here's the cab with the interior/front painted black. I did the first round of masking the brown in. I've got to add more brown later but first some orange.
I am still waffling on whether I'll be having a white with red stripe in the middle (i.e. brown orange brown white red white brown orange brown) - sounds like a lot more time & effort than I'm interested in right now so I might just combine them into a third orange stripe (thus Brown, orange, brown orange brown orange brown). You can never have enough brown & orange if you're looking to do a 70's vibe.
Looking back at my earlier concepts, I've tweaked the cp overlay to match the actual holes drilled.
I'm hoping my measurements will result in a piece of CP Overlay from mamemarquees that fits perfectly. I totally should have drilled *after* getting the CP Overlay. Duh. Well first time making a polished CP & all, so I'm bound to screw up. My other screwup is that I can't router the bottom of the board without totally dismantling the CP (which has already been puttied & sanded). Thus my joystick will either have to be top mounted & routed a bit on the top to make flush, or else just bottom mount it with no routering which results in a shorter stick. My proof of concept CP isn't routered either (and is bottom-mounted). While the sticks seem short, it's entirely playable, so not the end of the world for me. I want to be sure my final Metacab Sr. has them done properly though.
It wouldn't be impossible to just build a whole new CP to fit the cab too - I can use the old one as a template and redrill everything and extend the side boards so that it's fully hidden. Would also be nice to plan the side boards differently so that i could use T-molding along the edges (the current design would cut through some wood if I do that.
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