stairs.

Anyway, now that it's in the Garage, it's not such a long or difficult trip.  Last night I decided to put it in the cab.  The top fits no problem.  It's close, but it fits.  The thing I never noticed is that the TV case actually gets slightly wider at the bottom.  and just in the front.  Not Good.

so...now I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas?  I guess I could take the TV tube out of the case, but how do I mount it?  it's only like and 1/8" off on each side. I could try to shave the plastic off on the TV...but that creeps me out.  I dunno.  Any ideas?

Allroy

[allroy1975]

Phew!  Never mine on the Help...i guess I figured something out.  For some reason (maybe the wood will give a little higher up or whatever) I put in some 2x4s and put SQUEEZED the TV into the cab.  Check out this fit:



Anyway, you can see the veneer I put on too in this pic.

See ya!

Allroy

[foomench]

I don't know if you want to hear this at this point or not but  you know that the birch plywood that you got is most likely birch/maple. One face is birch and one face is maple. If you look at each side you'll notice that they are infact different woods.

I've never heard of such a thing - mixed woods plywood. What is very common is to use different grades on the two faces, and also to mix cuts - radial cut on one side and plane slice on the other. These will look quite different.

-foomench

[allroy1975]

That's right!  Actual progress IS being made!

Tonight (yes, just tonight) I installed the Keyboard drawer and cut out the monitor bezel and was VERY releaved to find out that my measuring wasn't completly off.   This just means I have more sanding and staining and everything to do.    

Here are the pics to prove it



Gonna be working on it a lot more here for a while I hope.  

Allroy

[allroy1975]

See?  I said I'd be working on it and making progress.  

Here are some pictures of the drawer in progress.  Stolen off a drawer on my son's desk, the hinges cause a slight gap when the front is closed, but when it's open it lays down perfectly flat, and won't kill the wrists.  I just thought it'd be cooler this way.  




Oh, and the stain was VERY freshly applied...you'll notice some pooling but that's been cleaned up.  

Allroy

[Matt, GoC]

Ya'know, I see nothing wrong with your cabinet.  It looks very well done even at this stage.  The veneer edgebanding looks good too, and hides the fact that the sides are plywood nicely.  Don't quit now, you're almost there!!!

[allroy1975]

Thank you very much!  actually it's nearly impossible to get good pictures of this cab.  It seems to look different from every angle.  Some good, some bad.  The light (of both the flash and just the room light) affect it greatly.  It's a very interesting piece of work.  I got the drawer hardware finished up tonight.  I just need to get to mounting the USB ports and the Paralell Ports (for NES and SNES controllers)wired up to those slots in the back of the drawer.  Anyway, it looks nice with this slick black handle I found.  I'll post more pics when I feel it appropriate (soon).  

Thanks again
Allroy

[bdsjake]

oh my, another furniture cab!  what will people say!?  Brave soul you are!

 

[allroy1975]

Well, ya know...the Arcade is in the basement.  

it's not original blah blah it's not original...it's nice looking.  The wife will let me have it on the main floor.  It was a chance to do something different.  If you want original go to the basement and play one of my pac man cabs, or a PINBALL machine for goodness sake.

Anyway...I like it more each day.  Won't ever like it as much as my first with the obnoxious 80's colors...but...I like this one.  And I made it for me.  Well, me and my family.  

Allroy

[allroy1975]

alright, not TOO much done tonight...but I did go get another pinball machine!  It's called StratoFlite or something like that.  It's an old Williams pin.  Sweet.  Nice gift from the in laws.  

Here are some pics of the cab as it stands though..as well as a picture of the inside of the drawer again, showing how it works a little better.





Neato huh?

Allroy

[Matt, GoC]

NICE!  Even the bezel's wood, eh?  I'm surprised no one's (as far as I know) built a furniture-type jukebox yet.  That would look nice.  A bit off-topic question for you; since you have some pinball machines, how much does a decent-condition pinball go for, anyway?  Kinda curious is all...

[allroy1975]

I got a Bride of Pinbot for $1000, a Black Knight 2000 for $1600 a Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man Pinball for $500, a 1957 (I think) Majorettes and the Strato Flite for free.  So....it really changes a lot on what machine it is.  some are very collectable or whatever...like..I don't think I've seen a South Park pin for under $2000 in any condition.  That's the one I really want.  

Allroy

[Ghoward]

It's coming along great, have you started on the control panel yet?

