Announcing Jessicade ! New Control Panel Added !

[buks]

I've finally got round to uploading some piccies of my cab - take a look and let me know what you think !

The cab is a hybrid Lucid with UAII style (using guesswork on dimensions rather than buying the plans)

Cab runs Windows XP, Mamewah (for mame and daphne), TV connected via VGA-SCART Cable

All controls are Ultimarc

Except the Oscar spinner

the cab is named after my daughter (14 months old at time of writing)

Its been a lot of fun !

Currently designing a new CPO and CP as I decided I didn't like the "wings" of the large CP I have now.

Heres the link to my blog - http://buks01.blogspot.com/

Thanks for just about everyone for advice !

[RayB]

the cab is named after my daughter (14 months old at time of writing)

I was expecting a cab themed to Jessica Simpson. Heh

[AlanS17]

Considering all the talk she's gotten on this board lately, me too.

[missioncontrol]

I too was fooled by the subject line..............

[Jessica Simpson]

Sure it is named after your daughter.....

Looking good. I am so jealous of anyone that can get Daphne working. 

[buks]

he he he - thanks for all the comments guys (and JS).

Need to get my sh*t together and finalize the CPO before taking it to work to get printed and laminated. It will be at a University media shop as I work nearby and they seem pretty cheap. If it's rubbish then hopefully I won't have wasted too much money !

[buks]

Just added a couple of posts to the blog, namely :

• Tournament results - victory at last !
• Coin door has been added !

Go see at www.buks01.blogspot.com

[ChadTower]

Yep, a nice Boonga Boonga converted to a Jessica Simpson themed cab.

[buks]

Done a fair few updates to the blog since my last post :

• Coin door lights
• Lightgun info
• New CPO info
• Yet another tournament
• Mamewah skin

Hopefully next weekend I will start on the new CP - the print quality of my CPO is superb. I'm very happy with the laminate too. Might not be for the purist but I like it !

[buks]

Posted pics of the new control panel on the blog - www.buks01.blogspot.com.

Also added details of the previous tournament.

Still need to do some touching up with the paint but not looking too bad !

Feel free to comment. But be gentle....

[Timoe]

I like the color scheme on your CP.  Especially the buttons.

[buks]

Cheers Timoe. I spent a long time, too long in fact, deciding on the colours. The orange buttons were originally for pinball buttons on the side of the CP but I eventually used them for mouse buttons instead.

Next up the the list is getting the lightgun(s) working. But I'm toying with the idea of getting some old car speaker covers and painting them (red outer and yellow over the speaker mesh) - which I think would look cool and in "theme" as it were.

Then of course is the bezel.....

And maybe some side art .....

And doing the whole paintwork AGAIN ....