Hello everybody,
I thought I'd share some inspiration with my and my friend's ongoing 52.5%-ish scale machine. The very idea of building a small pinball machine came up several years ago, and the project of building two machines started about two years ago. Unfortunately the project had been paused on several occasions, but we have been able to make good progress the last couple of months.
The build started with building a prototype to get the general idea of size.
When the prototype was made we moved on to model a final version with the help of CAD. Since none of us had any remarkable CAD skills we had to spend time to find a working CAD-application and to actually develop enough skills to do what we needed to do.
<Insert time warp here> (Good place to crowbar a Timeshock reference into the text, right? =P)
10 versions and about a year of modeling, redesigning and testing later we've currently got this;
A machine held together with angles and screws which is almost IKEA-grade flat-packable (Yep, we're swedes.) and highly service-friendly considering the size.
CAD-images aside, this is the first non-prototype version of the backbox. There has been minor changes since, but looks pretty much the same as back when these photos were taken.
I hope our somewhat unusual choice of internal backbox design doesn't backfire completely when Timeshock arrive... Would be nice if the display area can be adjusted for DMD/backglass accordingly. =P
Some more recent photos on the ongoing first body:
I hope this thread sparks some inspiration in people planning/considering building a mini-cabinet!