So here I am and I have new pics to show. Have had a few "bumps" in the road which really slowed down my progress.
First I've discovered that I really didn't know what I was doing when I was trying to smooth it out. While I was trying to smooth it out with bondo, I kept on sanding almost through the fiberglass at different point which caused it to bubble after I "thought" that it was smooth. To fix this I had to cut it away with an exacto knife and bondo it some more. Was a never ending battle. Then I was watching "Motor Cycle Mania" with Jessee and saw how to do it properly.
Then my dog wanted to chase some bird, tripped on my sander that was still plugged in and the cord threw my pedestal to the gound cracking all the way down one side where the computer case attached to the wood. It also cracked the feet really bad.
Then, we had a really violent rain and wind storm and it soaked it causing it to crack in a few places. I guess from the wood expanding.
But I wasn't going to give up and I fixed it all. Right now its all sanded down to 400 grit with a coat of primer on it. I'm not going to gel coat it until the second half is done so I can make sure that the color matches.
I have also completed the wiring for the control panel. That was quite an undertaking. All tested and ready to go.



Here are pics of the wiring. Let me explain a little about it. I went with the keywiz, well because I'm cheap. So I ran into a few problems. I have a 4 player CP. Player 1 and 2 have 7 buttons and 3 and 4 have 4 buttons. That gives me 34 joystick/button inputs needed and then I have 10 utility buttons. Well, the keywiz has 32 direct inputs and appox 20 shazaam key inputs. I could have hooked it up to all 32 direct inputs and then used the extra two buttons with the shazaam function. But every time those buttons would be used it would have shifted it to the shazaam function. It would have been a logistical nightmare. So what I did was I used a switch that shifted the buttons between all the players. When in 2 player mode. All seven buttons are active for players 1/2 but players 3/4 only have 1 active button. In 4 player mode. Three buttons from 1/2, the far two left and the stand alone bottom button inputs are shifted to 3/4 giving players 3/4 4 total buttons. I don't think that this is going to be a problem, as I can't think of any 4 player games that need more than 4 buttons. If there is. Well, guess I won't play them.
I've included a pic of a visio drawing that I was using to keep track of all of this. Also, I just ordered the rest of the stuff that I needed (2 more joysticks and 8 more buttons.) But the wiring has been completed for it.

Here's a closer shot since my camera sucks.



The Viso pic looks pretty bad. My layout is actually about 5 feet and when I reduced the size for the pic, it lost a lot of detail. But it should give you an idea.

Here is a link to the original file. Its only 280kb. But for some reason my web host wouldn't let me upload a .vsd file. So make sure that you rename it to .vsd to view it.
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