Author Topic: Moon Patrol cab built from scratch ! (Read 8793 times)

david656 · « **on:** January 22, 2008, 06:51:35 pm »

hey im building a moon patrol cabinet from scratch and as fun as it will be it will also be hard, i couldn't of done what i have so far with out the help of 'jakobud' and the great guy from 'noiselandarcade' but of course being in the uk i have to use mm ! so i have done my best with there help and drawn up these plans.

if anyone can check them to make sure there correct and give me a few pics of how the marquee fits in i would be very please !

PS im not calling my diagrams the most brilliant things in the world ! but i think you get the jist !

there .wmf's but windows XP can by standard view these anyway

patrickl · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2008, 07:45:53 pm »

Always loved that game. I would be humming that tune all day after I had played Moon Patrol.

ChadTower · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2008, 03:09:35 pm »

Moon Patrol is one of the few rasters that might become a keeper for me if I came across one. Great, great game. Classic music.

Now I have that song in my head. I actually don't mind.

I'll be following this project and very happy to see a new Moon Patrol come into the world.

spacies · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2008, 03:46:16 pm »

I am so happy you are building a classic cab.
Great choice!

I will be following this build also.

david656 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2008, 03:54:57 pm »

thanks guys ! yeh hopefully it should go ok :S

the main problems are

-MDF
-not using wheels
-got less than a day of time (spread over a month) to do it
-im 16 !
-i have never done anything like this before

positives .... im getting a GCSE out of it !

i will try to post some pics when i get this think going

ChadTower · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2008, 04:08:27 pm »

Unless you have expert help, don't expect to be able to build a full cab in less than a day of time if you have no experience. That is a very difficult goal. Don't be afraid to scale it down a bit to a bartop or cabaret.

david656 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2008, 04:30:46 pm »

i cant scale down now ! not enough time to re do the coursework !

and i will be going back after school every day to work on it and i have been studying the internet for 2 years now so have a 'ok' knowledge !

the PC isn't a problem, and neither is the wiring i have done all that and its looking good BUT i have no real experience of building something quite so big, luckly my teacher is pritty good and im really hoping i will be left to go in another room on my own and get on with it because the rest of the class is making fishing tackle box's or small things !

if i can do a hour after school each day then thats 20 extra hours ! so thats handy i supose but its still going to be tight !

bvicarious · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2008, 06:19:00 pm »

Hang in there, and make sure you go in each day with a clear idea of what you'll be doing, what needs to be cut, what needs to be glued et c. You'll run into a few bumps, but the more you plan the more smoothly it'll go. I couldn't see the .wmf files properly, they were all black when I loaded them, but good luck!

david656 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:33:34 am »

oh, thats anoying, i will upload a file of it in jpeg form

yeh it should be good ! once again if anyone has knowledge of how it fitted together i would be interested in hearing from you with some pics

david656 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:37:26 am »

huh ! o opened them in windows picture fax viewer and saved them as .jpegs and they come out all black ! hummm, thats weird, ok sorry guys :-(

patrickl · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:45:57 am »

The pictures work fine for me. I used "Windows viewer" instead "Windows picture fax viewer" if that is any different. Doesn't work in MS Paint and I cannot save it to Jpeg though. Odd. Maybe a background color that is set to black? The white lines/texts do still show.

bvicarious · « **Reply #11 on:** January 24, 2008, 06:58:05 pm »

blah, the forum just ate a really long post I made. Anyway, heres an animation of one of the cabs I made. It goes by quick so here's the run down (in summary because I don't want to type all that up again

)

First I squared the base with 2x4s, screwed, glued, and clamped them down.

Then I put the front and back pieces up, made sure they lined up, glued them and screwed them along the bottom. Make sure you countersink your screws, unless you want them exposed.

After the front and back were secured I turned it on its side and put the side piece on, screwing through it and into the side of the front pieces. When screwing into the side of MDF you have to be careful not to get too close to the edge, or it'll kinda rip through it. If you can, get someone to help you move and position the side pieces. I had to do the whole thing alone and it took 3x longer than it should have.

I screwed 2x4s to the inside of the side pieces for the TV tray to slide onto.

The top pieces went together the same way, I made sure they were aligned with the back then clamped a 1x2 for the piece to rest on as I secured it in place. I think I used some L-brackets for extra support but they weren't really necessary.

There are a lot of ways to fit the marquee in. I routed a slot into the top most piece to slide the plexi into, then secured the bottom with a piece of wood wedged between the plexi and an L-bracket. Not the most professional way, but it worked. If you're going for a perfect replica of a moon patrol cab, I can't help you there.

Your control panel is a lot different than mine, looks like you can just screw it in from the sides like the other front pieces.. If the top part of it is metal you might want to consider just making it out of wood, and sanding down the front curve, unless you like bending metal.

One thing I noticed is the bottom of your control panel doesn't overlap over the front piece.. It'd be much easier if it did.

