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Title: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: lokesen on May 14, 2010, 02:57:02 am: This i my latest design.

I made it with my brother who wanted a cabinet looking something like the Taito Jungle Hunt, but with a smaller footprint. Then I designet the cabinet and control panel in Autocad. He build the cabinet himself and designed the Artwork.

To see all the pictures and info, visit my homepage here:

http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/ (http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/)

Woring Drawings and control panel drawings finally online. Get them here:
TaitoRama Drawings (http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/drawtaitorama.htm)

I hope to have the drawings and artwork ready to download in a day or two.

(http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/taito6.jpg)

(http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/taito10.jpg)

(http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/taito11.jpg)

(http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/taito12.jpg)

(http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/taito19.jpg)

(http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/taito23.jpg)

(http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/taito26.jpg)

(http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/taito31.jpg)

(http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/taito34.jpg)
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: Lo_Wire on May 14, 2010, 05:02:18 am: Love the 80's design VERY cool! :o
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: emphatic on May 14, 2010, 07:23:41 am: Very classy! :applaud:
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: drventure on May 14, 2010, 07:41:41 am: Nice job. Is that all painted MDF or laminate. If it's painted, that's a great paintjob!
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: emphatic on May 14, 2010, 11:37:44 am: I went to your site to see the rest of the pictures and I gotta say that the CPO is very inspiring (that the tilted lines go through the button holes especially). I might have to steal that idea the next time I design a CPO.
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: RandomCitizenX on May 14, 2010, 12:51:52 pm: Bravo. I really enjoy this design, even if it makes me envious of your metal CP >:D
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: Silas (son of Silas) on May 14, 2010, 02:16:36 pm: Hot Damn.. he does it again. I love it.
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: lokesen on May 14, 2010, 03:17:20 pm: Quote from: Silas (son of Silas) on May 14, 2010, 02:16:36 pm
Hot Damn.. he does it again. I love it.

Thanks, but remember, I only designed the cabinet and control panel, my brother did the excellent artwork and we found the inspiration from the classic Taito Jungle Hunt cabinet together :)
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: opt2not on May 14, 2010, 03:59:00 pm: Very nice cabinet! Clean and stylish. :applaud:
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: NIVO on May 14, 2010, 05:58:53 pm: artwork flows with the cab design perfectly. Very nicely executed! :applaud:
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: opt2not on May 14, 2010, 06:30:11 pm: Quote from: opt2not on May 14, 2010, 03:59:00 pm
Very nice cabinet! Clean and stylish. :applaud:

I forgot to say, it's too bad the artwork stripes don't continue up the bezel, and somehow connect to the marquee. That would look cool, me thinks. But (again), that's me being nit-picky...
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: lokesen on May 15, 2010, 04:34:28 am: Quote from: opt2not on May 14, 2010, 06:30:11 pm
Quote from: opt2not on May 14, 2010, 03:59:00 pm
Very nice cabinet! Clean and stylish. :applaud:

I forgot to say, it's too bad the artwork stripes don't continue up the bezel, and somehow connect to the marquee. That would look cool, me thinks. But (again), that's me being nit-picky...

I agree :) I hope to see others building this cabinet with other artwork ;)
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: Danonyte on May 16, 2010, 10:25:24 pm: Is there tmolding on that build? Cause i read throught the build on the site and i didnt see anything about tmolding.
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: mh12 on May 17, 2010, 10:25:59 am: awwwwwesome
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: lokesen on May 17, 2010, 10:57:20 am: Quote from: Danonyte on May 16, 2010, 10:25:24 pm
Is there tmolding on that build? Cause i read throught the build on the site and i didnt see anything about tmolding.

No tmolding, but my next project is going to be laminated and with tmolding ;)
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: Danonyte on May 17, 2010, 12:00:55 pm: Thanks for clearing that up, you and Knievel, have been the reason i want to build my machine. Thanks, and awesome JOB
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: Silas (son of Silas) on May 17, 2010, 02:03:00 pm: Quote from: lokesen on May 17, 2010, 10:57:20 am
No tmolding, but my next project is going to be laminated and with tmolding ;)

A Lokesen cab that's laminated with T-Molding? I've got one of those, I can wholeheartedly recommend it ;)
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: mustafab1 on May 18, 2010, 06:55:08 am: This design is awesom! Very retro! I Like the lines on the CP. :applaud:
I like your buildings a lot! That's why I used one of your cabs as an example. Keep up the good work dude!
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: lokesen on May 19, 2010, 11:29:48 am: Working drawings for the cabinet and control panel is finally online:

http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/drawtaitorama.htm (http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/drawtaitorama.htm)

Artwork coming in a few days ;)
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: ninjasquirrel on May 19, 2010, 12:20:47 pm: :applaud: great design! Really like the vintage feel, everything flows so smoothly!
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: thatitalian on May 19, 2010, 05:25:53 pm: ANOTHER ONE! Man, you are quick! :notworthy:

Great design! :applaud:
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: shrunkenmaster on May 26, 2010, 04:47:52 pm: Hey lokosen,
Great cab! Loving the artwork - what font did you use for the marquee's TAITO-RAMA?
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: superjailhouse on May 27, 2010, 06:57:10 pm: Thanks for the nice comments about my arcade, makes me want to build another. I agree that the stripes shold continue up the bezel for a more coherent look. I have also planned to add the classical Taito sideart in matching colors. I'll keep you posted ;)

Now for the question about the font used in the bezel. I haven't used a specific font. I was heavily inspired by the Bomb Jack Marquee and manually redrew some of the letters in Illustrator in order to form TaitoRama.
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: opt2not on January 13, 2017, 03:40:35 am: Bumping another old fav for #makeBYOACgreatagain

Notice how these greats have proper themes and names that don't include "cade", "retro" or "Pi" in them?
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: Mike A on January 13, 2017, 07:55:34 am: Thanks for the bump on this one. I really like it.
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: Nephasth on January 13, 2017, 09:33:02 am: Got all excited for a fresh Taito only to find a necro-bump...
Title: Re: TaitoRama - New & finished project
Post by: Automark on January 16, 2017, 03:52:26 pm: Because of TS i came back to this hobby a few years ago

http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/ (http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/) gave me so much info, thanks for all of it :applaud: