My (yet untitled) Pincab - a neverending story

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Just wanted to share some pics of my (still wip) pinball cab:

The "original" cab - almost all guts were missing...

After painting the cab black (the original painting was in terrible shape) I had to build a (slightly smaller) backbox:

Here is the Backbox with Backglass and "DMD":

This is how I digitalized the Plunger with a micro switch:

Horray, its alive!!

The illuminated buttons, flasher, strobe and launch ball indicator. I use the original "coin-reject" button of the coindoor for inserting coins:

Another pic of the flasher and its bezel:

After assembling everything I thought it would be a good idea to install another 2 speakers right under the playfield. Those 2 speakers only play the table sounds like coins, bumper, rolling sound and no music. The 2 speakers in the backbox are only playing the sound effects and music from the rom.

"Cool, now It´s done" I thought.....then I had another idea.....

5 flashers are better than 3 - and so I installed 2 more flashers at not so common positions:

Now its finished - not! Why? because I had another idea....

To avoid the playfield being scratched by my cats (they think its quite funny jumping from the glass on the backbox and back) I have to install a topper (I chose an emergency light).

Here is a pic of my cab with open coindoor and triggered topper

Now, as the cab is almost done I tought about a new project: A TARDIS Arcade cab.

Unfortunately I have no room for that right now (I have to sell the pinball first), so I´ll convert the pinball cab into a cool steampunk pinball - hopefully.....

[Mike Fishcake]

This has made me want to investigate PinballX even more

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This has made me want to investigate PinballX even more

I just saw your cocktail cab.

This reminds me of my first arcade cab:

and my Convertible Pin

Now I built a pinball cab (I bought the "hull" at a garage sale, to my suprise my wife advised me to buy it (this is why I love her ))

As mentioned in my original post I´ll start building a TARDIS with an arcade cab in it (this was also an idea of my wife ) if I find a way to get some room and money (e.g. selling the pinball cab)

Projects are getting bigger each time I start one - and so will yours ;-)

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I uploaded a short video.

Sorry, the video is pretty shaky, but it is not that easy to record a video with one and playing pinball with the other hand...

[stigzler]

Kudos to you, Censored... this is awesome!

A pincab is on my list, although realistically a few years down the line. Hopefully by that time, all the 3D stuff will have been licked. Few months ago, I saw a vid where some fella had to (IR?) things on his head, and as he moved his head the display playfield moved accordingly - gave an amazing 3d effect - wish I could find this link again to keep track of its development!

Are they using 3D TVs yet in pin emulation?

Loved the touch of speakers under the playfield for localised sound production.

Inspirational.

[KRC]

Great work on this Censored !

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Few months ago, I saw a vid where some fella had to (IR?) things on his head, and as he moved his head the display playfield moved accordingly - gave an amazing 3d effect - wish I could find this link again to keep track of its development!

Thats BAM and Future Pinball with PS3 cams and IR. I tried that thing with an installed Kinect (cause you dont need those IR things on your head with this). The 3D Effect is great - for about 10 Minutes. But if you stopped dancing in front of your cab trying out every possible angle, it is quite unnecessary (for me). Why?

First of all I like Visual Pinball more than Future Pinball. The second thing is.....well.... I am standing pretty still in front of my cab, following the ball with my eyes, not the head when playing pinball, so the 3D Effect is almost gone.

[MNMax21]

What size TV did you fit in the existing pinball box?

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Its is an 42" TV.

Well, it did not really fit - I had to cut out the sides of the cab a little bit (I cut out as much of the side parts as will be covered by the steelbars. Then I "raised" the LCD on the "players"-side as much as possible (until it touches the playfield glass) to give the playfield a little bit of depth.

[MNMax21]

Did u remove the TV housing? The table looks awesome. Nice job.

[tthurman]

Man, this makes me want a pin cab so bad!

[Adultery]

Me too. My step dad is an auctioneer, I have him watching for a gutted one. I'd love a new project... The wife may not agree, however.

[Draco1962]

+1 on the TARDIS arcade cab plans! That might be the only way I can convince my wife to let me venture into building one (she is almost as much of a Doctor Who fan as I am). It helps that her dad is one as well and has the tools and know-how with wood working.

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Did u remove the TV housing? The table looks awesome. Nice job.

Yes, I removed it (Its pretty easy to manage that)

+1 on the TARDIS arcade cab plans! That might be the only way I can convince my wife to let me venture into building one (she is almost as much of a Doctor Who fan as I am). It helps that her dad is one as well and has the tools and know-how with wood working.

If I´ll ever do that I´ll post the plans here. But as I mentioned before I would have to sell the pinball first for the room and money (I think the Tardis would cost about EUR 1.500). So first I´ll think about giving the pinball an unique steampunk design...

[stigzler]

If you're making a Tardis - couldn't you make it inside itself? You'd have all the space you needed then.

(above based on 32 year old memories of Doctor Who).

[Draco1962]

I saw this TARDIS cab page a few years back. Here is the builder's build page. Very detailed.

[tthurman]

I admit, I had no idea that was what TARDIS was, but a quick google search brought it, and some interesting swimming suits, right up.

I don't know that I've ever seen even one episode of Dr. Who

I have seen that cab though, and its a good one for sure.

<edit> after looking around a bit more, if you built one of those to actual scale, it would be huge, wouldn't it?

[Draco1962]

Yeah, the one in the links is a 3/4 build. Full size would be 10' tall.

[Censored]

If you're making a Tardis - couldn't you make it inside itself? You'd have all the space you needed then.

(above based on 32 year old memories of Doctor Who).

Good idea, but i lost my sonic screwdriver...

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Just made a sketch of the Steam Punk case.

I think the most difficult thing (for now) is getting those gears...

[rtkiii]

This looks sweet! I'd love to do one of these but they are just so pricey. Nice work!