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Any good concepts for a larger panel in my Defender cab?

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daveg2000:
Good call guys.

Like I mentioned - I want the machine to look normal when done, and
covering up the coin door obviously would make it look like
a freak machine.... I definately dont want to do that....

good ideas on 'widening' the panel though...  too bad that
coin door is so close to the top of the panel... :(

 :-\

Lilwolf:
search for the moduler examples.  If done right they look amazing... And give you WAY more options!

sWampy:
Wierd, I just ordered a spinner for my defender cabinet, and am going to start tonight the process of making a bigger control panel.   I'm just planning on raising the panel up to the height of the sides, like 2 inches, and extend the front 5 inches or so and round it off like the one pictured below.   I want to raise it up to the top of the sides for extra room for trackball and buttons and bottom while leaving room to open the coin door.  I don't plan on 4 player though, the defender cabinet just seems to small to try to cram 4 people around.

RayB:
Another reason to go modular, other than aesthetics, is that otherwise you'll be smashing your hand against a joystick when you go nuts with the trackball.

mahuti:
I use swappable panels on my defender. Right now I just have 2. I'm in the process of building a 3rd just for tron. The thing about the defender is that it's really not a big stretch to build an entirely new panel every time you want different controls since the board is completely flat.  It's still a bit tight for 2 players, but it works fine... many of the original 2 player machines were this wide, so I just tough it out on 2 player fighting games, etc.

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