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Title: DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: sTyLeS on July 11, 2004, 11:26:54 pm
Well, my beast of a cabinet is now complete. Website here: http://webpages.charter.net/altman/dragoncade (http://webpages.charter.net/altman/dragoncade). I'm just so happy to have it completed. I really enjoyed working on it, and I certainly learned a lot. Much of what I learned was from many of you guys here, so thanks.

Here are a couple pics:

(http://webpages.charter.net/altman/dragoncade/full_cab_flash.jpg)

And here's one with the lights out:

(http://webpages.charter.net/altman/dragoncade/lights_out.jpg)


Make sure you check out my website (linked above), and enjoy.
-sTyLeS
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: Generic Eric on July 12, 2004, 03:40:25 am
I like the funky marquee holder bezel window you got there.  Noticed you have quite a polish (as in furniture polish not the control panel from poland) job on the control panel.
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: sTyLeS on July 12, 2004, 09:03:24 am
Quote from: generic_eric on July 12, 2004, 03:40:25 am
I like the funky marquee holder bezel window you got there.  Noticed you have quite a polish (as in furniture polish not the control panel from poland) job on the control panel.

Yeah, I wanted a slightly more unique look for the marquee, so I just bought some interesting moulding and made a frame to mount the marquee behind. The marquee is sandwiched between to pieces of plexi-glass. The control panel also shines because of the plexi-glass covering the overlay.
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: pcdoctor on July 12, 2004, 03:42:17 pm
Very unique!
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: pcdoctor on July 12, 2004, 03:51:28 pm
How big is your monitor?
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: sTyLeS on July 12, 2004, 04:29:07 pm
Quote from: pcdoctor on July 12, 2004, 03:51:28 pm
How big is your monitor?


It's a 27" television. You can check out some more of the specs here http://webpages.charter.net/altman/dragoncade (http://webpages.charter.net/altman/dragoncade)
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: MameMaster! on July 12, 2004, 05:10:06 pm
....great job and very cool Marquee. I think your banner as side art is a neat idea.

Enjoy your cool new cab!

MameMaster!  8)
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: sTyLeS on July 13, 2004, 08:06:22 am
Quote from: mamemaster on July 12, 2004, 05:10:06 pm
....great job and very cool Marquee. I think your banner as side art is a neat idea.

Enjoy your cool new cab!

MameMaster!  8)

Thanks. And I am enjoying it... :D
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: sTyLeS on July 20, 2004, 11:24:48 am
I do have a question concerning light guns, however. What have many people done to mount light guns on the cabinet? I've read that pvc pipe can work. Does anyone have any pics of this type of solution? Or does anyone have any other suggestions for mounting light guns to the side of this cabinet?
Thanks.
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: sTyLeS on August 13, 2004, 01:30:16 pm
I'd like to give Matt and Scott a great big "thank you" for thinking enough of my control panel to want to emulate it in their own cabinets. I wish you guys a lot of luck, and make sure we all see your finished products.
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: greywolf22 on August 13, 2004, 05:12:56 pm
Styles,

Your cabinet turned out awesome...really like the theme and the control panel overlay.  Really great job on the cabinet as a whole.
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: simplygriff on August 19, 2004, 11:08:56 am
That looks really nice.  Do you have the paint code/brand of your cab?  The blue looks like it matches the joystick & buttons perfectly which is what I'm trying to do.
-G
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: sTyLeS on August 19, 2004, 07:18:45 pm
Quote from: simplygriff on August 19, 2004, 11:08:56 am
Do you have the paint code/brand of your cab?  The blue looks like it matches the joystick & buttons perfectly which is what I'm trying to do.
-G

I think I was just lucky with it matching the way it did. I just picked a color that I really liked, and it worked out well.

It is Enterprise brand paint from Lowe's. It's an Interior Latex Semi-gloss. The color is called "Lapis Blue", and the code from the color swatch is "248-6".

I put multiple coats, sanded in between each one, on top of the multi-purpose primer which was also sanded.
Title: Re:DragonCade completed! PICS and website.
Post by: simplygriff on August 20, 2004, 11:32:08 am
Thanks for the info.
-G