Gary

[allroy1975]

starting soon!  gotta figure out the design that I'm going to have laser etched into the control Panel.  I think i'm going to go with Quarter/timeline idea.  I made a post a while back asking what people thought were the most important years of Arcade history....so i think I'm going to do something where there's a quarter from 1972 and a line coming down from it and some text saying "Pong becomes first arcade game"  then a 1980 Quarter and a line with something like:
"Pac-Man
Missle Command
Defender
Centipede
Bezerk"

You get the idea.  Maybe Mark 1986 as the year Nintendo made video games cool again with the NES and go from like 1972 - 1992 when Mortal Kombat came out.  

You get the idea.  I just need to create a Jpg to get to the laser people so I can get a quote.  I might make a new thread for that to get input from folks.  I won't put every game on there...obviously...but I'd like to get all of my favorites.

What do you think?

Allroy

[bdsjake]

Well, ya know...the Arcade is in the basement.  

it's not original blah blah it's not original...it's nice looking.  The wife will let me have it on the main floor.  It was a chance to do something different.  If you want original go to the basement and play one of my pac man cabs, or a PINBALL machine for goodness sake.

Anyway...I like it more each day.  Won't ever like it as much as my first with the obnoxious 80's colors...but...I like this one.  And I made it for me.  Well, me and my family.  

Allroy

hehe, Allroy, I don't think you got the the irony, I like your cab, check out this thread:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=25045

[allroy1975]

Well, ya know...the Arcade is in the basement.  

it's not original blah blah it's not original...it's nice looking.  The wife will let me have it on the main floor.  It was a chance to do something different.  If you want original go to the basement and play one of my pac man cabs, or a PINBALL machine for goodness sake.

Anyway...I like it more each day.  Won't ever like it as much as my first with the obnoxious 80's colors...but...I like this one.  And I made it for me.  Well, me and my family.  

Allroy

hehe, Allroy, I don't think you got the the irony, I like your cab, check out this thread:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=25045

yep...i had read your thread and think your cabs look good too. I didn't think you were saying you didn't like it.  I was just shutting anyone down who wanted to come in and say "wood cabs suck cuz I've never seen one in an arcade" or whatever people complain about.  

They weren't that hard on your cabs.  It seemed like there were maybe 2 that were kinda rough on you...but those guys sucked anyway.  

Allroy

[bdsjake]

cool,

ps, let's see some pics of that gameroom and all your pins!  have a 93 Star Wars myself.

[allroy1975]

I don't know...something like this.

http://www.pac-mat.com/images/MAMEII/ControlPanelfortheboard.jpg

ya know?

I might just drop the 1971 (although I do think it's important) and just do the 80s.  I hate to leave mortal Kombat out, but I'm running out of space.  

Allroy

[SirPeale]

You forgot a biggie - 1979, Space Invaders.

And Asteroids
etc etc

[allroy1975]

You forgot a biggie - 1979, Space Invaders.

And Asteroids
etc etc

I didn't forget it....I cut it for space reasons!  the CP is only 30 (approx) inches wide.

If anyone who's good at this stuff wants to try to design something for me, that'd be okay with me.  

Allroy

[Ghoward]

Come on Allroy how about an update!!

Gary

[allroy1975]

Umm......errr....uhhh   

soon....very soon. 
I've bee busy with another project that's sitting incomplete....both are like 90%

the other will be very cool.  I did finally build the PC for this one though....I just need to decide what to do with the control panel.  I was going to do a timeline, but...that seems like a lot to do....

SOON though...for sure. 

[Ghoward]

Umm......errr....uhhh

[allroy1975]

what would I do without you!?   

[allroy1975]

WEEEEE..HE..HELL....it's certainly been a while.  Over 120 days according to the message in red above what I'm typing.  I never finished this cabinet and FINALLY deceided it NEEDS to be finished.

Control Panels are just SUCH a pain in the ass, aren't they?  especially when you plan on doing something strange?  anyway....I posted a few questions in the http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=48520.0 to ask a few questions about the (in my mind) complex nonsense I'm doing with this control panel. 

The idea is to mount the joysticks to the bottom of the control panel but have the top 1/4" of the CP be an epoxy goo that solidifies to look like glass.  I'm sure you've seen this effect on Bar tops and table tops at some point in your life.  I finally got around to pouring the CP the other day and just drilled all my button holes last night. 

Here are some pics.  Feel Free to comment.

[Ghoward]

Looks great looking forward to seeing more.

Gary

[allroy1975]

Marquee

As I beleive I mentioned at some point in this thread, to get it in the upstairs part of the house, I had to make it look like furniture and it helped that I said I'd make it kinda..family oriented.  Thus:  The marquee will change every year, reflecting events of the previous year.  So, this year, We're the Davis Family Arcade 2005.

We spent a lot of time in Disney World (that's where we got married) so there are quite a few pics of us there.

Allroy

[Ghoward]

Have you done it yet?


Gary

[mccoy178]

He's married, of course he has!  Oh........ you mean the arcade...............