This is my design for a Retro-Futuristic arcade cabinet project named Astro. This project covered in detail my different approaches to crafting the various components of the rendered concept you see below.
In the early stages I updated this thread regularly often several times a week. Progress was good and the community here at BYOAC helped to both inspire and motivate me to do the best work I could. As you can see I came close to realising my vision.
Two things ultimately stopped this in its tracks. One was a design flaw which only became apparent after quite a few years. Though the build neared completion I was unhappy with cracking and warping in the lower part of the cabinet due to expansion and contraction of plywood over the seasons. The project slowly stalled with a few false starts here and there.
Then came the Photobucket debacle which wiped out all my images over some 40+ pages. To be honest I just wanted the whole mess to go away at that point. Foolishly I removed my own text from the thread which, without the accompanying images made little sense. Much was lost to BYOAC, but even more was lost to me because I gave up on the project.
Dispirited I left the forum and the cabinet sat gathering dust under a sheet in my workshop for many months. One day I had a light bulb moment. “What if I could fix not only the warping/cracking problem but any other things about the cabinet I didn’t like?”. I was no longer on the forum, I could do whatever I wanted with the cabinet. From the proverbial ashes…..well you know the saying. I sat down and redesigned the cab, the concept, the premise, the backstory everything.
So now the project is re-born here -
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,158083.0.htmlThanks for looking and taking an interest – OND.