Well thats how I put mine together, hope it helps. If you want, you can give me the dimensions of each piece and I can put them into 3d space and make sure they'll all fit together with no gaps or other surprises.

northerngames · « **Reply #12 on:** January 24, 2008, 08:07:04 pm »

I have a barebone moon patrol cab if you need any measurements or pics.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #13 on:** January 25, 2008, 09:40:58 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on January 23, 2008, 03:09:35 pm

Moon Patrol is one of the few rasters that might become a keeper for me if I came across one. Great, great game. Classic music.

Now I have that song in my head. I actually don't mind.

I'll be following this project and very happy to see a new Moon Patrol come into the world.

same here. the cab looks great, the game plays great. one of the few games ive stayed up until the wee small hours on my cab...

david656 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 25, 2008, 08:18:14 pm »

Quote from: northerngames on January 24, 2008, 08:07:04 pm

I have a barebone moon patrol cab if you need any measurements or pics.

that would be brilliant !!!! i really need to know as much about the base, the marquee and lighting and control panel as possible, and if you really wanna be nice

how the bezel holds in too.

i don't want to take advantage but i need as much help as i can get, any pics of the inside of the machine would be a great help

thanks,

david

polaris · « **Reply #15 on:** January 25, 2008, 08:23:21 pm »

what happened to altered beast then?

this is better anyway, moon patrols an awesome game

northerngames · « **Reply #16 on:** January 26, 2008, 12:20:56 am »

I will take some picture's and take some measurments for you.

I still have the isolation transformer set-up that was stock it work still but it's age shows lol.

I also have the bottom coin door with the plastic coin box tub I also have the marquee retianer set.

I have the glass but it is blank with no art.

may have some other things laying around for it but that is pretty much it with the cab itself.

Havok · « **Reply #17 on:** January 26, 2008, 03:12:17 am »

So, are you done yet?

danny_galaga · « **Reply #18 on:** January 27, 2008, 07:17:13 pm »

how about now?

spacies · « **Reply #19 on:** January 27, 2008, 07:51:18 pm »

polaris · « **Reply #20 on:** January 27, 2008, 08:37:09 pm »

well its been 6 days and he said it was gonna take a month , so id say probably not.

david656 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 30, 2008, 01:19:36 pm »

lol my crappy class is SO slow ! i gotta wait for them all to finish there coursework before i can start! so i might have a word with my teacher,

i at the minute and playing with a jamma loom and a J-Pac ! maybe its my microswitches but i think the guy has put the wrong connectors on it ! they are too small for the male bits on the microswitches.

to the guy who is taking the pictures 'northerngames' thanks ! please hurry!

i have the PC done and dusted so why the guy won't let me get on with it i dunno :-(

the altered beast ! well its the same cab i was looking at, then i realised what the cab was, looked at how long it would take mucking about with the altered beast artwork and decided it wasn't effeciant, but im still building the cab woowwoow moon patrol !

err if you go onto ummm arcadenoise of something he has the full bezel on there reproduced !!

thanks for the on going support

i may post my coursework up for you all to have a look at, but shush because AQA get funny is they think your cheating

david656 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 31, 2008, 10:40:10 am »

good news i can start next week providing i get the sheets of MDF this weekend from B&Q or Wickes

so i will start posting when i begin

david656 · « **Reply #23 on:** March 19, 2008, 03:09:33 pm »

! well after months of thinking and redrawing here is a pic of my side panels finished !

its not the best picture in the world as i took it on my phone but you get the idea !

not bad for a 16 y/o ey !?

looking at that im hoping my 20 screen is gunna fit !

spacies · « **Reply #24 on:** March 19, 2008, 05:46:25 pm »

Nice work young fella!

golfboyusa · « **Reply #25 on:** March 21, 2008, 12:35:38 am »

Sounds like an ambitious project and time frame. I'll take the over on 50 hours to completion!!

WhiteComet · « **Reply #26 on:** March 21, 2008, 05:31:14 am »

looks good... all the best in finishing it in time

david656 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 21, 2008, 10:04:19 am »

thanks for the support and all ! the new dead line which is when teh moderator is coming in is end of april ! its looking tight but as im allowed to get the teacher to cut all teh inner shelves on the table saw that will save some time its just the side panels i had to do myself !

i gotta paint it and assemble it, luckily i got all the PC and TV ... in theory working ! i don't have a TV-OUT card in the PC im gunna use yet !

i have never done anything like this in my life ! so don't have a clue whats going to happen... i got a question,

i have drilled both panels indetically because there stuck together so i can screw in the shelfs and then fill over the screws BUT is it worth using support braces before i put it together or not? the whole thing is 18mm MDF and weighs a ton, im thinking 2 screws 1 dowel on each piece should do it, the dowel will hold it together whilst i line up it to do the screwing

now my teacher IS brilliant but is a very busy man and has told me i need special MDF screws but nothing more! so if i got to B&Q does anyone know what i gotta buy?

