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Here's where this hunk of scrap wood starts to look like an honest arcade machine!  I swiped a couple of pieces from the quick updates page to make everything more logical.

Here's the cabinet after the coin doors, t-molding, monitor bezel (which had to be cut too small because I botched it yesterday) and assorted other bits were added, it is really starting to look like an arcade machine.

This is the first part of the faux bezel I created to cover my uhhh handy work with the original bezel, when printed on Poster 6, it should end up being 3 3/4 by 26 1/2.  I will make a smaller top part of the bezel using more cabinet pictures as well as two 2 inch by 25 inch side pieces featuring marquee images.

And here is the finished outer bezel installed.  I used the gazillion dollar Xerox dye printer at work, primarly because my little Lexmark is out of ink, but damn I forgot how nice that thing prints.  I might be tempted to re-do the marquee on that bad boy!  I used cabinet and marquee snap shots for the graphics, these images were the .pcx files from the MAME cabinet and marquee packs you can find online.

Here is a little bit of a tighter shot on the bezel, I'm very pleased with the results, and am actually kinda glad I F'd up the Happ bezel, because I would have never thought to do this if I had a bezel that was large enough.

Here's some control panel pictures that will probably get moved off of this page when I build a page this weekend for my hopefully completed control panel.

Drilled out the holes laid out on the Visio document with a 1 1/8 hole saw.  Tip:  check, double check and triple check to make sure everything is centered.  I didn't notice that my player 2 start button was off by about 1 or 2 spaces, and now the buttons will not be centered.  It's not a show stopper, so I'm not about to build a new CP for something like that, but if you look closely it will be noticable.  I am making the panels modular so I will eventually swap out this setup with a 2.0 panel.

I did a quick test fit of the buttons just to see if the layout works as I intended, I can also sit here and debate on what I think about the color scheme.  I could go with the red white and blue Street Fighter setup on the 6 button clusters, or try something different, I have a bunch of black and white buttons left over.  Tomorrow I get to route out the base area for the joysticks and drill the bolt holes (and then go to the dentist, yay!)

I've been eying all the white space on this panel,  I think I need to come up with some artwork to go on the generic contact paper overlay (granite) I am going to use.   Don't know about another MAME logo though, I might have enough of them.