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Yet another Donkey Kong **Finished, for now**
spacies:
--- Quote from: MaMeNnO on October 06, 2006, 02:14:19 am ---That's four days for the whole cabinet???
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Yeah, and all I did yesterday was the artwork and assemble the control panel, Lazy huh?
--- Quote from: MaMeNnO on October 06, 2006, 02:14:19 am ---Take the next flight to the Netherlands... ;D I'll make sure there's lots of coffee! :cheers:
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LOL
johnm160:
Amazing!
That looks great Spacies.
What is the bezel printed on and how is it held to the glass?
melarky:
Maybe I'm not understanding how the marquee and bezel are supposed to be setup. Is the bezel really that far back from the marquee area? I always figued it was set up kind of like metal t-molding (the marquee glass and bezel glass just snug up agains the front t part, but the pic you have of your homemade piece looks way different).
I guess I'm kind of going off of the lamp I made:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=55628.0
I just printed the artwork for the marquee and bezel as one piece and just attached it at the top and bottom. I am a little worried about bending the plexi, my brother-in-law said his dad had a plexi bender, but he's about 2 hours away. Can you get and pics of the bracket you made installed and painted on your cabinet (which looks great by the way).
--- Quote from: spacies on October 06, 2006, 12:32:36 am ---
--- Quote from: Lutus on October 04, 2006, 10:26:11 am ---Do you have the recessed wheels in the back of the cabinet for moving. Helps out ALOT! :cheers:
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Yip, you just can't see them in the pics. :cheers:
--- Quote from: stew_bidasso on October 05, 2006, 12:06:26 pm ---I am also building a donkey kong cabinet (but a small version, about 2/3 size). I should really get some pics taken, I have it all assembled and it's just finishing painting (seems to be taking forever for me), so I missed all of the construction pics. It's been fun to build, and I got my side art from CAG last week, and I can't wait to put it on (I'm giving the blue paint on the sides a week to cure before I put the side art on). I am basically done painting, I just have to touch up a few small areas with black (all of the blue parts are done).
I think I'm going to do the marquee and bezel area with one continuous sheet of plexi (I'll just use a heat gun to give it that bend). I'll have the marquee retainer at the top, and then I'll just screw the plexi into the bottom bezel piece. Not sure how that will turn out, but hopefully it will work (I'll just print the marquee and bezel on one large sheet as well, and then I'll just add a black bar where the marquee bottom board is...).
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Good luck with your project, how about posting up some pics?
I found an easy way to make the bracket that holds both the marquee and plexi in place.
I used 2 pieces of angle ali and I held the bezel and marquess in place. I then placed the 2 pieces of ali in place and scribed a line to determine the distance they needed to be spread apart. Which was a bit smaller than in photo. I then drilled the mounting screw holes on the under side through both pieces. Once painted black you cant even tell they are 2 bits. ;)
Heating and bending the plexi sounds like a recipe for disaster. Make some brackets like I did.
PS, I used glass and the artwork is mounted on the inside. I always use glass. Looks very nice when clean and doesn't scratch like palstics.
--- Quote from: Stingray on October 05, 2006, 04:29:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: spacies on October 03, 2006, 02:47:43 am ---
Ok, now before you say, HOLY :censored: how did he build it so fast...
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Even after your explanation, I'm still impressed. Thank you for restoring my faith in the project announcements board! I look forward to following your progress!
-S
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You are welcome and thanks for taking a look.
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spacies:
--- Quote from: johnm160 on October 06, 2006, 10:00:35 am ---Amazing!
That looks great Spacies.
What is the bezel printed on and how is it held to the glass?
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Thanks. The bezel is a digital print and is printed on clear vinyl as a reverse image. This means the sticky side is against the glass and the ink goes on the back. Once printing is done then your apply a sheet of white to get the whites because those machines dont print white. Spray some soapy water on the glass and stick it down, work out the air bubles and you're done!
Stew: Take a look here: http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=MBEZBRKTN
It does step back a bit. Probably not as much as what I did, about 20mm, but there is definately a step.
I will take a close pic and post for you.
johnm160:
Great thanks, I never thought of clear vinyl. I assume you used the same thing on the marquee?
--- Quote from: spacies on October 06, 2006, 02:26:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: johnm160 on October 06, 2006, 10:00:35 am ---Amazing!
That looks great Spacies.
What is the bezel printed on and how is it held to the glass?
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Thanks. The bezel is a digital print and is printed on clear vinyl as a reverse image. This means the sticky side is against the glass and the ink goes on the back. Once printing is done then your apply a sheet of white to get the whites because those machines dont print white. Spray some soapy water on the glass and stick it down, work out the air bubles and you're done!
Stew: Take a look here: http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=MBEZBRKTN
It does step back a bit. Probably not as much as what I did, about 20mm, but there is definately a step.
I will take a close pic and post for you.
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