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Heavy Metal (The Movie) Themed Cab - My first build
Newsome:
This is my first arcade cabinet to work on and I wanted to post the results. The theme is the movie "Heavy Metal" - a fantasy/cartoon from 1981 (a good year for games too).
I decided to build 2 cabinets at the same time and this cabinet belongs to a friend. We worked on it (off and on) for a few months. Pics of my cabinet (a different theme) will be online soon.
For both cabinets, I started with the Ulimate Arcade II plans and modified them to remove the keyboard drawer - this allows for the coin door to be mounted higher.
I created a site for his cabinet - so check it out and let me know what you think.
-Newsome
Website:
http://www.mindspring.com/~chrisnewsome/index.html
Some finished pics:
http://www.mindspring.com/~chrisnewsome/fin001b.jpg
http://www.mindspring.com/~chrisnewsome/fin002b.jpg
http://www.mindspring.com/~chrisnewsome/fin003b.jpg
http://www.mindspring.com/~chrisnewsome/fin006b.jpg
Mameotron:
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammm!!
Awesome, I really like the sideart.
Witchboard:
Cool. You used the original. I was afraid you were going to use 2000. Good work, love the artwork, although I would have had to have more emphasis on the Pac-Man ship. ^_^ I like how your trackball is the same color as the orb. LOL Good touch there. Great cab.
Newsome:
Yeah - the original HM movie was awesome! HM:2000 was just awful...
That's cool that you picked up on the Loc Nar (the Green Orb) reference with the trackball...
The sides are painted to look like damaged sheet metal and Bruce ordered the stainless steel joysticks for the control panel from SlikStik. So the cab looks like "Heavy Metal" as well as having all the movie artwork on it.
Will:
I had considered this as a theme at one point glad someone beat me to it.Awesome artwork ,I just wish you would have put Hannover Fist in there.Really nice work on the cabinet.Why did you buy a slikstik instead of building it yourself?
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