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Pixel Troll Arcade (COMPLETE!)
Dafu:
I'm back to working on the cabinet itself. I've spent a few nights extruding the coin door panel. I needed to do this because the new control panel sticks out too much, making it awkward to reach the coin slots. Originally I wanted to do nice big curves like Mountain did on his coin panel extrusion, but decided that it will probably be too much work trying to get the curves nice and smooth. Instead I borrowed the biggest round edge router bit I could find, and used that to curve out the edges. I'm pretty happy with the result, but it turns out that the control panel doesn't exactly rest on the extrusion like I intended, its about 1/8" above it, so I'll have to glue on a sheet of 1/8" mdf next.
javeryh:
Man, that is one nice looking CP.
Arca-noid:
Nice control panel Guy.... :applaud:
Dafu:
I started painting the cabinet few nights ago. Here are some photos after 2 coats of tinted primer, and 1 coat of black paint. I'm using alkyd enamel primer and paint. I took these photos when the paint was still fresh, so it looks a lot more glossy than it will be in the end, I picked a satin finish. I'm sanding in between in each coat on all visible surfaces. The inside parts of the cabinet are not sanded, and painted rather carelessly, I mostly just wanted to seal up the mdf on the inside.
I still need to apply 1 to 2 coats of paint, and a coat of clear coat.
BurningBeard:
Your CP looks awesome :notworthy: