Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: ckong on January 25, 2010, 02:11:57 PM
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It started with a Donkey Kong cab, back in October. And we are now only a few months further in time, but my classic game collection did already grow to six cabs, including the upcoming Star Wars cockpit. And I’m sure that there will be more cab purchases in the future (thanks DartNuno and all the others for infecting me).
And besides the classic cabs I already had 5 Japanese candy cabs and a few Mame cabs. Until recently I could store most of the cabs in an empty room in my house, but that empty room will now very soon become our master bedroom.
Therefore most of my cabs are stored somewhere in a storage facility. I only have one Candy cab and DK in the house. What a shame. :oops:
So, it is really time to get a gameroom. But we don’t have space for that in our house. However, we were already planning to built a shed to store our bikes, garden tools, motorbike, etc, and I think that it will be a good idea to combine it with a gameroom.
The idea is to built a wooden shed and insulate it from the inside. The largest part of the shed, where the gameroom will be located, will have an attic. Therefore I will also insulate the ceiling of the gameroom (which is the floor of the attic).
The outside will look similar like this, although doors and windows will be located a bit different:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/shed.jpg)
The inside will be an exact copy of this:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/IMGP9846.jpg)
Yeah, dream on Erik, there is no way that that will happen. ‘But I am allowed to catch that atmosphere, am I not?’ Sure, go ahead and do your best. By the way, I got this photo from the website of Peter Hirschberg (http://lunacityarcade.com/photos.htm ). Peter, I hope that you don’t mind that I used one of your beautiful photo’s to document my dream.
So, in this topic I will document my gameroom dream, plans and built. I hope to get a lot of useful information and other input.
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As mentioned above the shed will have a wooden structure and outside, which will be built by a professional builder. The builder will only built the outer walls and the roof. I will do the remaining work, like insulating the floor and the walls, make extra walls and rooms on the inside, put an attic in it, take care of the electrical system, etc. Fortunately I have some friends to help me if I get stuck.
This is the floor plan after the builder left the building. The outer measurements of the shed are 10 meters x 6 meters, the ceiling of the gameroom will be 2.35 meter high.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/shedbasis.jpg)
Note: the separate room will be built by me. This is only two walls and a door. That I can do!
And here is a first blueprint of how the gameroom could be arranged:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/gameroombasis.jpg)
A little explanation: on the left side there is a separate room for garden tools, bikes, etc. On the top left there is room for a desk or bench and this will also be the place where I will have room to play (retro) console games. The brown box left to the frontdoor is a cabinet to store game PCB’s and other game related stuff. In total there is room for about 15 cabs (which means that I have to be very picky about future cab purchases), of which one is the Star Wars cockpit (bottom right). Between two windows there is room for my Star Wars Pachinko.
On the top right there is a room (without a door) where I want to line up my Candy cabs. I want this to be separated from the ‘classic game department’ because Japanese Candy Cabs have a complete different look and feel around them. See this picture and you know what I mean:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/DSC00345.jpg)
I want to create that atmosphere more or less in this separated room. But I will not put a door in it because I want people to be able to walk easily in and out.
All this stuff is just a first blueprint. I haven’t decided anything yet and I am curious about other people’s opinion.
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looking nice, erik, but i would drop the idea of integrating the shed for the tools and bikes into the gameroom, because it is taking away a looot of space. have a look at how many cabs you could put there :). why not make an extension for the tools on the outside of the building? and while you're at it, why not make the gameroom bigger, after all you have a huge
park eh garden at your disposal ;)
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That looks very good! The layout leaves enough room to add a couple more cabs if necessary ;D (with a little rearrangement). At the rate you're buying cabs now I expect this is going to happen even before the 'shed' is finished :P ;D.
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You really started only 4 month ago your collecting adventure!? :shock: :D And you just have a Star Wars Cokpit? It's so beautiful...
Very nice gameroom you are planning: on which month do you estimate the open day?
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why not make an extension for the tools on the outside of the building? and while you're at it, why not make the gameroom bigger, after all you have a huge park eh garden at your disposal ;)
Yes, I know, but my wife ..... budget ..... my wife ..... building regulations (I am restricted to a maximum building surface) ..... my wife, and last but not least, budget. And I really also need a decent shed for non-gaming stuff. Everything has to be sensible and in perspective.
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You really started only 4 month ago your collecting adventure!? :shock: :D And you just have a Star Wars Cokpit? It's so beautiful...
Very nice gameroom you are planning: on which month do you estimate the open day?
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I already started playing Candy cabs about 18 months ago, but yes, it wasn't before October that I started my classic cab collection.
I don't know yet when the grand opening will be, but I aim at somewhere in June or July. You're invited of course, as is everybody else who wants to come.
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I like your plans !
if i only had the time, money, space, blessing of my wife :D
i like the part that you reserve some space for gardening etc etc.
maybe you could squeeze out some space to put the garden tools in the attic , and only the bikes in the shed ?
anyway, i like it
when do i need to bring the sausages for the opening barbeque ? ;D ;D ;D
(http://collateraldamage.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/sausage.jpg)
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The inside will be an exact copy of this:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/IMGP9846.jpg)
Hey, how did you get that picture from my v3? ::) :P ;D
Wow... what a project, but... as you say... you have to do it... so many 'stuff' to store ::) ;)
Good luck for this project :)
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Damn, that looks like a dream come true!! Makes me quite jealous ;)
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I agree, way to much space for the garden stuff, tools etc. ;D ;D ;D ;D
The extra wall for the candy's is a great idea, I agree about them being "something else".
One thing I miss in my gameroom (as you have seen) is a workspace like you planned for. It's also great to be able to have a cab in that area. Can't wait to see it finished.
I actually did inquire about that carpet but it was WAY to expensive for me. Plus, it's not a really practical surface IMHO, I love my tiles.
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Guys, I need some input about heating the place. The outer walls of the shed will be made out of wooden shelves, about 18 mm thick Siberian Lariks. I plan to use about 8-10 cm of Rockwool or something like that to insulate the walls and the ceiling of the gameroom (the part above the work- and storageroom will have no ceiling) and the I will finish the walls off with MDF or plasterboard. I will also insulate the concrete floor.
But a good insulated room still can, and will be very cold during winter times, So, I will need some kind of heating. There are some choices in heating of course, but what would be the easiest, sufficient and cheapest way given the fact that I will not make a gaspipe to the shed for a central heating system. I will choose another way of heating. And I will not put floor heating in it. So, which options are left?
Oil filled mobile radiators (as Bruno has I believe)?
Electrical heating (mobile radiators?)?
Infrared heating?
Other?
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Your only option is electrical heating then, and I think the oil filled radiators are the most efficient.
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I dont know how far the shed will be located from the house, but maybe its efficient to put one of these isolated pipes in the ground from your existing central heating system.
this is what i put between my friends house and his garage for the heater (he converted his garage to a office)
(http://www.r-we.nl/content/webshop/1/shop/100/img/6_1.JPG)
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Oil filled mobile radiators (as Bruno has I believe)?
Yes, I got a good one when I've started the V1... and I use the same one for heating also the V2. When I say the same one, I mean the ONLY one I have! ... the one who is heating the two rooms!
I'm happy with the result BUT
...because it's up & running 24/24 365 days per year, it cost me a lot of money!!! Because of it, it *DOUBLE* the price of my monthly electricity bill :ghost: :ghost: :ghost: I'm sure the one I'm using is just too small for the volume of both room.
I'll change that when I'll work on that subject for the V3...
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I dont know how far the shed will be located from the house, but maybe its efficient to put one of these isolated pipes in the ground from your existing central heating system.
this is what i put between my friends house and his garage for the heater (he converted his garage to a office)
(http://www.r-we.nl/content/webshop/1/shop/100/img/6_1.JPG)
Never thought of it. But the distance between my house and the shed will be appr. 35 meters. Would it work? I do have a heating system which at the moment is a bit too powerful, so it could have some additonal load.
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I agree with Petieken: Of the electrical variants, the oil version is probably the "most" efficient. But it's still WAY more expensive then connecting your central heating (which I assume you have) in your house.
I am also planning (I should have long done before winter....) to do it this way. It's the only cost-efficient way.
It depends on how far your shed will be from your house of course.
Also, there is one drawback when connecting it to the central heating: It will go on and off together with your (clock)thermostat. This may mean it will be colder in the gameroom than you want. Or it is heating it when you don't want it.
There may well be solutions for that though but they're pretty expensive.
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35 meters is pretty long. I'm not sure if that would be possible. Think you should ask someone who is in the Central Heating business (I will ask my neighbor when I see him, he has a "loodgieters" business and will do my heating next spring....
Here's a description how it is done:
http://www.gamma.com/stappenplanDetails.html?i=450
You will have to dig at least 60cm deep all the way to keep the leads below the frost area. I did that with the small digging machine you probably saw in my gameroom thread on BYOAC.
No fun to do 35m. 60cm. deep by hand !!
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well 35 meters is possible i think, maybe you need to put a little extra pressure in the system, like 2 bar instead of the usual 1.7-1.8
if i calculate the way from my friends Nefit to the attic radiator in his house (the Nefit is in his garage) i think he will be close to the 35 meters of pipe and the attic is more than warm enough.
investigate at a CV proffessional i would suggest.
the problem with too hot because of the central heating thermostate located in the house you can simply solve by putting thermostatic valves so it will stop heating when the room hits the preset temperature.
too low temperature is more dificult to overcome, but i think its just to prevent freezing temperatures in your shed.
for the digging, i read somewhere that it dont need to be so deep because of the good isolation the pipes have...
but in my friends house we digg also something like 60 cm deep.
for the energy bill this is the most efficient i think.
the costs of renting a digger is not so much in comparation with a complete build. and payed back by the energy bill that will be lower than the electricity bill
goodluck !
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the problem with too hot because of the central heating thermostate located in the house you can simply solve by putting thermostatic valves so it will stop heating when the room hits the preset temperature.
too low temperature is more dificult to overcome, but i think its just to prevent freezing temperatures in your shed.
I think too low temperature can be overcome by oversizing the radiators. But of course this means losing more wall space inside the shed too :arrow: less cabs.
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guys, that is serious useful information about the heat pipes and all. I sure will investigate this further. And the fact that I already need a digger (Bobcat) for the foundation and the concrete floor makes it more easy because I don't have to dig a groove by hand :)
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yeah, and also i was thinking you need to dig anyway to get electricity to the shed, and a good way to do that is 60 cm or more deep 8)
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I now got 3 offers from 3 shed builders. I will check and value them this week, plan visits with these builders for next week and then make my decision which shed and which builder it will be. Exciting. :) I hope that I can hand in my building permit application before the end of February. Then it will take another 8 to 12 weeks before the permit is granted, so somewhere in May.
with a bit of luck and effort the shed could be ready mid June. And then I will start making it into a nice gameroom. This will take some time also, and I don't want to rush it because it has to be just as I want it, like a dream come true.
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Your best bet is to have a dedicated heating & cooling system for the gameroom seperate. If you combine it with the house, it maybe too hot/cold because the temperature difference you want will not be detected by the thermostat, basically becoming a "dead man" area. If you're building your game room like mine, a metal building, I highly suggest having a dedicated HVAC for your gameroom.
Example... It's a cold day outside.. all the games on, lights etc.. it will get warm fast/ hot, you want instant detection of the temperature..You won't get this sharing of another system, not to mention over taxing the unit. If you can I suggest gas heating, it is more efficient than electric... especially for a larger area. I don't know how your temperatures are regularly, but just wanted to offer suggestions! :D Here are a few examples of my AC & Heat being installed..
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/sonic_1992/DSCN0305.jpg)
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/sonic_1992/DSCN0297.jpg)
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/sonic_1992/DSCN0298.jpg)
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/sonic_1992/DSCN0434.jpg)
And lastly, don't fall for one of these units, total garbage!!! Unless your game room is the size of a phone booth.
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/sonic_1992/DSCN0277.jpg)
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Thanks, I got more or less the same advice from other people too and I decided to go for a separate central heating system, powered with gas. It will cost a bit more to install, but the energy bill will be much lower. I think that the system will have an earn back pepriod of less than two years.
But I don't want to have radiators hanging on the walls, so I might use floor heating with it. That is not so efficient as radiators, but it doesn't take space and it is very comfortable The cabs will be the secondary heating system. ;D
My shed will be made out of wood, which is a pretty good insulator. And because we haven't very hot seasons over here I won't need a cooling system. If there are days when it is very hot outside I probably will be sitting at a nice spot in the garden with a beer nearby. :)
Oh, on your last picture above, what is the white stuff on the wall? It looks like some kind of thick foil.
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That is the insulation for the walls/ceiling... provides R19 insulating factor... I didn't paint it etc, the signs, posters and displays cover it all! It makes it look like a white wall!
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/sonic_1992/DSCN0480.jpg)
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/sonic_1992/DSC04172.jpg)
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/sonic_1992/DSC04173.jpg)
(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/sonic_1992/DSC04177.jpg)
Did you say your gameroom will be wood? Just make sure you seal it up very well to keep out dampness/humidity as well as insects & pests. Cedar is a very good choice... lasts a long time and has a great "cabin" smell! :D
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Did you say your gameroom will be wood? Just make sure you seal it up very well to keep out dampness/humidity as well as insects & pests. Cedar is a very good choice... lasts a long time and has a great "cabin" smell! :D
Yes, it will be a Cedar wood shed and I will take the necessary steps to prevent humidty built up from the outside and from the inside.
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A little update: yesterday I signed the order for building the shed ;D ;D I will file the building permit application in a few days, and if everything goes as planned, which it never does by the way, the shed will be there mid June.
That doesn't mean that the Gameroom is then ready also. I will have to prepare the floor heating, wall and ceiling insulation, install the electrical system (yikes :-[ ) and decorate the place. I hope to be 'up and running' by end August.
In the meanwhile I sterted to gather nice items for decorating the gameroom. If anybody has tips, please don't hesitate to tell them :)
To start, the mailman brought some nice posters today:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/CIMG3252.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/Cimg3254.jpg)
The star wars poster will look nice with the SW cockpit and the SW Pachinko. I love Star Wars, never knew it though. :lol:
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Tips for decoration: It's all a matter of personal choice, It can be a theme of 80's arcade posters (hard to find) and 80's movie posters too!
Some people have "Bar" decorations in their game room, like beer signs... In my game room I use anything videogame related, Classic or New game memorabilla, Arcade and Home videogame signs, posters & Displays..
Decorate with what you love most! ;D
Half the fun is getting the decorations! I went on many local and far roadtrips to hundreds of stores all throughout the '90s finding my decorations!
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A little update: yesterday I signed the order for building the shed ;D ;D I will file the building permit application in a few days, and if everything goes as planned, which it never does by the way, the shed will be there mid June.
Good news 8) Keep us informed ...
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Uh, first you sign the contract and then ask for the permit. You've got balls ! :D
Then again, waiting for the permit takes a couple of weeks at least. And then they start asking for extra information. Etc. Etc.
Congrats my friend, I know it will become great !
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In my game room I use anything videogame related, Classic or New game memorabilla, Arcade and Home videogame signs, posters & Displays..
I like that idea.
@Level42, yes, I have balls, but I also have an escape clause in the contract: if I don't get a building permit, I don't have to pay anything to the shed builder. It's written in the contract.
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Will there be a place in you gameroom tho play your console games?
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Will there be a place in you gameroom tho play your console games?
Yes, I want it to be a multi game(play)room: classic arcade cabs, japanese candy cabs, a table football, one or two Pachinko's (because I like the neon), console games and one top notch Pinball (which I have to buy yet). ;D
And I will try to leave space to be able to walk in it also :-[
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And I will try to leave space to be able to walk in it also :-[
;) who cares?
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And I'm guessing you also got quite a nice console collection too?
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Got a bit of 'bad' newd yesterday. Because the shed will be larger than 50 m2, I can't apply for a light building permit, but I have to apply for a regular permit. And that means that the procedure is longer, much longer. The civil servant told me yesterday that it might take up to 16 weeks before they grant me the permission to built. And after that there is still a period of 6 weeks that people concerned can file complaints!!! :evil:
So, I can't go through with my inititial plan to built the shed early June, it will be postponed by at least 2 months! :evil:
On the bright side, it will give me more time to think about how I will do the interior of the gameroom. :)
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Ow man that sucks big time ! That will also mean longer storage for your games, so unexpected extra costs....
On the bright side, your Gravitar is welcome to stay a little longer, no problem my friend, I will take the burden like a man...... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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On the bright side, your Gravitar is welcome to stay a little longer, no problem my friend, I will take the burden like a man...... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
are you sure that you can handle that, andré? ;)
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Well it will be tough.....really tough.... ;)
Man this game is so brilliant.
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A bit of bad news, but also some good news.
The bad news: yesterday a civil servant of the local authorities called me and he told me that the shed, which will be 60 m2, is too big to fit in the development plan (bestemmingsplan). I knew that I was allowed to built 80 m2 extra, but that I had to deduct all existing secundary buildings from that number, and I thought those were appr. 20 m2, which left room enough for the shed. But the civil servant told me that the secundary buildings already occupy 60 m2 of the 80 m2 @!#?@!? It seemed that the previous house owner hasn't done everything according the law, which means that our downstairs bedroom officially doesn't belong to the main building, but it is an secundary building/room (officialy: hobby space). Damn, damn, damn. The civil servant told me then that because of this he couldn't give me a building permit.
But now the good news. The civil servant, with whom I already have had some good contacts (never get angry at a civil servant if you need him), told me that it is a bit strange that I, living in the country side, can't built a proper shed. Then he surprised me and he said that he already had taken action to alter the development plan to allow me to not built 80 m2 extra, but 150 m2, and that the local authorities would go along with this!! :D :D :D :D :D WHAT A GREAT GUY, I will never make jokes anymore about civil servants.
Of course such an alteration of development plan has to be publised in newspapers so that the public can react on that, which takes another 6 weeks extra. But the civil servant told me that it is as good as 99,9% certain that the alteration will be approved and he was pretty sure that he can give me the building permit in the week of 7 september. :D :D Yes, finally.
One problem though, the built of the shed is planned to start on August 30, and it will be ready one week later, before I have the permit!!! I contacted the builder about this and the next possibility to built the shed is late October. :( So now I have to decide to stick to end of August and take a (pretty small) risk, or to wait two more months. But I don't want to wait because I have to insulate the gameroom and do a lot of other work and I want the gameroom to be ready before the winter.
In the meanwhile the permit fees etc. are getting more and more. :-[
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6 additional weeks are NOTHING compared to the 99% certainty of an alteration approval. In your shoes i would wait october to start building "my" shed: 3 additional months to think on how to decorate the building ;)... and dream up on it ::)
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Good news, in the end it will be worth the wait ;D
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If you do start building, you must scan your environment for nasty neighbours. Because they can call the Gemeente to see if you have a building permit and then they will take action and maybe even shut the building site down.
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not bad news at all i think, although i don't understand the difference between what he calls a shed and what you wanted to build before. but man, 150 m2 instead of 80m2 - almost double the size. hope you're going to use it!
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... i would go for a room that is 150m2, you will (just as i have :-\) run out of space before you know it!
But a great guy, that just by himself took action! - definitely not what they do in denmark!!! :( they never sees solution´s here, always problems, and more problems!
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Just so you guys know is that the term "Shed/The Shed" is a copyrighted trademark of Muerto Inc... :P :lol: :lol:
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If I had the money I would built a shed of 150 m2, but the 150 m2 is only the extra m2 I am allowed to have in total on my land besides the main building (my house). And from that 150 m2 60 m2 is already been used by the previous owner. So I have 90 m2 left, of which 60 m2 will be for the new shed. Remains 30 m2 for future use (swimming pool ;D ;D )
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ah, ok! - and a swimming pool would also be great! - we sure could have used one at my party!!!!!
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I thought changing a bestemmingsplan took YEARS ?!!?!
I guess it's just an addition or something like that, because the actual function of your ground and buildings will stay "living'.
Anyway, good news indeed, even if it will take longer.
So, how much do you want to pay us to not file against the change ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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So, how much do you want to pay us to not file against the change ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
hèhèhè, no chance, you guys are no parties concerned.
Or in fact you are, you all want the gameroom to be ready because there will be a big opening party. And you're all invited. So better file nothing.
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OK, I decided to reschedule the built to the end of October. But you know what they say, better late(r) then never. :)
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wise decision, erik! this will give you more time to carefully plan your "attack" and more time of pleasant anticipation. wish i was there already where you are ...
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Wish i was there already where you are ...
Just be patient, your time will come :) And you have the advantage that you can fill it right away with a bunch of awesome games, which all got the 'Ully treatment' already ;D
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Just be patient, your time will come :) And you have the advantage that you can fill it right away with a bunch of awesome games, which all got the 'Ully treatment' already ;D
i know it will - i've already talked with andre about that topic. currently my plan of attack is to look for a house with a huuuge basement, because i'd love to have my games in the house rather than having to build an additional gameroom. as i've said before, i move might be coming and i need to keep my eyes open for the perfect object!
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Ully, in Holland we need loads of teachers....
Not a lot of houses with basements here though (water, water everywhere !).
Seriously, of course I've seen pictures where Ully & co were dragging machines up to his house, but man, it is FOUR stories high (In Holland all buildings with 3 or more stories MUST have elevators).....carrying those babies upstairs is like 7 days of work-out in a gym....
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Good news guys, I finally got my building permit! ;D ;D ;D
I already started to clean out the carport which will be demolished because it stands where the shed will be built. From now on you can finally expect pictures of the building of the shed and gameroom. :)
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yiehhhhh congratiolations!
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YES!!! :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Good news guys, I finally got my building permit! ;D ;D ;D
I already started to clean out the carport which will be demolished because it stands where the shed will be built. From now on you can finally expect pictures of the building of the shed and gameroom. :)
Yeaaaahhhhh !!! Good news !!! :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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;D ;D ;D
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Pix Start Now!!!!! ;D
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Congratulations man! :spaceace:
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Yeah we also want to see pics of the former carport of course ;D
Congrats, can't wait to help fill it up :D
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Good news guys, I finally got my building permit! ;D ;D ;D
I already started to clean out the carport which will be demolished because it stands where the shed will be built. From now on you can finally expect pictures of the building of the shed and gameroom. :)
Yeeees !!!! :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Gameroom realization – Stage 2 (Stage 1 – getting building permit completed)
Allright, now that I have the building permit, I can start building! ;D But I first have to tear down the most ugly carport of the northern hemisphere:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4262.jpg)
This one has to get rid for good, so at first I thought it would be a great idea to hire the demolishing team from Discovery Channel, but they couldn’t fit it in their schedule. :'( However, one of the advantages of living in the country side is that there always is a bloke in the neighborhood who wants to help and who has the right tools.
So last week, on a nice day
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4552.jpg)
I started to do some preparation work, i.e. cleaning out the carport, unscrewing all the bolts with which the roof of the carport was attached to the carport and clearing the roof of the carport from tons of accumulated leaves, soil and other dirt, which went pretty well:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4556.jpg)
The same evening Mark, a son of a nearby farmer came overwith his chainsaw. We decided not to make a massacre out of it, but just concentrate on tearing down the wall of the carport. And so we did:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4560.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4563.jpg)
And only an hour or so later this was the result:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4569.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4570.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4571.jpg)
Very nice. We decided to call it a night, and continue the work on Saturday (yesterday).
And again this Saturday was a very nice day, this time with a lot of spectators. Guys, meet Bertha 1 through 26:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4580.jpg)
A few days ago, while I was getting rid of beams and other stuff around the carport, I also came across this (again):
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4582.jpg)
I already had found them lying at the back of the carport some years ago, and now was the time to prepare these boards to be transported to a certified asbest removal company. I knew how to pack these boards (see-through plastic in at least two layers) and this is the end result:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4587.jpg)
So, that is done and when the shed is completely finished, I will bring the plates together with all other building waste to the removal company. :)
At noon Mark arrived and we immediately went further with the carport. We started to remove the roof plates:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4589.jpg)
And then we removed the paving stones, approximately 35 square meters.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4600.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4601.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4613.jpg)
This was a pretty heavy job, but after an hour and a half we had done it:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4620.jpg)
Nevertheless, I was still feeling very strong:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4624.jpg)
Was it me, or were it the paving stones? I’m still not sure ???
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4626.jpg)
Anyway, we collected 4 pallets with paving stones:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4630.jpg)
After a short break we went further with the framework. The chain saw, some good old fashion muscles and the tractor did miracles:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4632.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4634.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4637.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4641.jpg)
And here we are, tired but very happy that we did the job. I now have no carport anymore, but soon I will have a gameroom!! :lol:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4644.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4643.jpg)
R.I.P.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4648.jpg)
that's it for today, next monday the groundwork for the foundation will start.
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i think that carport may be bigger than my whole property, you are lucky to have that big garden or is it a farm even.
good luck with the build :spaceace:
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This is going to be AMAZING :shock: Cant wait to see the next couple of stages!
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that is just GREAT, erik! first of all i have to repeat what i've already said before: this is not a garden, thisi s a damn PARK. are you sure the gameroom couldn't have been bigger? it looks like a lot of ground you have here. anyway, can't wait to see this progress, it is going to be one hell of a thread. would you have imagined you would be doing this one year ago?
one question remains though: are you wearing your wife's shoes? :D
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4624.jpg)
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Yes...the story really starts :P
Instead of this :arrow:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4560.jpg)
I suggest this custom one ;D :arrow:
(http://image.jeuxvideo.com/images/x3/d/e/dead-rising-2-xbox-360-040.jpg)
This topic will be awesome :-*
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Yeahhhh , the start is made !
I wish i had more free time, so i could help you, i like to demolish too ;D
as with all the jobs, the right tools save you a lot of frustrations/accidents.
the pavement removing is the most heavy i think, i remember that i needed to make one, and i felt my legs and back the day after pretty hurt
I will folow this threat very carefull!
i like arcade, but also DIY and constructing so this is a hell of a topic !
Goodluck with this erik!
ps. when i see this :
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4582.jpg)
Im thinking .. "VUURKORF TIME" ! ;D
for the non dutchies here :
(http://yovia.com/blogs/spreadtheword/files/2010/06/fire-pit.jpg)
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Yessss finally it starts !!! I'm happy for you :spaceace:
Goodluck Erik !
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Wow a lot of work done ! Always handy to have a tractor around ! :)
Erik's place is simply amazing. If I wasn't such a city guy I'd love to live in a similar place....far away from all the madness....
Will be great to follow the progress. Weren't the plates of the roof not containing asbestos ? When I had removed the one's on my shed I hadn't even thought about it. I had to cut one plate because part of it covered my neighbors' shed roof. BUT my house (and thus me shed) was only 11 years old when I removed it, and at that time (1998) asbestos was forbidden completely so I hadn't even thougt about it.
So I bring the plates to the local "milieu straat" and when they see the plates they go all nuts and say I have to pack them in plastic because it contained asbestos and blablabla. So I point them to the manufacturing date and brand (NOT Eternit) and that they should know that there IS no asbestos in those plates. The reply was that the guys from the company who come to pick up the "regular" "puin" (=stone, rock, concrete leftovers) are OVER protective and fear any golfed plates....
So there I was wrapping all the parts in plastic they provided me. I had no tape, and I only packed it once because I thought this was ridiculous but I was already glad they allowed me to dump it anyway. Had to lift all the plates in a insanely high container though. All in all it took me at least an hour extra ......but when you think about it: You can bet that this asbestos waste (a special container for it) is handled very carefully and THUS very expensive. SO, if there are loads of waste (like mine) that doesn't contain any asbestos at all, this surely increases my local taxes ! :evil:
Anyway....should I start wrapping your cabs in protective foil already ? ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Excellent! - Looking forward to the build!
:lol: :lol: :lol: 0 (Zero) steering capability!
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/sloop%20carport/CIMG4626.jpg)
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I'm surprised of myself, I'm sitting in front of a cosy fireplace at the moment, without any muscle pain! :)
And I'm glad that I did tear down the carport yesterday, and not today because today is a rainy dreary day.
are you sure the gameroom couldn't have been bigger?
one question remains though: are you wearing your wife's shoes? :D
Yes, I'm sure, my wallet and my wife, who has no warm feelings for this hobby, won't allow me to make it bigger. In fact, I recently realized that there should be a better balance between arcade life and real life, at least for me (I'm not speaking for you guys). So I decided to make the gameroom a bit smaller than first planned. Still, there will be place for about 16 cabs, a football table game, a pinball, a console gaming corner and lots, lots of gaming fun.
Here is a (probably not final) draft of the layout:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/gameroomlayout06092010.jpg)
Oh, the boots are mine, they are country boots.
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Here is a (probably not final) draft of the layout:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/gameroomlayout06092010.jpg)
looking great, erik, i wish i were in your place right now. not having a REAL gameroom sucks ... :'(
anyway, which cabs are currently in your collection and are definitely going into the gameroom?
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anyway, which cabs are currently in your collection and are definitely going into the gameroom?
Japanese: 2 x New Astro city, 1 Egret 2 (with tri-sync chassis)
Classic: SW cockpit, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Gravitar, Breakout, Donkey Kong, Vanguard (Zaccaria), Centipede, Scramble (Zaccaria)
Other: SI/Qix anniversary cab, Mame cab.
That makes it 17 in total. I won't have room for much more, but that's OK. I love playing all games above and don't have much more to wish. And the addition of the football game and a pinball will make it complete for me, an allround gameroom, that's what I want. However, I would make room for a Tempest, Robotron or Black Widow (at the cost of Scramble or Pac-man).
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It must be great to finally start with the built. I'm sure this is going to be an awesome room, can't wait to play your great collection of games sometime (including the candy's) :D
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No turning back now! :roll:
today the ground work, in preparation for the foundation, has been done. Two guys from the shed-building company came to locate the exact position and height (or depth) of the area where the ground has to be dug away.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4661.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4664.jpg)
and then the digging could start. I always like to watch this kind of work, it's amazing how these machinist can control their machines up to a centimeter. And this one is small, but I've seen some amazing work in the past with really big power shovels.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4668.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4672.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4679.jpg)
And I fortunately remenbered that I need a trench for gas, water and electra supply. The bottom of the trench is about 80 cm under level, and the rest is dug out 70 cm under level.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4683.jpg)
Finished. As you can see on the pictures, the terrain is not quite level (which is an understatement), there is a level difference of almost 20 centimeter between the left side of the shed and the right side of the shed. But that is no problem, I just have to bring up some earth on the right side, and of that I have enough. :D
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4687.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4690.jpg)
Later this week the foundation (insulation, steel wire mats, concrete) will be made, but tomorrow I first will have to put some 50 mm PVC tubes in the trench, where I will bring in the tyleen tubes for water and gas and the electricity and ethernet cable at a later point.
To be continued. :)
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And this one is small, but I've seen some amazing work in the past with really big power shovels.
Actually the small one's are harder to operate than the bigger one's. They are much more "nervous" in the movements because of the low weight. Not what I made up, just what I was told by some guy who works on them...
This all looks fairly familiar to me....same prep work as done here :)
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great to see that everything is slowly but surely coming together nicely. is this going to be finished within the year?
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great to see that everything is slowly but surely coming together nicely. is this going to be finished within the year?
I do hope so. My aim is spring 2011, then the gameroom should be complete finished and up and running, and ready for the grand opening. :)
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Great to see the progress!
........the grand opening. :)
as long as you turn on "The weber" count me in ;)
(http://www.opdenkelder.com/pics/weber.jpg)
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as long as you turn on "The weber" count me in ;)
You can count on it. :)
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I have a question for the electro technicians here:
I will bring gas, water, electricity and ethernet to the shed. I will feed the last 7 meters of it through a few 50 mm PVC tubes, which I dug in today (pics later). I was planning to put the 5-wire electricity (ground) cable and the ethernet cable to one tube, but today someone told me that this could give distortion (in the ethernet cable?) and that it is better to have as much distance between the ethernet and the electricity cable.
True or not true?
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Ckong: It's preferible take distance between ethernet cable and electricity cable, or if you can, put in a separate tube.
Etherne cable can take 100mt from an hub to other hub without connectivity problem.
However, for the little space of a small office (a room 3x3 mt) I need to made pass the ethernet cable with the elceticity cable: untill today, they work on internet and into the local network without problem.
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Great to see the progress!
........the grand opening. :)
as long as you turn on "The weber" count me in ;)
(http://www.opdenkelder.com/pics/weber.jpg)
Hey, i got a Weber like that (the exact same model) and it´s always "turned on" when there´s a party in The Shed!
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What did I do today? Besides a bit of normal work, I also assembled and dug in a few PVC pipes in which water, gas, electra and network tubes and cables will be put through.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4697.jpg)
I will use 32 mm tyleen tubes for gas and water, and these tubes are very rigid, hard to bent (fortunately). That's why I used two 45o knees (knietjes), instead of one 90o. Several people told me that this should work, especially when I have the aid of a traction cable.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4700.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4701.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4707.jpg)
I bet you all saw that there was a little bent in the tubes in the trench. I noticed that too and I straightened them out after I took the pics (but before I filled the trench ;D , which wasn't a nice job.)
That's it for today.
Are all these pictures boring by the way? I could post a few less.
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Are all these pictures boring by the way? I could post a few less.
Not at all, it's perfect! Thanks for all the details :-*
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Are all these pictures boring by the way? I could post a few less.
Not at all, it's perfect! Thanks for all the details :-*
+1
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Nice to see the project/pictures Erik :)
Cheers,
M.
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It' s amazing watching how a game room is building, like the Nuno tread! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Post more photo as possile.
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Be sure to put the water lead at least 1,50 meter under the ground level !!!
Or else it may freeze !
And gas through those ??
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..... but today someone told me that this could give distortion (in the ethernet cable?) and that it is better to have as much distance between the ethernet and the electricity cable.
Spend a few more bucks on STP network cable instead of standard UTP, that has schielding that should eliminates interference
but im almost sure that the normal cable will work, but just be sure
for extra precaution you can take a separate pvc pipe, and take shielded groundcable:
(http://www.klusspullen.nl/images/catalogusgroot/246405.jpg)
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Thanks Flip and Etienne for your information about the electricity and network cables, It will be useful.
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You are preparing something of great Erik: respect!
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You are definitely living the dream ;)
Just out of curiosity do you have already decided what you will use to finish the inside (carpet on the floor,color of the walls, windows, ...).
Or maybe I'm moving too fast here and you want to keep it as a surprise for your next posts...
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Thanks Flip and Etienne for your information about the electricity and network cables, It will be useful.
Youre welcome :)
i dont know how many power you are going to use in the shed, but maybe its recommended that you bring "3 fase" (380V) to the shed, and from there install a fusebox in the shed where you can devide the 3 cores into 3 seperate groups of 16 Amps
in that way you can suck a total of 220v*16a= 3520w * 3 groups = 10560 Watts
i think 10 Kilowatt will be sufficient to feed the shed 8)
ps use minimal Cat5e cable or higher with massive core and connect these on the ends instead of crimp connectors:
that will save you alot of headache...
(http://www.kadex-domotica.com/images/AK300/AK300_ethernet2hq.jpg)
and maybe its useless to mention, but put in 2 cables of ethernetcable, you never know you need more than one cable in the future, or that there is something wrong with one of the cables, in that way you have a "spare" cable witch is ready to go
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Thanks Flip and Etienne for your information about the electricity and network cables, It will be useful.
;D ;D ;D
No problem!
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great to see the progress. That Bobcat machine is epic :lol:
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@chris, I do have some ideas about the interior of the gameroom, but I made no final decions yet. There will be one window in the gameroom, and two doors, one to the outside, and one connection door to the other part of the shed.
@Etienne, another piece of useful information! ;) :)
Fortunately I have 'all the time in the world' to think and decide about interior finish and electrical issues. This week the foundation of the shed will be finished (they are making the concrete formwork at the moment, pics later), but then there will be a pause (all because of the delay in the building permit application). Next step will be the actually building of the shed, which is planned to start at 25 October. In the meanwhile, but probably also after October, I will decide how the gameroom and electrical supply has to be done in detail.
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We need a webcam ! ;D ;D ;D
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That's how the arcade house looks like atm.: ;D
Anteroom:
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TJDduSkCPLI/AAAAAAAABt8/7AeA_1JhDUM/s800/Cabinets%20004.jpg)
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TJDduk4qMVI/AAAAAAAABuA/qBoW1hYcaIc/s800/Cabinets%20006.jpg)
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TJDduL8BGaI/AAAAAAAABt4/PxwsB-RzanQ/s800/Cabinets%20003.jpg)
Living room lobby level:
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TJDdycEg6_I/AAAAAAAABuM/AukScaD8ogw/s800/Cabinets%20007.jpg)
First floor:
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TJDdtfDR87I/AAAAAAAABtw/EscHjzcttsU/s800/Cabinets%20001.jpg)
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TJDdthx1UZI/AAAAAAAABt0/7YkDWwOWMvk/s800/Cabinets%20002.jpg)
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The plan:
We have an unused grill terrace behind our house, it's some kind of storage atm.:
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TJDfZSd1llI/AAAAAAAABug/4oFEamCdeh8/s800/Terasz%20006.jpg)
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TJDfY931pDI/AAAAAAAABuc/tNlTEhoDpDE/s800/Terasz%20002.jpg)
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TJDfYnyvtSI/AAAAAAAABuY/xV7QOvWUqPc/s800/Terasz%20001.jpg)
It is about 20 m2.
I asked a quotation from 3 different companies to make some wooden and plexi mobile or awning walls for it.
The simplest and chepaer way is something like this, but I ahve to check it's heat isolation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tplRtXnuWlg
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Nice, good plan. You deserve your own topic for this. ;) :)
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Nice, good plan. You deserve your own topic for this. ;) :)
agreed! this will definitely be a cool gameroom ... so open up a new topic RIGHT NOW ;D
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You must be right, it's Eric's topic! ;D
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An update: today two blokes from the company which is going to build the shed had a long day making the concrete formwork ready. And they did a nice job. I will post some pics tomorrow because ...... tomorrow the foundation and the rough floor of the shed will be constructed, with 11 m3 of concrete!!!
This evening I did some final preparation for it, like laying an empty pvc tube to the middle of the gameroom for a possible power floor outlet (some cabs will be standing in the middle of the room).
I also had an unexpected, but very pleasant, visit this evening from a good friend and a gameroom building expert, sort of. He came, he judged the works until so far and he concluded that it was OK. :) I must say, I hardly reckognized him, but his voice made it easy for me. ;)
So that's it for today, tomorrow morning at 8.30 AM the concrete guys are coming. I will be very friendly to them, it's easy to vanish for good in 11 m3 concrete. :lol:
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I also had an unexpected, but very pleasant, visit this evening from a good friend and a gameroom building expert, sort of. He came, he judged the works until so far and he concluded that it was OK. :) I must say, I hardly reckognized him, but his voice made it easy for me. ;)
hardly recognized because he's already that slim?
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Here are a few pics from today, no comments added.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4731.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4737.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4746.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4752.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4762.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4766.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4767.jpg)
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(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4767.jpg)
that pic is awesome! i can almost already see the cabs in there ;)
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that pic is awesome! i can almost already see the cabs in there ;)
Me too, and our bikes, my lawn mower, my trailer wagon, etc. But the picture shows already how the space will be divided. The taller part will be a general shed, with a double door. The narrower part will be the gameroom. That way I feel I have best of both ways, a very necessary place to store all kind of non-related stuff and a modest, but very enjoyable funspot.
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Yes.
Of course I had to go over and inspect the progress today. As experienced GameRoomBuilder I have approved of the progress so far.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Never get tired of too many pictures they alone tell thousands of words, but please continue to add your often very funny remarks aswell.
Not sure you have all the time in the world to sort the style of the interieur though.
You've been pounding over this for quite some time now....
Just kidding it's a weak attempt to make you nervous. You'll get it in time.
Getting epic overthere ...... great stuff.
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I noticed the foam insulation being placed down? I guess it's because of your very cold winters?
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I noticed the foam insulation being placed down? I guess it's because of your very cold winters?
Yep, and because I want to prevent as much as damp in the shed and because I want to put floor heating in the gameroom. There will be another layer of insulation. To be precise, the floor will be build up like this:
1. thin plastic layer (you can see it on the pics)
2. 5 cm. insulation
3. 12 cm concrete in which a 6mm2 steel wire frame is embedded (the wire frame is put on bricks, and therefore 'floats' 6 cm above the insulation
4. again 3-4 cm pressure resistant insulation on which the floor heating tubes will be attached
5. 6-7 cm cement floor, which will be smoothened out (vlinderen) on the surface. In this cement floor a 4mm2 steel wire frame will be placed.
The sides of the foundation will be 70 cm below level.
Oh, the concrete floor was done today, it gave a bit of trouble because of the enormous weight and pressure on the woodden formwork. the formwork gave way a bit, but nothing troublesome. I will show pics later.
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First of all; the more pictures the better ! 8)
Don't forget to ground the last grid of steel (the one in the "dekvloer") or am i confused with bathroom floors ?
i recall something like that was obligated in bathrooms, just dont know if thats the case for your shed in combination with floorheating
the floor heating is electrical i persume ? of is that why you're putting gas to the shed ?
ps i read in a previouse post you mention to use tyleen for water and gas... tyleen for gas ? are you sure ? is it not insulated cupper pipe like this?: ("wicu buis")
(http://www.omnia-online.nl/contents/media/wicu_buis.jpg)
Just curiouse, i never listen about gas through tyleen.... does not sound safe to me..
just be sure that the plummer checks the pipes ("afpersen")
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i recall something like that was obligated in bathrooms, just dont know if thats the case for your shed in combination with floorheating
Not necessary, nor obliged for floor heating
the floor heating is electrical i persume ? of is that why you're putting gas to the shed ?
Yep, it's a gas heated system.
Just curiouse, i never listen about gas through tyleen.... does not sound safe to me..
just be sure that the plummer checks the pipes ("afpersen")
There are special Tyleen tubes for gas transportation. It is used quite frequently for transporting gas to outside locations, for instance from a house to a shed. Of course the last part of the gas connection will be a copper pipe. And I planned to let a "gas installation worker" check everything, including "afpersen".
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More pics, from today. the rough concrete floor was made. The shed will be placed on this floor and then, when the shed is placed, I will lay the final floor.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/16092010062.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/16092010073.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/16092010087.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/16092010098.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/16092010124.jpg)
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Great progress Erik! - though, why did´nt you put in a heating floor????
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Great progress Erik! - though, why did´nt you put in a heating floor????
He will. This is just the concrete base, there will be a final cement floor over it.
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Great progress Erik! - though, why did´nt you put in a heating floor????
I will, in the final floor:
..... To be precise, the floor will be build up like this:
1. thin plastic layer (you can see it on the pics)
2. 5 cm. insulation
3. 12 cm concrete in which a 6mm2 steel wire frame is embedded (the wire frame is put on bricks, and therefore 'floats' 6 cm above the insulation
4. again 3-4 cm pressure resistant insulation on which the floor heating tubes will be attached
5. 6-7 cm cement floor, which will be smoothened out (vlinderen) on the surface. In this cement floor a 4mm2 steel wire frame will be placed.
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Here is some footage of the construction site (my first youtube movie ever)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY9eZJc4m10
Edit: I changed the vid.
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What ? No update for a week ?
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Last week I had to remove some small trees which were standing in the way of the shed. so, on a Wednesday afternoon my 'gardner boy' and I removed 7 of them. It went pretty quick. Here are some pics of the last one:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4853.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4857.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4861.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4862.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4864.jpg)
After a few hours we were done, and this is the result
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4867.jpg)
But an hour later everything was cleaned up and I had 3 large piles of branches etc.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4871.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG4873.jpg)
The piles will be there until Easter next year, when we have the annual Easter Fire:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG3352.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/CIMG3405.jpg)
Here are some more pictures of this tradition: http://www.contact-barchem.nl/Paasvuur_2010.html
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The piles will be there until Easter next year, when we have the annual Easter Fire:
We also have this tradition in our small villages in Belgium, every year around March :)
And to be more precise, the people who light the fire are the last couple married of the year.
Because my wife and I got married late in December... the honor was our, see my wife ;D :arrow:
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/forforum2/udange_grand_feu_1.jpg)
Nope, this is not the Burning Man, this is the huge fire in my village ;D
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/forforum2/udange_grand_feu_2.jpg)
:)
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Funny pic:
(http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/5178/cimg4862k.jpg) (http://img716.imageshack.us/i/cimg4862k.jpg/)
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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oh my godness, you almost got squashed by a tree!!! :o
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oh my godness, you almost got squashed by a tree!!! :o
Well yes, I stumbled and fell. But nothing happened because we did saw the tree down in two parts. The pictures are of the second part, only a couple of meters of trunk were left. So nothing could happen. I just pulled the rope becaue I didn't want the trunk to fall on the foundation.
By the way, this wasn't the last tree, as I mentioned. I just noticed that the tree right behind the chansaw murderer sawyer was really the last one.
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reminds me of a scene of my favorite christmas movies :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TYlOTajXGg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TYlOTajXGg)
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Today was the day!! :D
Today they started to built the shed. And in the shed will be ...... my gameroom. The guys will need 3 or 4 days to built it and her eis the result after day one:
Yesterday:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/Placing%20of%20the%20shed/Cimg4910.jpg)
And this afternoon at 4 PM:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/Placing%20of%20the%20shed/Cimg5023.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/Placing%20of%20the%20shed/Cimg5025.jpg)
I'm happy ;D ;D Can't wait till tomorrow.
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Yes!!! :-* Will be ready for Christmas? :P
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wow, it's going fast! I can't wait for the grand opening!
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Looking great Erik! :spaceace:
Remember to install a door that´s at least 100CM wide!! (but i´m sure you're going to use you garage door for transporting games in and out)
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Looking great Erik! :spaceace:
Remember to install a door that´s at least 100CM wide!! (but i´m sure you're going to use you garage door for transporting games in and out)
The door will be 93 cm wide. I won't be able to transport games through the garagedoor to the gameroom because there will be a wall between the garage and the gameroom. However, I probably will make a door also in that wall.
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Rats.....I'll need to hurry with the SW ;)
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Rats.....I'll need to hurry with the SW ;)
YEP :D ;)
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looking great Ckong!
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Holy canoli,
That's going very quickly, definitly not the Biereco's... Looking great!!!
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Don't know if they had prepared the side frames "in the workshop" like they did with my gameroom, but if so, it goes lightning fast on the spot...
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Don't know if they had prepared the side frames "in the workshop" like they did with my gameroom, but if so, it goes lightning fast on the spot...
Yes, they did.
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End of day 2
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/Placing%20of%20the%20shed/Cimg5114.jpg)
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Wow! Faster that light 8) Looks great :-*
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Heheh, that plan of using the left part as a garage is already out of the window AFAIK ! WHAHAHAHAHAHHAA ! ;D ;D ;D
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End of day 3. The shed builders are as good as done, only some small finishing work to be done tomorrow. Here is the end result (the white paint is primer):
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/Placing%20of%20the%20shed/27102010180.jpg)
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Right, let's shift in the cabs !
;D ;D
Very nice !!!
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Woooowwww !!!!!!!! Already done :o :o :spaceace:
Love it :-* :-*
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Unbelievable!!! :o
In 3 days? :o
It can't be! ;D
Looks awesome!!!
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Mmmmmm, I "think" there still will be a lot of work inside.....electricity, insulation, floor, walls etc etc......I know from experience :D
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Mmmmmm, I "think" there still will be a lot of work inside.....electricity, insulation, floor, walls etc etc......I know from experience :D
Yep, it will take at least until May next year before I officially open the doors. But building a gameroom is fun, so I don't mind. :D
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thats fine !, i mean its not good weather for a BBQ now ;)
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Here is the end result, after 4 days of building. They needed one day extra to finish all the details. I don't mind, I love details, especially when they are done good.
Here is the outside, it has a few windows on the front and on the sides, but the back of the shed has no windows.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/Placing%20of%20the%20shed/29102010190.jpg)
Inside, with a view in my future gameroom. The gameroom will be about 30 m2, not very big, but big enough to have a great time and a lot of fun in it.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/Placing%20of%20the%20shed/29102010192.jpg)
Again inside, with a view to the general storage room. There will be a wall seperating the two rooms. The stairs are hung up with a hinge, so it can be lifted to the ceiling. I plan to install an electric winch that I bought years ago but never used.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/Placing%20of%20the%20shed/29102010193.jpg)
The attic. It is huge and in the middle about 190 cm high, so I can walk upright on it. It's so huge that I'm thinking of making a second gameroom in it, just for my consoles. Ha, who has a two floor gameroom!! :lol:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/shed%20build/Placing%20of%20the%20shed/29102010195.jpg)
That's it, it i now up to me to do all the interior work. fortunately I'm not on a tight time schedule.
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Erik, it is huge and looks great! ;D
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Ha, who has a two floor gameroom!! :lol:
I got one :D
And i have now been renovating it, for about 1 year... so in the next 6 month i hope to be done with it:)
Hope you will have a "House Warming Game Party something something" when you are done with it :)
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Hope you will have a "House Warming Game Party something something" when you are done with it :)
You bet. ;D
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Ooooh, you're going to have fun insulating that ! ;)
I hated it.....
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Thats awsome Erik!
upstairs i would make tables between the supports, when you sit in a chair, the height is not a problem
and i would reserve a corner for repairs upstairs, there is always work with electronics where you dont need the whole cab upstairs 8)
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Looking great!!!!
You can use the first floor for pcb storage!!! Or just storage! :spaceace:
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Oh no! Its flooded already!!! Good thing the games are not in yet... :P
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upstairs i would make tables between the supports, when you sit in a chair, the height is not a problem
and i would reserve a corner for repairs upstairs, there is always work with electronics where you dont need the whole cab upstairs 8)
GREAT IDEA, might just do that.
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Just out of curiosity, did you make any progress? The building itself is already looking great by the way...
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I think Ckong is still very busy collecting cocktail tables for his attic ;)
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Just out of curiosity, did you make any progress? The building itself is already looking great by the way...
No, not yet. First the concrete floor had to dry out. It's pretty dry now, and at the moment I'm planning to get the final floor in (4 cm insulation and on top of that a nice smooth cement floor of 6 cm). I will do that probably in a few weeks and when that floor is dry I will start with the insulation works.
At the moment I'm pretty tight up with other things, so progress will be slow. But I should be able to finish it all by spring or so.
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amazing. It looks awesome! :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Yes, really nice! Can't wait to see this finished :D Good idea with the 2nd floor Gameroom for Consoles. This will be awesome!
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Good idea with the 2nd floor Gameroom for Consoles. This will be awesome!
Yes, it will. I will put all my consoles on the second floor in a separate room, with a variety of TV's and 15K and 31K professional monitors, a nice seat for racing games, etc.
Just to give you an idea about the type of consoles, CBM 64, Commodore 500+, Atari 2600, NES, SNES, N64, Megadrive, PC-Engine, PSX, PSX2, XBOX, XBOX360 (including an Asian for the hottest SHMUP's around), Gamecube, Wii, Dreamcast. ;D ;D That will be awesome, because I will have room enough so I don't have to put them away every time after I played a console. And there will also be a desk where I can sit at and work with electronics, do repair work, etc. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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What a great idea to make that 2nd floor a place for your XBOX etc! Carpet it all up, and get chairs or bean bags! you could insulate the ceiling and cover it with thin carpet as well! Lots of great potential up there!
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What a great idea to make that 2nd floor a place for your XBOX etc! Carpet it all up, and get chairs or bean bags! you could insulate the ceiling and cover it with thin carpet as well! Lots of great potential up there!
Yep. :D
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carpet on the walls and ceiling :o
hey its not a whorehouse ;D
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Nah, whorehouses have mirrors on the ceiling.
At least, that's what I've heard.... :oops: ;D
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it's been a few months since the last update - any news on this, erik?
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yep, stage two will start in two weeks. This weekend I had a carpenter and an electrician over, i told them what I want and they will start on 10 december with isolating and finishing the internals of the shed and at the same time install all the electricity.
I will have enough space for appr. 20 cabs and a football table in my gameroom, and maybe a pinball and some console stuff (yes, it's going to be anb allround gaming heaven :) ) which means that the electricity plan has to be thought through very well. Like André's gameroom, and others, I will have a switchboard to control the power of the cabs by pairs (individually is just too much), ceiling lights per groups, other electrical outlets on the ceiling (for a beamer amongst others) and walls. Yeah, it will be a bit like a control room. I wonder what I will play more, the games or the switchboard. ;D
By the way, the electrician was very enthousiastic about my electrical scheme which I prepared for him, which makes me very much wonder if he is any good! ???
So yes, it continues, but I don't make any plans yet for the big opening. For all i know, something else comes in between and another delay is there.
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Finally, after a year, progress have been made. Today was the start of phase 2, finishing the interior. First insulation works
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000293.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000294.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000297.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000301.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000303.jpg)
Probably not very exciting to watch, but it was exciting for me.
I hope to finsih the insulation next week and start with the inner walls and electricity works.
And there I need some help, or tips. I will need a switch board or panel with 30 switches in order to be able to turn on/off cabs, lightning, lighted decoration and other stuff individually. The switch board will be placed on the wall near the entry door.
Now..... I got a quote for a switch board, but it was more than € 500 !!!! (for the Dutch guys: een meterkast met 30 1-polige automaten) :o No way, José. Then I checked if it would be better to use simple and common wall switches, 5 switches in a row, 6 rows in height. But that is even more expensive. >:(
so, who knows of a cheap way to get a kind of switch board solution?
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Like Andre's, That will work out fine, not too expensive neighter IIRC
otherwise you could look for 2e hand switches, many times if someone rebuilds the house they replace all the switches and outlets because they dont like the style or something like that.
there is a possibility that you end up with different switches then, but if thats not a problem..
mayny time people who replace them throw the oldones in the trash..
but i think Andre's solution is much more nice :)
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can't find info on that. :oops:
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call / email Level 42 ;)
Or, if Andre is reading (which i know he is ;D) post some pics / info here please :P
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call / email Level 42 ;)
Duh!
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Duh!
;D
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http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=85528.200
This solution won't work for me, it's simply too deep. I have to think of something else.
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Exactly :
(http://gallery.me.com/andre.huijts/100392/DSCF2333/web.jpg)
That looks tight right ?
I like them alot.
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Yep, but too deep. I suppose it needs about 15 or 20 cm space behind it, I don't have that.
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Yes, it this case there is a fixture behind it, but...
I know there exist just 19" panels with holes for these switches, and separate switches that fit in there..
so that will only take up about 3 - 4 cm of depth..
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so that will only take up about 3 - 4 cm of depth..
which would be great. how do you call them, so I can search for them?
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http://www.koopverlichting.nl/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=351&cat=Mini+schakelaars (http://www.koopverlichting.nl/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=351&cat=Mini+schakelaars)
Artikelnr:32-057440 , black case red switch 3,75€ pp
Artikelnr:30-057435 , white case red switch even cheaper, 3,55€ pp
The metal 19" rack strip, i also need to find, dont know how they call that
And this is just a google search, maybe there is another supplier that can deliver them even cheaper.
the term i used is "wipschakelaar"
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Electricity installation is almost done
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000349.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000358.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000372.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000374.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000378.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000371.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000379.jpg)
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Great Job :) Can't wait to see this one finished, full of games ;)
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Looking good Erik!!
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great, erik! did you do that yourself?
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great, erik! did you do that yourself?
Partly, I designed the electricity schema (where to put wall sockets, wall and ceiling lightning, etc), but the actual wiring schema was done by an electrician, it looks pretty complicated to me. I'm afraid that if I would do the wiring, the lights in the nearby village would go out if I turn the lights in the gameroom on. :D Or even more likely, nothing would happen at all.
With the schema in my gameroom I will be able to:
- turn 26 cabs on/off per pair of two
- turn the 6 ceiling lights on/off per pair of two
- turn other sockets on the ceiling and walls on/off individually
- turn on/off outer lightning
- etc.
The 'control panel' next to the door will have 30 switches to turn on/off stuff.
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With the schema in my gameroom I will be able to:
- turn 26 cabs on/off per pair of two
- turn the 6 ceiling lights on/off per pair of two
- turn other sockets on the ceiling and walls on/off individually
- turn on/off outer lightning
- etc.
The 'control panel' next to the door will have 30 switches to turn on/off stuff.
Wow, 26 cabs!!! Weeeeeh!!!
Like the way you can turn stuff on and off pair wise!!!!
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(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000371.jpg)
Looks like your'e going for "normal" switches afterall ?
(http://www.elroshop.eu/images/productimages/big/HE308EU.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000378.jpg)
Do i see it correctly that this stays "outside" of the wall ?
or is there comming a box around ?
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Looks great, can't wait to see the cabs inside. ;)
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Looks like your'e going for "normal" switches afterall ?
(http://www.elroshop.eu/images/productimages/big/HE308EU.jpg)
Do i see it correctly that this stays "outside" of the wall ?
or is there comming a box around ?
Yep. There will be a frame arounf the switches of course, and the whole 'panel' will be surrounded by a small cabinet, also useful to put all the keys in etc.
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Another, weekend gone by, and more progress with the gameroom.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000380.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000381.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000382.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000383.jpg)
Here is a picture of the other side of the shed, this room will be used for general storage, parking place for my motor bike, etc. And I noticed a twin in it also, some strange looking cabs, wonder where they came from ??? What to do with them? ??? Don't know. ;D ;D
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000385.jpg)
They have a nice dry and clean spot there, and they are not standing in the way. So if someone knows the two, don't be afraid, they can stay a while longer if needed. ;)
Oh, and here is a picture of the ingredients for my real-life game "sheep hunt". Still 4 to go.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000386.jpg)
and if the sommer gets very hot, and I'm tired of gaming, then I will just take a dive in our ...
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000387.jpg)
Allright, next weekend another update, I hope. :)
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erik, i'm officially jealous! ;)
you really are living in the middle of nowhere with a NATIONAL PARK around you! what a fabulous place. i wished something like that would exist in my hometown!
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This is gonna be so perfect!
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Those 2 Star Wars are a nice gameroom decoration. ;D
I'm sure the lucky owner will take them very soon.
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Great job! ..and what a fabulous location :-*
:spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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That looks great
Nice space you have there
When you make that dive take some pictures ;)
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Just read through the whole of this thread and what a fantastic topic this is...hats off to you Erik i'm loving your enthusiam for your new games room (looks really professionally built so far i have an eye for good workmanship with me being in the joinery trade)
This is gonna be one cool looking man cave (where you can escape from the wife for a good few hours a day and be a teenager all over again :lol: 8))
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Yeahyeahyeah.....fire up the BBQ my friend, we'll provide the meat ;) ;) ;) OK, better wait a couple of months ;)
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... This is gonna be one cool looking man cave (where you can escape from the wife for a good few hours a day and be a teenager all over again :lol: 8))
Yeah, that's the idea. ;D
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:lol: would do the same myself if i could get away with it :oops:
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gameroom + private park for fairs ? :P 8)
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OK, the fact that I decided to downsize the hobby a bit, doesn't mean that the built of the gameroom has come to a hold. I mean, a half-finished shed is good for nothing.
So here is an update of the activities of the last few weeks. All walls ans ceiling are now insulated and covered with plasterboard and because I had this 'brillant thought' last week that it would be good to also have a space for storage (game boards and other stuff) and a place for a desk and a cabinet, yesterday a 'USA-style' office corner was created.
Here are a few photo's
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000431.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000434.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000435.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000438.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000439.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000463.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000478.jpg)
And in between I created this private little ice-skating track for some kids from the village:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000450.jpg)
That will be fun.
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Good to see you here mate !!!
Sizing down shouldn't be that hard really. Sell the plastic, sell the consoles, mission accomplished ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Seriously a lean and mean collection is worth more than an infinite number of projects that will never be finished (says the guy who has still SO much to do ;))
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Sizing down shouldn't be that hard really. Sell the plastic, sell the consoles, mission accomplished ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
LOL
But yeah, I will sell some 'plastic', but also some 'wood'.
And you are 100% right, it's better to have a collection with games that I really want to play, then just collecting games for the sake of numbers. So, my goal is to downsize to max 15 games. But I won't sell console stuff, they are also very enjoyable.
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Great to hear from you! :spaceace:
And great progress in the shed, i love plaster board, it´s so easy to work with!!!!
And that frozen pond is great, now you only need 2 goals, then you could have a hockey match!!!
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great to hear that you're back, erik, i was a little bit worried you might get out of the hobby completely. welcome back on board!!!
Seriously a lean and mean collection is worth more than an infinite number of projects that will never be finished (says the guy who has still SO much to do ;))
:P i'm far away from an infinite number of projects, so keep 'em coming ...
seriously, i'd love to work on more games at the same time, but unfortunately space is an issue "up here". hopefully i will have infinite space one day - and if not i'm sure i can sell off my games as well. as for now, i just love roadtrippin' way too much to quit ... 8)
p.s.: every single time you show pictures of your estate i'm more and more impressed - living there must be a dream come true!!! are you living in the middle of nowhere, on the outskirts of your town or does every single house in your area have parklike premises like that? can you read between the lines that i am officially jealous?
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Welcome back Erik !
Cool to see a private iceskating place, i just returned from some winterplay with my little helper, and boy we had fun.
(same place as last year, and same fun :D)
(http://www.opdenkelder.com/pics/snow2.jpg)
i can only imagine to have this in my backyard ;)
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Good to have you back Eric! 15 games is still very impressive and will leave room for the side art to shine.
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That office corner is a great idea, don't forget to leave some space for a fridge. ;D
You live in a beautiful place. ;)
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Guys.....wake up.......that office is only there for tax reasons..... ;D ;D ;D
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Guys.....wake up.......that office is only there for tax reasons..... ;D ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D
Of course, to make it authentic, you have to tape badly printed pics of sexy arcade babes on the wall of your office ::)
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Of course, to make it authentic, you have to tape badly printed pics of sexy arcade babes on the wall of your office ::)
Will sleep over it tonight :)
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Again a small update ;D
Yesterday I finished all the woodwork in the gameroom. :D So, now it's time for the plastering of the ceiling and the walls, a job which I don't like to do at all (I think that it's a horror to get everything nice and smooth), so a professional will take care of this. All walls and the ceiling will be done with 'spachtelputz', something like this: http://www.alco-stucspuitwerk.nl/spachtelputz.htm And with a bit of luck this will be finished next week.
It will make the walls very strong, and easy to give them a color (or more colors) afterwards. I still don't know which color(s), but I like the seventies style of this (the orange color in particular) :)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/24816350_31dffa7830_o.jpg)
But is you guys have better suggestions about colors or other decoration possibilities, then please spill it. For the floor I'm thinking about 'kliklaminaat', in black or another dark color. I'm not sure yet, though.
Anyway, here are some dull pics of how it is now:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000490.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000494.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000491.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000492.jpg)
In my mind I already have a picture of where to put which games, and the corner where the toolbox is will be the Japanese corner, with some great candy's, Japanese arcade art etc. :D
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Looking good Erik!
Really like the colors on the first picture, so warm!
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looking really nice, eric! orange is of course THE 70s color and if you decide to add some furniture, there's a lot of space age stuff from the 70s out there. i'm a huge fan of that era / design!
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Nice....about colors.....what I noticed in my gameroom: the side that I did in blue (well purplish blue) totally covered in only two layers. The red side though I did four layers and I could STILL see the background a bit....but don't worry, you'll never notice once the games are in place ;)
Good progress !!!
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Looking good Erik !
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000490.jpg)
I see you got the rare black edition of Sega's Hangon ;D
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It will make the walls very strong, and easy to give them a color (or more colors) afterwards. I still don't know which color(s), but I like the seventies style of this (the orange color in particular) :)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/24816350_31dffa7830_o.jpg)
Orange all the way! It's almost the same one I've used for my game room v1.0 :arrow:
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/room/psec2.jpg)
That color looks great in 'daylight environment' but also in 'the dark', which is not the case for all the colors.
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I see you got the rare black edition of Sega's Hangon ;D
LOL
yep, it's very rare!! :D
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it will make the walls very strong, and easy to give them a color (or more colors) afterwards. I still don't know which color(s), but I like the seventies style of this (the orange color in particular) :)
If you want to go all seventies, it's orange, yellow and brown.
You could put a small booth window on that corner office with a "Change" sign over it for the full effect.
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You could put a small booth window on that corner office with a "Change" sign over it for the full effect.
Haha, great idea. ;)
Even just a sticker with a booth window on it so you don't have to actually cut a window in there.
Very "gameroomesque".
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Another awesome read, so jealous as is 3 times the size of mine, but then that would leave me room for 3 times the amount of projects :o
Your location is fantastic, can't wait to see this one finished and full of loveliness, great job so far Erik
Maybe opposing walls in one colour remaining 2 in another for some contrast. Not a great fan of single colour walls :)
Andy.
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This is a great thread. I just went from the first post to the last.
Very interesting to see the different designs of sheds around the place.
Here in Australia the typical shed is constructed from steel frame and sheet metal cladding. Like this:
(http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/3880/garage4b.jpg)
I always enjoy seeing the little details that make a gamesroom a gamesroom, all the little personal touches.
Well done.
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Preparations are done for this Saturday, when the walls and ceiling will be coated.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000496.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000499.jpg)
The room will look completely different after the weekend. ;D
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Don't go for laminaat. It will make the room sound too hard, and you will need someone to swipe dust every day. Your nagalmtijd will be way to high, not comfortable with all the game producing nice sound effects. Carpet is probably the only option, as I don't expect curtains very much in there!
Just grab antracite naaldvilt. Cheap (50m2 is brought and laid for you for 500€), rugged, easy to clean and good on the acoustics. And a dark colour keeps the focus on the games. The floor should not pull attention!
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I would go with Andre's solution for the floor, looks pretty nice imo.
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i would NEVER go with carpet. Since your gameroom is a separate building like mine, you will "walk in" a LOT of dirt and stuff. or if you wheel in a game on a hand cart the tires will run it in....
Just MHO.
I am very happy I went with the black tiles, a bit of brooming and some mopping now and then and its clean and tight. I should have gone for tiles with a flat surface though. Mine are a bit rough which makes it somehat hard to slide cabs for a small distance.
Also....in an ideal world all my cabs should have teflon leg levellers...
The sound is no problem at my gameroom because I have the walls covered with glassfiber wallpaper.
There is no echo or whatever. Your walls will have a harder surface and thus more reflection.
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In order to get some inspiration for my gameroom interior, I visited this site: http://gameroomjunkies.com/index.php/category/gameroom-showcase/
Most of you will have seen it before, but there are some great gameroom photo gallery's.
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Another day gone by, another progress report.
Today I had a professional 'spackspuiter' (what is the English name for it?) at my place who did the finishing of the walls and ceiling.
It's a process with 4 steps:
1. Covering all area's that don't need to be sprayed. This gave me a bit of a headache yesterday evening, because I only painted the woodden skirting along the ceiling and the window frames yesterday afternoon. The label on the paintcan mentioned 'dust dry after 3 hours'. Yeah, my ass, at 11 PM yesterday evening, 6 hours after I finished painting, it was still very, very sticky. So I pulled in an air heater that I recently bought, and fortunately this morning the paint was dry. Poeh!! 8)
Picture:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000510.jpg)
2. Spray the first layer, in phases, and smooth out every bump or hole that still exists (afmessen). This is a very time consuming job, because it has to be done very precisely. And it has to be done in phases, because if you first spray the entire room, you will find that the first part has dried out too much too be egalized.
Pictures:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000517.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000519.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000522.jpg)
Almost done:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000525.jpg)
3. After the first layer has dried out a bit, which only takes half an hour or so, the second layer is beeing sprayed, which will give a nice structure on the ceiling and walls. The thickness of the sprayed structure can be adjusted by using different nozzles on the spray gun. I choose a very fine structure, which makes the walls and ceiling look very smooth. The spraying of the entire room only took about 15 minutes:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000530.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000532.jpg)
4. Removing the protection tape on the skirting:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000533.jpg)
Done and finished: ;D
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000534.jpg)
I don't have to paint the walls if I want them to be white, there is no shine through from the plasterboard. But I will paint some (parts of) walls in a colour, don't know how and which colors yet.
Until so far ....
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Wow, very fast with that painting method! :o Well done! :)
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spacksputter- i'm guessing 'plasterer' . not seen that method before with the spray, we would call the process 'skimming' you skim a thin layer of plaster onto the plasterboard as a finished layer. :)
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Looking great! ;D ;D ;D
I would prefer carpet, Just put in an entry floor foot wiping mat.
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Carpet is nice, though i choose to have tiles in the Shed, because when you have parties, not everyone respects the mat.... ::) ;D
Also, tiles can withstand a great deal more...
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Looking great Erik, can't wait for your "color plans". ;)
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Another update :)
The last few weeks nothing has been done on the construction of the gameroom, because ….. that part is finished. ;D ;D
But that doesn’t mean nothing else has been done. In fact, I’ve been doing, and still am doing, what I hate a lot: painting woodwork and walls. :evil:
But I first has to select some colors, and I got my inspiration from these great arcades
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/24816350_31dffa7830_o-1.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/IMGP9846-1.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/IMGP9852.jpg)
R.I.P.
So I choose the colors purple for the switch cabinet, orange for both sides of the two smaller dividing walls and night-blue for the other walls. I painted the window- and door frames with ‘Rambo Pantserbeits’ boerenwit. I like the color and I still had two pints of it. And because paint is very expensive nowadays, I just as well use it.
Did I already say that I hate paintjobs? I mean, everything takes so long. First you have to clean the woodwork, then you have to cover the walls because you don’t want to have paint on the walls, do you? Then you have to put a layer of primer on it, then sand it, then the first coat of paint, sand it again, then the second coat of paint. And then ….. remove the bugs and other insects which got stuck in the wet paint …. And start over again with the second layer, after sanding of course.
I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. :evil:
And about wall paint, never believe what shop assistants tell you. I bought my wall paint at the Praxis, and this girl told me that the orange paint would cover in one layer, one. I looked in here beautiful eyses and I believed here. Stupid me, of course it took 3 layers!!
But finally I got about halfway now, all the woodwork is done, as are the dividing walls (yeah I know, orange …. ) and the switch cabinet. So today I covered everything, including a stroke of the ceiling, and now I’m ready for the final paintjob: the four walls. This means about 60 m2. Times 3!!! Fortunately I have a week holiday this week, and who wants to enjoy the spring sun if he can enjoy some painting? :'(
Anyway, enough complaining, here are some fresh photo’s, taken today.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000538.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000536.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000539.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000544.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000542.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000545.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000549.jpg)
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Good progress erik !
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Looking good so far... Purple, orange and blue, I can't wait to see the final outcome! :)
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I agree. I actually quite like it when you are finally painting but ALL the preparations needed suck big time.
I guess the story for your orange is the same as my red....it takes lots of layers.
I buy my paint only at De Verfkoning now. Next time you are here we should really visit the place just for fun, it is unbelievable, but so are their prices compared to Praxis etc. It is really close to your former Rotterdam storage.
Keep at it, the results look very rewarding !!!
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orange is THE color of the 70s - i'd definitely chooe that one as well!
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orange is THE color of the 70s - i'd definitely chooe that one as well!
+1, I guess Erik also prefer this colour, his office was alreday painted to orange. :D
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Orange is THE color [PERIOD] ;D
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orange is THE color of the 70s - i'd definitely chooe that one as well!
+1
Orange is THE color [PERIOD] ;D
:D
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just wnt through the pages again. Awesome work :) The plasterboard looks so cleand and well organized. The electricity installation looks like it was planned :)
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I recommend yellow & green (& white) ;D
(http://abload.de/img/img_6584mdxzg.jpg)
(http://abload.de/img/img_6561p1lfb.jpg)
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Your paint colors looking great!!! :D BTW, what are you going to place in the partitioned off section of your game room?
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Thanks. The white walls are now darkish blue, I painted them last week.
The separate corner will be a place for my console games, there will be a desk in it, a fridge and a storage cabinet.
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A new update. All walls are now painted, orange and blue. And last week I layed the laminate floor.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000551.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000552.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000558.jpg)
Last spot ...... and after this first coat I needed a second one. :(
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000563.jpg)
Floor work:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000566.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000570.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000571.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000572.jpg)
That´s it. Only things still to do is the floor skirting and the electricity. Normally I would have done electricity before painting etc, but unfortunately for a good reason I couldn´t. So it will be the last thing to do.
Oh, and I bought this neon last week on the Bay, it will look great:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/pacman-neon.jpg)
As will this one (next one on my shopping list)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/ARCADEGAMEROOMFINAL800.jpg)
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Today it´s update time, so here goes my second post of the day.
Normally I would wait with getting cabs into the gameroom until at least electricity works would be finished, but my wife thinks that she has been ptient enough allowing some cabs in our bedroom. :) ;D :lol:
And she is right, as always, so today I already moved some cabs to the gameroom. But the first one needed some new ´feet´ (how do you call them in English?)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000582.jpg)
I replaced them by some very nice teflon ones, which Olly gave me when I collected his Gravitar.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000583.jpg)
Unfortunately I only had one set, can someone tell me where I can get more of these? They are very nice because they don´t damage the floor and you can slide the cab around pretty easily.
Anyway, The black lady is ready to enter the gameroom
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000587.jpg)
And here she is, not on her final spot, but in the gameroom. YYYYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH !! The first game is in :spaceace: :spaceace:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000589.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000590.jpg)
And quickly accompanied by another great game
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000591.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000593.jpg)
And to top it off, some Asian temperament was added :D
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000594.jpg)
This Candy cab will be accompanied by two other ones.
Here they are all three, let´s see if the can stand each other. :lol:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000595.jpg)
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wonderful, erik, i like what you're doing in / with your gameroom - keep the pics coming, please!
as for the leg levelers, these are exactly the ones i've been using for a long time, i got them in bulk from a KLOVer, but he doesn't carry them anymore because i bought everything he had left :P. but, you can order "the exact same model" right here (http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/LL25-EZG), if you take 10+ they get much cheaper. hwoever, from what i know, shipping is pretty expensive on that site!
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Looks totally kick ass!! :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Yes, those feet are called leg levellers and indeed those are GREAT.
Does Phoenix allow a custom text or did you hack the ROMs ?
That BW looks as sexy as .....a Gravitar ;););)
Nice fridge, looks really spacy ! The display in the door looks a little bit expensive though. ;D ;D ;D
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------ Nice fridge, looks really spacy ! The display in the door looks a little bit expensive though. ;D ;D ;D
LOL
The Phoenix rom was hacked, not by me though.
Thanks for the link Ully, I might get some there.
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perhaps we could get togehter on this one, shipping is really a pain in the a**, just checked: 35 bucks shipping alone - that's insane!!!
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------ Nice fridge, looks really spacy ! The display in the door looks a little bit expensive though. ;D ;D ;D
LOL
The Phoenix rom was hacked, not by me though.
Very easy as long as the program doesn't do CRC checks on itself...I used to do it on my A8 a lot with all kind of games, simply using a hex editor.
By the way, you look über cool carting that BW in with just one hand....thank god you didn't drop it :):)
The gameroom is starting to get a soul !!! :spaceace:
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perhaps we could get togehter on this one, shipping is really a pain in the a**, just checked: 35 bucks shipping alone - that's insane!!!
Eurocade groupbuy :)
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perhaps we could get togehter on this one, shipping is really a pain in the a**, just checked: 35 bucks shipping alone - that's insane!!!
You guys tried Ikea for them?
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http://www.bkservicesonline.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=33_179_856
Have they the correct size?
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These are all metric sized and since most cabs are from the US these are useless.
Also, they don't have the teflon underside which makes it so easy to move them....
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Congratulation... It's a great moment, entering the first game inside a finished game room :)
I love the blue/orange combo more than ever! :-* ;)
:spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Congratulation Erik!!! :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Yes! Finally your gameroom is ready! I am waiting for new pics ... :D
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Yeah, that orange blue combination rocks!!!
