Changing gears...

Largely as a result of the company I've been keeping, the last year or so has seen me undertake a variety of random projects around the house. One that I have currently going is building my own MAME cabinet. Although perhaps "build" is too strong a word. I bought the cabinet itself and the arcade monitor from an arcade hobbyist (it was an Outrun cabinet) and set to work remodeling it. I'm rebuilding the entire control panel to have 2 sets of joysticks and buttons to replace the old steering wheel, and repainted the entire cabinet. I've cut some vinyl decals for sideart, but I seem to have reached a small impasse. With any luck it is only a minor setback, but I had been hoping to get the sideart done this past weekend. Nearly everything else is ready (save for a handful of buttons) so the art is really the only thing left to finish before i call this done. Consequently, the new delay is quite vexing.

Pictures will follow once the cabinet is no longer lying on its side in my garage.

Projects: Ghostbuster Costume

It took only about 4 months of off and on work capped with two weeks of frenzy, but the Ghostbuster costume is finally done. All told, final cost of the pack, uniform and everything else probably comes close to $400, but it was worth it and it looks pretty slick. Movie authenticity kind of fell by the wayside due to time and cost considerations, but the final product is still pretty good. Sometime in the next few days I'll post some pictures of the thing and I'll talk more in detail about how my friend and I put it together. Still have two ongoing projects that need to get finished and I have no idea what I'm going to do with the costume now. Somebody suggested putting it on display, but I'm not quite sure how I'd do that.

-ZK