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| RaggedEdge:
OK, all parts painted and the coin door installed. I wanted to have a working coin door so I got the one that actually credits the games. |
| RaggedEdge:
I put the base speaker in the cabinet just to get it out of the way. Also, I printed out a scaled drawing of all the templates for all the controls to get a feel for how things are arranged. |
| RaggedEdge:
I created a scaled model of the cabinet so I could see how my graphic would look on it with all the controls. I used Truespace by Caligari to model the cabinet and placed the CP overlay graphic on it. Then I modeled all the controls. The Mars background came from JPL's Mars Rover photos. They always have huge high resolution files on their website, so I was able to keep the 300 dpi that I wanted for the graphic. |
| RaggedEdge:
OK so now I have almost caught everyone up with what I have been doing. Last week, I worked on the Lexan for the control panel. I took my control panel file up to Kinkos and after failing to get them to understand what I wanted, I finally found a Kinko's that had someone there who really took and interest in what I was doing. His name is Bobby and he is at the Greenspoint Kinkos in Houston (in case someone is near there) He printed the CPO out on indoor vinyl for me. It looks pretty good, although I do see some banding from the inkjet cartridges. Probably it would look better if I had someone like Mamemarquees do it, but I am satisfied for now. I cut out the graphic and used a small drill bit to put pilot holes in the Lexan so I would know where to center all the holes. I used a 1 1/8 spade bit and clamped the Lexan on top of the control panel and got after it with the drill. |
| RaggedEdge:
After drilling the holes and using a 3" hole saw for the trackball hole, I couldn't wait to see how it looked. I probably shouldn't have taken the protective film off yet, but I plan to keep it well protected in the meantime. I mounted the Lexan with all the buttons that I currently have. I liked the results other than the banding that shows up on the graphics. |
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