Been working on this for the past month and just finished yesterday. I was inspired by all the new Shmups that are releasing on 360 and the great ones that have already been released.
I decided I didn’t want to make a generic cab so I decided I had to pick a specific game so I went with the game that got me into shmups back when it released on Dreamcast, “Ikaruga”.
Concept was to make a simple design that would:
Be smaller than my 2 other cabs (Vewlix custom & Astro City)
Be able to rotate from vertical to horizontal without unmounting the monitor
Capture the feel of the game but also stand alone if I decide to change the theme
Stick with the “polarity” theme in Ikaruga
So I used:
Hammered silver and black paint that has a slight shine but also a rougher
look to kinda simulate the Ikaruga ship.
Asus 24 inch monitor
Lizardlick repro panel with custom gameongrafix overlay
JP 360 for Cave shmups etc.
Jwin sound bar/subwoofer just cause it fit the size price I was looking for
Here is the finished project:
When my Astro monitor gets back from being capped I will post my Mini Man Cave in the post your arcade cabinet thread.
Full inception was probably a month, Did all drawings etc while I was waiting for all the parts to come in. All woodwork, painting and assembling was like 4 full long days lol.
Haha. Reminds me of all the shmup madness we had going around here when We’d have someone holding a cheap computer monitor sideways. We even got technical and busted out the ductape. But this… awesome. I’d still like to see a 2P CP. :sad: Or is that what that TE with the vewlix-looking art next to it is for?
