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Raiden Cab Project - New Pics with coin door. 98% finished (for now)
BurgerKingDiamond:
Hey. I've been looking at this forum for a few days and some of these projects have blown my mind. In particular the viewlix slim cab, bender foldable mini bartop, and especially the futuristic one made by the Australian guy (sorry I don't remember your name). Anyways, I just recently finished my own cabinet which I built with the help of this book : http://www.amazon.com/Project-Arcade-Build-Your-Machine/dp/0764556169/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254715706&sr=8-1. I want to show it off a little and see what you guys think about it. Also I want some opinions on what to do with the control panel artwork. Right now it is plain black, but I'm a little bored with it and want to add sth. I didn't originally have a direction for the art, I just decided to go with Raiden since i found an original marquee and I happen to like shmups.
-In the pic of the full cab the sideart is just done in photoshop for now. Right now the only actual art on the cab is the marquee.
-The other two pics are just ideas I did in photoshop.
I want to keep a blue color scheme going to tie in with the controls and the marquee. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. and if anyone gets inspired to create sth that would be awesome! :applaud:
BurgerKingDiamond:
Oh. also, before anyone nominates me for crapmame >:D, I know there are some issues with the bezel that I haven't worked out yet. They stick out like a sore thumb on the control panel shots. Oh, also I forgot to mention that the monitor rotates. I made the rotation setup by mounting the monitor to a lazy susan. However, because of where the power cords come out of the back I wasn't able to mount the monitor in the exact center (it is a little low). As a result, when the monitor is in the rotated (counter clockwise) to the vertical position it is a little off center towards the right. It looks ok though in the horizontal position.
bradx:
the control panel is enormous for such a simple setup.
BurgerKingDiamond:
There is a lot of empty real estate, but I wanted to be able to comfortably play 2 player fighting games without bumping elbows.
syph007:
I've never seen a 6 button group at that extreme of an angle. Does that really work well for fighters?