Upright Discs of Tron - The Build

[whitecomet]

So few months ago decided that would try to replicate this cabinet, have done a DK cabinet before and thought that this would be a great cabinet to replicate (why not buy? cost over £2K in the UK).
So having chose this as one of my grail cabinets to build the realisation of what actually went into the original build (luminescent inks, mirrors, translite, black lights etc...) gives me a clue why nobody has build these before only restored them.

RESEARCH:

There is only 1 UDOT that I know of in the UK, being unable to visit the cabinet it mean't a lot of Google searching and images, once that information was gathered measuring. Thanks to helpful people on this forum and others I was able to get most of the measurements to build the shell.

SHELL:

So with the measurements plotted into AutoCAD, I printed the plans off in 15% scale and then traced this onto some plywood to cut out to see if the shell is missing anything.





Cutting this out during the week... see how it goes.

 

[stevebm1]

look forward to seeing the results,my local arcade in the 80's had a discs of tron,love the game

 

[LAZORIAN]

Building a model first is an inspired idea!
Pity you aren't after an EDOT, there was a lovely one in valuations recently.
Good luck with the build

 

[whitecomet]

Building a model first is an inspired idea!
Pity you aren't after an EDOT, there was a lovely one in valuations recently.
Good luck with the build

Yeah TRON/EDOT/UDOT cabinets are well out of my price range.... so building one... the model is to make sure what parts I have are correct, also what parts are missing I can make then scale up to autoCAD plans.

 

[Nilyash]

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I might just have a full set of EDOT plans

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