Various arcade related projects
Small update – TMolding.com order arrived today with 40ft of white + a slot cutter and arbor piece. These cutters are cheap when buying from the states ($18) compared with locally ($38+). Order tmolding at the same time as a cutter to combine postage is a good way to save some money 🙂
Although painting is a little while off, I decided to start investigating the blue I will need to use. After having trouble getting the right yellow for the pacman cab, I figured I would start early and be ready once the time came.
This time, the colour turned out much simpler. First stop was to bunnings to collect some paint cards.
With today being a public holiday (Australia Day), I decided to spend an hour in the garage cutting some holes out for the handles and coin door.
I had been debating with myself about the value of handles on each side of the cocktail. In the end I figured they would be useful for moving it around (since there will be no wheels). I like that it will also mean people won’t need to lift the cocktail by the top panel, and instead just use the handles which should avoid any stress on the table top panel.
The handles are a vented set – I used the same ones on the door of my pac man cab – so will add some passive ventilation. They are also set into the panel itself, meaning there is nothing sticking out. The black colour will also fit in well with the DK theme.
A tiny update, but the artwork for the control panels arrived today from GameOnGrafix.
This has been a very busy week working on the cab. Firstly, my new monitor arrived Many, many thanks to a friend on Aussie Arcade for his assistance in getting it to my door!
I was not going to continue the quest with sorting out the jumping on the VGA monitor. The solution set me back around $240 for the monitor and chassis (with postage) but it puts an end to the problem and I can get the cab complete Plus it means I can play Wonderboy (and now Bubble Bobble too) with an awesome display Since the monitor had arrived, I organised a mate to lend a hand with it’s installation the following saturday (and any issues that were to be encountered).
So first up was to pull the VGA monitor and frame out, and put in a new one. I spent the first night building a new frame. It was done the same way as the first – a flat panel, with a huge hole cut in the middle. I added some raised parts for the actual monitor frame to attach to. Primed and painted with a few coats (over the rest of the week).
