My first cabinet

[thegh0st81]

Look, I know it sucks compared to everybody else's cabinets I've seen here, but for not having a handy bone in my body I think I did OK.

 

Started off as an old Capcom Bowling cabinet... not sure what the previous owner was thinking with the control panel:

 

This was the only control panel I could find relatively cheap that fit my cab... testing out button placement:

 

Here's the CP again with the custom CPO I made:

 

Here's the CP in place with the custom Marquee I designed:

 

And finally, here's the mounting of the monitor.  The thickness of the monitor coupled with where I wanted to mount it from (metal frame around the inside) would have put the monitor out past where the glass cover goes, so I had to give about 2 inches of separation in the form of 2" wood blocks bolted to the back of the metal frame, and a piece of 1" thick board joining the two.  The monitor is mounted on that:

 

So again, I know it sucks, it's ugly, but it's mine.  I was on a very tight budget with our first child on the way so I made do with what I could.

[Tredog]

I don't think its that bad, and its better than not having one at all!  Great start, and wow that is a lot of buttons...

[dougan78]

Now you will have something to do while rocking the baby. Rock baby with left foot and beat double dragon at the same time! Nice build!

[SubZero]

For not having any handy bone in your body it came out great, but the monitor....why so small? and i if you are playing pc games on that thing i understand the 8 buttons