First (and probably last) stick i’m making. I based it off a design I saw haha im a panda do in his worklog, but much less well done… I was gonna use this as a guide of how to make something not that well built look like it was, but i gave up cause i ineptly lost some of the photos. You can all just look at my half-ass finishing process…
First I wood fillered all the bad joining in my work, and sanded it down (150 grit and then 280 grit). I dont have any fotos of before but it looked pretty fine here compared to before…


trying to make it all look like one piece here before priming
now to first coat of primer - pretty pissed that it still soaked in here - i pva glued the whole thing and sanded down to 280 grit but i guess i just got a bit lazy…

after the third coat tho it’s lookin pretty fresh, i think. not sanded yet at all:

theres still a couple of soaked up bits in the corners but overall im happy right now.
I’m planning to use water-slide decals for the top artwork and then clear coat over that… laser waterslide paper at www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk. An my design^^ morrigan by artgerm on deviantart, i know loads of people use it but hey, and i modified the astro city template of the first link on google…

now the not so fresh, + advice needed: bad planning has given me a fuckin tiny area to put my insides: i’ve kinda measured it out and I know that the joystick fits in fine, but i kinda forgot about the pcb. anyone know of one that’ll fit these measurements for xb360 comfortably? (or will most be fine?)

(i know it looks pretty dirt inside but im not lookin at it, i dont care)
and also, i know the mounting level (9mm) is too deep for the buttons, would it be fine to forget about snapping in/ nuts and hot glue them secure? (being careful with all moving parts)
cheers (more progress will come when i’ve gone and got pcb + parts arrivin from arcadeshop.de, see how that goes) ^^ hope i done 09 proud
EDIT: RAH i didnt realise this post would be so long…