Donkey Kong Cabaret scratch build

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Always wanted one of these but it's hard enough getting a standard cab, let alone a cabaret. So I decided to make my own from scratch. I came out ok, not as fine as could be but I'm using hand tools to cut everything so there's always small mistakes creeping here and there. All in all I'm happy with it.

It's running crazy kong at the moment as this was the game I played when I was a kid. I'll prob get an DK pcb in time and I still need to source a coin door.

I obviously deviated slightly from the original and put in a lit up marquee instead of the flat sticker.

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olonguet2017-09-20 16:13:52
 

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Looks good! What plans did you use? Would love a DK cabaret, but they're so hard to come by... I pretty much have all the internals (as I was going to scratch build a full size DK)
 

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JonathanClayton said:
Looks good! What plans did you use? Would love a DK cabaret, but they're so hard to come by... I pretty much have all the internals (as I was going to scratch build a full size DK)

used a mix of the plans on classicarcadecabinet.com and a sketchup model I found in the sketchup warehouse (which is far from complete) . I don't have CAD so I used jpegs of the CAD files as textures and applied them to the sketchup model to line up and measure the details .
 

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Kev A said:
Looks really good mate, what did you use for the wood effect on the sides?

wood veneer laminate from china on ebay. very cheap and worked just fine (although it's super thin so you have to be careful applying it
 
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