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First Cabinet: Unconventional Design
yuppicide:
I am with everyone else. Love the cabinet design, don't like the artwork.
Mark70:
Just revisiting here.
You know. With a good marquee, bezel, and CP artowork, that cab would probably look pretty sharp just in black.
The white will be a challenge to accomodate in bezel and cp art. For some reason the black and white make me think of yin-yang
Masterful Gaze:
I like the design alot. :applaud:
The first thing I thought of when I saw the beach side was Super Mario 2. Sticking Mario on the beach might be a thought.
Sylpher:
Dang! I can't believe it has been 3 years since working on this. First I would like to pay a small tribute to the guy who helped me originally with this cabinet, Ed. He was an extremely talented guy as his wood working shows, but he passed away. I still have the cabinet, but with his passing and my laziness I lost a lot of motivation to work on it. Then I had a fairly epic HDD crash in which all 3 (one, two, three!) of my HDD's died and after that point I lost all motivation.
So here is to Ed and the hopes that he is playing in the largest arcade... somewhere out there.
But time passes and we move on from things like this and a couple weeks back I looked at my huge cabinet sitting in the corner, sad, alone...collecting dust, and thought "What the hell is wrong with me?" and I would really like to clean it up and make it look really sharp.
I have already addressed a couple issues that occurred with simply moving the cabinet around. The T-molding in a couple areas had come loose and due to not routing the edges before assembling I couldn't get it to really stick well on some of the corners. I picked up some Gorilla Glue and it seems to be holding quite nicely now.
The other areas I want to focus on, and the real purpose of posting, I was hoping to get some feedback and suggestions from the community. The bezel, marquee, and control panel never really got finished, and the art...well...can use some improving.
The general direction I am wanting to go is a very clean, minimalist look. Someone pointed out that clean black with the white molding alone would probably look pretty slick and I agree. I am considering sanding the art down a bit just to make it smooth and then paint black over it, then putting some minimal lines (Something like the Atari 2600 game covers, or a retro 70's kind of look) or a MAME logo sort of theme on the sides and marquee.
I'd love to hear any other ideas anyone might have, or other possible direction you think it could go?
severdhed:
i like the cabinet design alot
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