I have completed my machine over christmas

[Hurray Banana]

I submitted my project a couple of months ago and now I've finished.

Hop over to my site for more details.

http://www.geocities.com/hurraybanana
or
http://www.hurraybanana.tk

What do you think?

[menace]

not bad at all but i'm confused with players 1 and 4--are they to stand at right angles to the monitor?  the joysticks look angled slightly but the buttons look completely turned--maybe its just the photo

[Hurray Banana]

They stand at 45 degree angles. It looks kind of weird but it works.

I was going to chop of the corners of the cp but didn't want this to affect my pinball flippers.

I may rebuild the cp in a few months time, now that I've got better with me tools.

[somunny]

I like the name.    Nice job.

Coop

[Hurray Banana]

Thanks.

The name came from one of my girlfriends daughters, who kept asking when "the machine" would be finished.

So I kept hearing this and though yeah that's what I'll call it!

[flampoo]

Looks good. Just curious... Why did you mount the T-Sticks on top of the cp?

[MinerAl]

Looks sharp!  Is it a UA2 design?  What's the profile look like?

[Hurray Banana]

I mounted them on top to get more stick height.

When I'm playing I like to be able to change my grip on a joystick. Sometimes i like to push and pull the shaft and other times (depends on the game or section of a game) I like to grab the pear top.

[Hurray Banana]

The design is from scratch. I've got a load of pics at my site

http://www.geocities.com/hurraybanana/construction.htm
http://www.geocities.com/hurraybanana/cabinet.htm

I haven't got a direct profile shot at the mo (don't know why I didn't take one!)

I sort of sketched it from what I thought the shape of the machine should look like. I made several changes when I actually started laying my measurements out onto my plywood, so it's not exactly like my scale drawing.

Thanks for the comment

[GameOver]

Very different, very nice.  You can tell when a project has been planned out and someone took their time to do a good job.  I like it!  Well done.

What's that little Pac Man model in some of your pics (next to the Mario beanies)?  Where'd ya get it?

[Hurray Banana]

Thanks nice comment.

The pac man model is what sort of started me off. They are scale scans from called paper arcade. There is a website devoted to them follow this link

http://www.wayoftherodent.com/pa/pa_staff.htm

They print to a single sheet of A4 and you fold em and glue em. They are pretty cool.

They've added som new ones recently like Dragon's Lair. Let me know what you think.

[GameOver]

Sweet - going there now!  The wife is gonna think I'm outta my mind....I love the Drangon's Lair cab, hope they have Robotron and Tempest too!  I see what I'll be doing during my 3 days off this week. 

[Hurray Banana]

My lass things I'm completely mad as well

Let me know how you get on and post some pics

[crashwg]

I love what you did with mounting of  the T-Sticks!  It looks like they are supposed to be mounted that way. 

[Hurray Banana]

Thanks.

It would be good if you could make a mounting plate like the ones used for trackballs.

If I was any good at welding then I'd probably have a go at this.

I was a bit dubious of my idea when I cut the plastic and painted it with Humbrol. But I actually like the effect it makes up for not being able to get green and orange pear tops for the t-sticks.