scratch built cabs

[ManiN]

Here's my first mame cab - completely scratch built. It has a Rolling Rock beer theme. I still need to design some side art for it, but after I really got into dedicated cabs my interest in mame took a nosedive, lol.

That's really clean, I like that.

 

[jawhn]

That's really clean, I like that.

Ditto. That's an awesome mame cab!!!

Let me find one of my past home-built horrors...

 

[jawhn]

My first. Found plans on the internet that were horrible. It was like 6' tall and too long and skinny between CP and marquee. And ended up selling it on CL for like $100 when I raped/built the stripped PPII mame I have now.

 

[ArcadeKO]

Here's my first mame cab - completely scratch built. It has a Rolling Rock beer theme. I still need to design some side art for it, but after I really got into dedicated cabs my interest in mame took a nosedive, lol.

thats one of the better mame cabs - nice work

 

[gozer5454]

Here's my first mame cab - completely scratch built. It has a Rolling Rock beer theme. I still need to design some side art for it, but after I really got into dedicated cabs my interest in mame took a nosedive, lol.

Dude, Greg....that thing is beautiful! A little Bezel art and some sideart, and that thing should be sitting in the "How to build a MAME cabinet correctly" book.

 

[gozer5454]

This was the last cabinet that I built from ground up.

More-pics-because-I'm-too-lazy-to-cut-and-copy link right here:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/album.php?albumid=150



My first cabinet I ever owned was a scratch built hunk of shit with a hotwired SNES in it. I'll post pics of that mutant later. I'm also going to be building another ground-up creation at the beginning of May. And as many of you know, I've built some weird ass creations throughout the last year.

 

[DP Louie]

Dude, Greg....that thing is beautiful! A little Bezel art and some sideart, and that thing should be sitting in the "How to build a MAME cabinet correctly" book.

Thanks, Sean. I think I might be inspired to finish the artwork now! Your Spongebob cab is great, my son would go nuts over that. I'm planning on building a mini cab for his room based on an original NES and a 13" TV that I picked up at a yard sale for $5 (the TV, not the NES ).

If you really want to be blown away by craftsmanship and originality, check out this thread over at BYOAC. Astounding work.

 

[paulmg01]

built totally from scratch

 

[Mike Doyle]

I built these from scratch so they'd accept vintage and repro parts:

And a few cocktails based on the Midway Ms Pac design:

 

[gozer5454]

built totally from scratch

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT! Me so jealous!

 

[jawhn]

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT! Me so jealous!

+1. Outstanding work. Not crazy for the diamondplate, but meh... Cool looking, just looks painful.

 

[Paladin]

First scratch built cab from free plans found online in 2002. Looking back, what's the point of adding a coin door when it's in such a rediculous position?

Next and last scratch built cab from Jakobud showcase plans slightly modified as I went in 2008.

 

[Mindl3ss]

that one was for my brother. that is what he wanted so we built it for him. he still has it in his house. it was the only way his wife would let him have a game in the house. yes he is p-whipped.

That sounds about like how my mom would handle an arcade cabinet. (She has a similar hutch for her computer and TV)

I've always been one to enjoy showing off my electronic stuff, arcade, and home console games

 

[mhanlen1]

That multi in a armoire is hideous, but funny. A great finishing touch on it would have been wood burning some hearts and birds on it. But that's what he wanted...

 

[retroACTIVE]

Look at that big beeyotch to the right of Defender!!!! One day I will redo that aircraft carrier of a control panel...