Planning is done!

Now the plans for the cabinet body are finalized. 

We spent hours of mainly brain-work for this part, at times full of doubt that we could ever bring a self-made cabinet to the screen which would come even close to real cabinets. That was for we had to deal with a LCD-montior we practically had to build (or erm..plan) this thing around, instead of an actual playfield. 

First thing we literally DID plan the cabinet around the TV, there was loads of measuring and running around (from one room to the other, where we had the legs and TV stored) until we had something on-screen that looked like a pretty neat cab, but still we were not quite happy with the result (which was a good thing), it just didn't feel right. So we , besides purchasing some parts for the cab, consulted the owner of a pinball-online-shop, who was awesomely nice and offered us to look through the plans. 

Here's the link to the shop:

http://www.vpin-shop.de/

His critics were very helpful for he sort of led us the way to wide-body cabinets, which he thought we had used as a pattern.

That came in extremely handy for after browsing the net for a while we found out there was already some patterns on SketchUp for downloading. We decided to go for Williams' Red and Ted's Roadshow as a comparism, downloaded the pattern and placed it besides our graphics. Actually we'd nearly got it right away and it wasn't much effort to adjust our cab so that it looked similar to the original. Just had to correct the height of the legs and the angle of the cab itself (totally easy, just measured the angle of the Roadshow cab an implied it in the plan) and there we were.

Now our cab is in fact a little wider and shorter than the Roadshow-cab but that is due to the TV. We just didn't want to leave too much space around the TV, it may have looked awekward standing in front of it.

So here's the finished plans:

It's actually kinda hard to find useful patterns on the net, we know all too well. So if you'd like to use our plan with angles and all as a pattern, feel free to leave us a message, we'll share.

Next steps - out for the cutting and making some decals for the cab.