im privalaged to be able to do something so big ! the second biggest project is a childs cooker which is square anyway and the kid got his dad to litterally make it a flat pack ! (which isn't allowed)

david656 · « **Reply #28 on:** April 04, 2008, 01:49:02 pm »

hi

todays update,

first think to do was to get the side panels apart and after a bit of pushing and shuving and a few wedges here and there they were finaly apart and it was tec groupies 1 - sticky tape 0 ! BUT the tape left a nasty stick residue on the sides so with some white spirit, a cloth and a chisel i got it all off

next thing to do was to countersink the holes for the screw on panels

then as the sides were risen around the countersink i chiseled them smooth

then it was finally after a few hours today and months of sitting about time to put the bits i had together for the first time! luckily it seemed to go ok.

then there was just time to get a quick snap of the thing stood up with joe giving us a wave !

next update wednesday

SithMaster · « **Reply #29 on:** April 04, 2008, 07:32:59 pm »

Its great that you get to build it during school. I took shop class with the same intention my senior year of high school, but only made basic parts (back door, speaker panel, and cps). Anything that wouldnt fit inside the locked project cabinet would have been vandalized or destroyed the next day.

david656 · « **Reply #30 on:** April 10, 2008, 04:07:18 pm »

current status.... Well im really getting there now, most of the building is done and its soon onto the painting, with 3 hours officially and any time i can get after school its a race to the finish but i can see it getting closer !

(will upload pics in bout 10 mins photo buckets being anoying).

Franco B · « **Reply #31 on:** April 10, 2008, 04:48:59 pm »

Good work buddy, that coin door looks familiar

Have you designed your CP layout yet? What controls are you going for?

Are you still aiming for a multimedia cab for your form room? Is that what one of the lower shelfs is for? (some kind of AV equipment?)

What are you doing speaker wise?

david656 · « **Reply #32 on:** April 10, 2008, 04:54:11 pm »

that name does look familiar ! ;-)

well WOW go Mr C. ! i have brought my arcade control panel home as a piece of MDF and been given the change to draw out where the things are going and get on with it ! then in school drill and fit it.. anyone know the diameter of the buttons in mm?

well either way might as well keep it multimedia now .... but 6th form room seems unlikly ! the head of sixth form Andy Tetlow won £200+ on the horses this week so he should be happy ! i could maybe catch him at the right time but how much power do these things take!?

Freeview box and PS2

2.1 logitech bargin bin at maplins although were £25 !

Franco B · « **Reply #33 on:** April 10, 2008, 05:04:17 pm »

You will need to drill a 28mm (recommended) but you could get away with up to a 30mm hole using a Forster, spade or holesaw (depending what your shop has)

The OD (bezel) of the standard (Happ etc) button is 33.5mm.

If you come up with a design you like then let me know and I can print you out a full scale 2d model of the CP so you can use it to mark the hole centers etc for drilling.

(+_+) · « **Reply #34 on:** April 11, 2008, 03:37:28 pm »

Nice job so far. Here's something to motivate you.

http://www.digitpress.com/dpsoundz/moonpatr.wav

david656 · « **Reply #35 on:** April 27, 2008, 03:10:39 pm »

i will keep it short and sweet! don't wanna offend anyone here but i may be bringing a moon patrol shapped cab into the world but not for moon patrol !

got the CP done on thursday

and then on friday night i got it all done with artwork and fitted into the machine

then before i went home friday i had it all masked up ready to spray paint tomorrow (monday)

what does everyone think?

Portnoy · « **Reply #36 on:** April 28, 2008, 01:56:40 pm »

I think you will be playing your cab way before I get to play mine! I like the Quake theme on the CP ( it is Quake, no? ). Looking good!!

P

SithMaster · « **Reply #37 on:** April 28, 2008, 06:31:57 pm »

Quote from: Portnoy on April 28, 2008, 01:56:40 pm

I think you will be playing your cab way before I get to play mine! I like the Quake theme on the CP ( it is Quake, no? ). Looking good!!

P

I didn't notice that. Yep that's the Quake logo.

david656 · « **Reply #38 on:** April 29, 2008, 01:02:07 pm »

yup ! Quake !! its all matching the CP, the front panel, the bezel and the marquee which when fitted will say 'Quake' and then underneith 'Arcade'

although it will be mostly mame i will try and get the quake games into mameWAH and it gives me a excuse to make another cab and network them !

and before anyone says :-O "thats a console game.... get it right!" actually for a short time it was a arcade game... check klov for details BUT although the marquee will be very simiar to the original all the artwork is my own compilation.

do people like my artwork used? i will maybe upload it all for people to see

david656 · « **Reply #39 on:** April 30, 2008, 04:56:07 pm »

the machine is finito ! DONE !!!


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