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My first conversion and real build
TeamTEOR:
Thanks buddy, that will help when I go to print the templates out for a mockup on the foam board. I did also find the old templates that I used for my cousin-in-law, they were the ones on the Lucid site, betweem both yours and his I can start to move forward on this some.
I am going to attempt to cut out a piece of wood today for the control panel if time allows. I need to check to see if my wood is the proper size for the T-molding. If it is not, I know I can got into Home Depot to pick up some proper (thickness) sized MDF. I'll post some pics once I get that going.
muzland:
Neat Cab TeamTEOR,
What are the dimensions of the Marquee area? Looks like you could fit a Widescreen LCD in there. Now that would be cool :D
Muzland
theCoder:
You've got a lot of different colors and contrasts going on with that artwork. You might want to surround the buttons with a solid color and/or pin-stripped boarder so they don't get lost in the graphics.
I can relate to the honey-do list. It's a delicate balance keeping up with chores & family when the cab build is on your mind.
TeamTEOR:
Muzland, I believe it had a 25 or 27 inch monitor in there. I'll mesure the open area on it later on. The widescreen LCD is a nice thought, the only problem I have with that is there are no light guns that I would be able to use that I know of. Presently I have a set of two Act Labs USB light guns. If my info was correct their control boxes can be daisy chained so I can use both at the same time. connected to my SVGA monitor. I have a Viewsonic A90 that I will be using for testing till I can figure out if I can afford to get a 25 or 27 inch monitor and a proper video card for it and light guns.
theCoder, I feel the same way. That was just me messing around with paint shop pro and The GIMP software to edit the picture that way. I am hopeing that for the Fighter CP that layout will be a good one. I don't think that I left anything out of there. As for the Chores.... We all use the force, that is how we get it done. With the age comes the wisdom to balance it all. Part of what we grew up with, to win the game you must achive the balance of quarters in your pocket to finsh and see the credits.
Today I had the chance to go to Home Depot. I picked up two pieces of wood cut up to the correct dimentions needed for the control panel. All that is left is for me to cut are the angled cuts to shape the front part of the CP. I also made the width smaller on the CP to allow space for the T-Molding to wrap around completely and still be removable. Also since most people are telling me not to bother with a lexan lamination I picked up the wood in 3/4 MDF so it can just get a good quality CP artwork overlay. I am pretty sure if there is a need I can use a very thin lexan sheet over the artwork. I took a piece of T-molding in with me to make sure I had the right size wood. Tomorrow I'll run a pencil to match the profile of the CP base and run the circular saw and maybe even the router (if I have the proper T-Molding bit).
muzland:
Thanks for the reply TeamTEOR,
I was thinking of the LCD for the Marquee area not as the main game screen.
This could be used to show the right marquee for the game that is being played, Johnny 5 or whatever. I just think it opens up a range of possibilities and would be really cool and unique.
It just looks right the right sort of dimensions.
I have toyed with a similar idea for my cab but I simply don't have the space in the marquee to do this (it is long and thin). I have even thought of using a rear projector type system to display custom marquees.
Muzland