APB Bartop

[brock.sampson]

I'm making a bartop for a friend of mine as a thank you for all the football parties he has hosted.  It's based on the weecade basic shell.  It was originally going to be a Nebraska Husker themed bartop.  I recently saw the artwork for APB and thought that would be much funnier because he is a police officer.  Here are a couple of quick shots of the cabinet.  Haven't made a ton of progress but slowly getting there.  I have the computer, monitor and all the arcade parts.  Computer is configured just need to cleanup the game list a little.  Planning on doing joystick, six button layout and likely a 3" trackball.  I'll see if I can cram all that in.  Last few days I've been working on vectorizing the sideart.  This isn't the standard side art I started with that but that was a little too much for me.  I found a similar picture in one of the hyperspin apb themes and decided to use that instead.  I have the guy pretty well done need to work on the steering wheel and the top of the car and lights.  I may have to stretch him a little tall to make it fit.  That's fine with me I'm not going for a replica I just thought that side art would be hilarious.  Let me know what you think.

[severdhed]

looks cool, good job so far.  i'm sure your buddy will love it.(if not, he is not really the kind of person you should be hanging out with anyway)

make sure you post lots of pics

[solowCX]

Looks good so far, APB was a great game.

Are you going to try to incorporate lights into the top like the real cabinet?

[brock.sampson]

It will have an apb marquee similar to the original but won't be flashing like the original.  That's a little beyond my abilities, timeline, and budget.

[brock.sampson]

Finished up vectorizing base side art.  Will likely have to adjust it a little to fit the sides.  I think it turned out pretty good for my first vector job let me know what you think.

Also the images I was working from.  Took parts from both.

[leapinlew]

Looks good!

Any chance you could use his badge or department seal instead of the APB badge?

[brock.sampson]

Where were you last night before I started vecortizing the marquee, jk.  That's possibility, not sure if the sargent badge is different or not I'll have to do a little research.  Attached is a pic of the opd badge not sure how that would look as it's all silver will blue inset.  The sides of the patrol car just say police.  I may play around with it tonight.

Edit maybe I could use that for the marquee and put police on the side of the car instead of the abp star.  I'll try a few tonight and see how it turns out.

[dkssprs]

I love the artwork!!!!

[brock.sampson]

Made some modest progress over the weekend.  Fighting bronchitis most of last week.    Got the back door on, computer and hard drive mounted, added rails for the plexiglass.  Still need to build the admin panel that will be below the screen and then start on the cp.  I'll try and get some pics up tomorrow my camera batteries are dead at the moment.  Didn't get much of a chance to work on artwork looking for more images of the opd badge.  Hoping to find a sticker or something that would be easier to trace.