Main > Project Announcements
"The Griffin" - Finished August 28, 2010!
yo1dog:
Fabulous project. I hope to do one similar soon. Are you going to be posting your blueprints and materials list? This is a great project for newcomers to look at.
SephYuyX:
Thanks :) And I include an updated material list at the end of each post. As far as the blueprints, im not sure yet, but maybe :p
Gorotsuki:
Great job!
That Griffin artwork is going to be awesome.
27 inch Trinitron, bet your still aching from lifting that beast.
Got one myself, they do have a good picture with the svideo.
SephYuyX:
Welp, so the time has come to prime and paint, but first comes priming, how I hate thee. Before shot.
After first coat. Took about an hour to do this, it just soaked up so much primer. I originally wanted to prime the whole thing.. but meh, figured id forgo that and just prime what was necessary.
After te second coat. Went much faster, probably 20 minutes, and most of the time was filling in the seams between panels because I didnt want to putty them. Still not sure if im going to regret that or not. Probably, but hopefully a lot of finish coats of paint will solve that. It wont be noticable anyway.
I have to say it looks better than staring at brown MDF, but only half way there. Now I just need to sand again, and find the right kind of paint. Some spots need a bit of heavy sanding, but nothing too bad, shouldnt take a long time.
Ah yes, so this is the near final verion of the side art. I say near final just because I havent asked anyone to take a look over it yet. Im pretty happy with it, so itll probably stay the same, maybe some slight changes if anything. The red line just the template. Just remembered I forgot to add the cost of the griffin to the spread sheet, oh well next time. But that whole thng was an ordea; istockphoto is a horrible company, but tend to have good artists, so i had to bite the bullet. They have tiers of credits you can buy, of course you cant buy 1 at a time, only 12, or 26, 40, etc. This one cost 20 creds, so ofcourse I would have to buy the 26 creds, wasting money. Luckily I found someone giving out 10 free creds, so only had to buy the 12 cred package for 19$ Luckily the artist was nice enough to make this two images in one, where it's possible to remove the placard. I know what youre thinking 'you didnt draw/make it' oh well, im not that good, and only 10 other people in the world have this same image, so its original enough.
And here is the CPO art, again, something I was worried about, but I think itll come out good. Designing arty stuff is not my strong point, but oh well, it's better than my original idea of the blue and red thing.
Annnd the marquee. Finding a good font was hard, but I think this one will work out good. Im not sure sure if I want to keep in that color though. After looking back at the CPO and side art, I think the marquee is lacking something, I think i may add a background to it. Theres a line between something busy, and not busy at all, but this image seems it may need some busyness.
Material List and Total Cost at the moment.
Havok:
--- Quote from: yo1dog on June 15, 2010, 10:19:59 am ---Fabulous project. I hope to do one similar soon. Are you going to be posting your blueprints and materials list? This is a great project for newcomers to look at.
--- End quote ---
This is basically an Ultimate Arcade II:
http://www.mameroom.com/ProductDetail.asp?ID=UAIIPLANS