Congrats Erik. :spaceace:
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Looking Great Congratulation 8)
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Gotta love this. Good job! More pics pls! :)
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real phoenix +black widow +fun colors = very good start 8)
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Looks great erik, just remove the fridge ;) ;D
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the floor and the wall colors looks great. I could imagine that you can't await placing your cabs. :)
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Awesome job Erik! - i know exactly how your feel!!!! GREAT JOB! :spaceace:
Now fix the plugs, and get the rest of the cabs in there, and take a couple of photos for the crazy bunch!!!! ;D :spaceace:
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Well done! I like the chosen combination of colours and the neon signs you bought will indeed look great in your gameroom.
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WOW! I love it!! It's gonna be a mix of classics and new school stuff (like in my cave ;D) I like that! Go ahead, finish it and I will be glad to be the guy who fires on the barbecue ;)
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Thanks guys, for all the kind replies. I was anxious to hear your thoughts about the colors and I´m glad that you like it. But mnore importnat is that I like it too. :D
And PRC, you´re my man and you will be certainly the ´chef d´barbecue´ at my opening party. :) No date set yet though.
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I got something really nice today for my gameroom. I oredered it already almost a month ago, but finally it arrived a my place
Because I knew that the content was very fragile, I was very pleased to see how it was packed. One of the most thoroughly well done parcels that I ever saw, and this goes for the box and for the way the content was protected.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000646.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000649.jpg)
Thanks for the nail clipper. :lol: I assume that it is a gift. What kind of neon could be in it, it costed me only US$ 10 :lol: But fortunately the neon was the one that I ordered. The US$ 10 must have ben to fool customs. ;D Check out how good it is packed.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000651.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000654.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000655.jpg)
And here it is, alive and well. Watch the reflection for the correct colors, for some reason my camera can't fetch the good colors directly from the neon.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000659.jpg)
I think that it is great and I sure will order more from the guy. He has great clippers!! :lol:
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Nice ! I want the Atari neon, but I got to spend my money on other "things" at the moment..... ;)
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totally love it :-*, although i'd prefer one without the pac-logo at the bottom, only the ghosts! :ghost: :ghost: :ghost: :ghost:
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Super cool, can't wait to see it attached to it's final place. :D
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totally love it :-*, although i'd prefer one without the pac-logo at the bottom, only the ghosts! :ghost: :ghost: :ghost: :ghost:
He does custom work, so you can ask whatever you want....
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NICE !!! :spaceace:
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looks awesome plus customer friendly shipping !
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I love these neon signs, but they wash out everything with bright light in the dark gameroom. I was considering finding lightly smoked plexiglass to put over the front of my neons, that way you could enjoy the signs without them overpowering the room.
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It was beautiful weather over here today, and what did I do? I was working my ash off, transporting all my games from the temporary storage to my gameroom, finally. 8) ;D Not that the gameroom is completely finished, but I didn´t want to rent space any longer if it is not really necessary.
I only decided it Friday, and therefore I only could rent a 12 m3 little van, which meant three drives. But that was OK, I had enogh free mileage and the rent was not that expensive. I didn´t only move games, but also all kind of household furniture.
Anyway, the following few photo´s are fom the last drive, this afternoon. In it is a Star Wars cockpit (@André, do you still have the missing woodden board?), an Asteroids, a Sega New Astro City, and in the back my first cab ever, a self-build Mame cab.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000696.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000697.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1000698.jpg)
So, finally all the games are back at home. Unfortunately the gameroom doesn´t look like a gameroom, it looks like a Warehouse!! :lol: I had to shove in the games pretty quick and won´t have time to re-arrange all the games for the coming weeks. Therefore no pics of the chaos in the room.
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I see nothing missing on that SW ? ;D ;D ;D
yeah I think I got that backdoor here somewhere, I use it as an underlay whenever I have to spray paint stuff..... ;D ;D ;D
I didn't remember we removed the original tube too though, do I have that here too ? I do know I have the NOS one here safely on my attic....would be nice to get rid of it somewhere in summer ;);)
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I have the original tube in my attic, it´s just the tube, the ´neck´ electronics are in the box with the NOS tube.
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Ah, phew....so my memory was correct for a change ;)
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Ok, it´s time for a little update. Although, not much of an update because there has been little progress. Electricity still has to be done :oops: and some other small stuff too.
In the meanwhile I´m a bit busy arranging and re-arranging (and re-arranging) the games is the room, and now it´s visible what I was afraid for already for some time .... the room is too small, meaning that I will have to get rid of some cabs. And that´s a difficult decision. OK, not all the time, because today I stripped a generic wooden cab which wasn´t in good shape anyway. So suddenly I have a spare monitor with chassis and a complete wiring for a Jamma cab. And a chunk of wood. Maybe I will make a nice fire of it in the Autumn. :twisted:
So, one cab too many has left the building. But I still need to get rid of 4 to 5 games. What a torture to pick them! ??? :?
Last week I also bought something to bring a nice atmosphere in the gameoom, a mini laser stage lighting ( http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Mini-Green-Red-LED-Stage-Laser-Projector-Lighting-Adjustment-Disco-Club-DJ-Light-/251067889225?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Other&hash=item3a74cff649#ht_4590wt_920 ).
It only set me back 20 bucks, and I tested it today and it had a very nice effect. I don´t imagine that I will have it switched on for hours, just for shorter moments.
But I have absolutely no knowledge of Class 3 lasers, so I´m wondering, can these lasers cause damage to the cabs, or to the monitors? Or to a neon on the wall?
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You don't have to be worried about damage to cabs, monitors or neons.....I'd worry about people's eyes !
As long as you don't look straight into it it's fine I guess....so let it project on a wall or ceiling, above where your eyes are anyway...
Pretty cool thing....maybe...... we can test it at Eurocade ;D ;D ;D
About the games.....want me to help and choose ? Let's have a full list of what you got... I am sure I can help you choose very wisely ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Yes, there came a warning with it regarding eyes, that's why I'm going to mount it on the ceiling, so there is no danger. And I already planned to take it with me to Eurocade, will be great, it can easily 'reach' the whole room.
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Hey Erik?,
I just read the whole thing and it was really good. What happened?
- Nic
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Hey Erik?,
I just read the whole thing and it was really good. What happened?
- Nic
Not much for most of the time. Real life and other things got in the way.
But actually,since last week I have electricity in the shed, not everywhere yet, but it is a start. I will post some new pictures soon.
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How is it getting along?
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I was about to ask the same thing, Haven't seen updates in a while.... Pix Please! ;D
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A lot has been done the last months, not only in the gameroom, but everywhere inside and outside our house. Actually the house almost got a complete overhaul, and the finishing of the gameroom went along with it in the slipstream.
What has been done in the gameroom?
- I finally got real electricity over there, so I could ditch the extension cable which I used so far. We had to dig a trench of 45 meters long and 80 centimers deep, underneath the drive way and through the garden. I didn´t like this at all, but it had to be done. In it went a thick red tube in which a flexible watertube, an electricity cable (carrying 380V) and an UTP cable were drawn to the gameroom.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040357_zps78ff25d6.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040357_zps78ff25d6.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040382_zps164b362e.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040382_zps164b362e.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040395_zps092844c5.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040395_zps092844c5.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/14970856-ce8d-44e9-ba31-e23a90fd2b53_zpsaff15aed.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/14970856-ce8d-44e9-ba31-e23a90fd2b53_zpsaff15aed.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040404_zpsb75925f8.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040404_zpsb75925f8.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040437_zps4398280f.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040437_zps4398280f.jpg.html)
After that it was time to do part of the pavement again, along the driveway and in front of the shed:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040544_zps8327151f.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040544_zps8327151f.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040549_zpse2ba78db.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040549_zpse2ba78db.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040590_zpse3d0d05e.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040590_zpse3d0d05e.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040598_zps10f29ed3.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040598_zps10f29ed3.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040607_zps5c677d19.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040607_zps5c677d19.jpg.html)
Then I started to set up and decorate the gameroom. At the ceiling came 8 TL armatures, with coloured sleeves (red on the outside and blue on the inside). Unfortuntely the next few pictures don´t show the colour of the tubes very good. Anyway, the gameroom is almost done now:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040625_zps17582081.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040625_zps17582081.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040623_zpsde6ed18c.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040623_zpsde6ed18c.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040619_zps42fb0616.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040619_zps42fb0616.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040618_zps99cb1733.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040618_zps99cb1733.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040612_zpsa991a89f.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040612_zpsa991a89f.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040621_zps082be145.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040621_zps082be145.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040610_zps9076ac42.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040610_zps9076ac42.jpg.html)
And the Candy corner:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040614_zps05f24a08.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040614_zps05f24a08.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040615_zps07257c17.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040615_zps07257c17.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040617_zps57942f7c.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Gameroom%20Final/P1040617_zps57942f7c.jpg.html)
I now have room for 20 classic cabs and 3 Candy´s, which means that there still is one empty spot, for Juno First. One more thing to do is to find a nice solution for a music system. Does someone have a good idea for a solution that takes little space (recently I saw a very nice and tiny wall (CD) jukebox which needs little space)?
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Very nice, love these topics (lot's of shoot'em up games, you're favorite genre :))
What happened to your afterburner dlx? (thought that you owned one, red it somewhere or am I wrong)
just wondering, why didn't you build the shed next to the house so you just go through a door to get to the gameroom?
Now you have to go 'outside' to go to the gameroom. Is it because of the material used, wood instead of bricks or is it a permit kind of thing?
Now it's a shed else it's part of the house?
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Awesome Erik, definitely one of the best looking game rooms around! And a what an great selection of cab's... :-*
Looking forward to seeing in real life! :D
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Very nice, love these topics (lot's of shoot'em up games, you're favorite genre :))
What happened to your afterburner dlx? (thought that you owned one, red it somewhere or am I wrong)
just wondering, why didn't you build the shed next to the house so you just go through a door to get to the gameroom?
Now you have to go 'outside' to go to the gameroom. Is it because of the material used, wood instead of bricks or is it a permit kind of thing?
Now it's a shed else it's part of the house?
Afterburner dlx, well, real life got in the way (meaning, wife said no way) and I sold it before I collected it. :) Best decision ever.
Building regulations don´t allow me to build the shed next to the house, it had to be built behind the house. Besides, I didn´t want to ruin part of the garden next to the house for it and the shed is not only a gameroom, it is also a gardenshed.
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looks great Erik :spaceace:
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Looking Great!! Love the Tetris Light!!!! :D
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Amazing room! Great cabs, love it!
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Wow! The room looks great! And the cabs are beautiful! Nice way to hang the marquees too! :spaceace:
I absolutely hate those lasers though. I wish laser pointers were illegal. >:(
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Turned out really nice, I especially like the way, you attached those marquees to the wall. :D
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Great sight! looks really cool.
Marquee's make excellent decoration, did you came up with the fixing idea after EC12 ? ;) ;D
also smart to get UTP in the pipe while you where digging, you never know when you need it !
did you also put in some "blank" pipe for possible future needs ?
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Turned out really nice, I especially like the way, you attached those marquues to the wall. :D
Thanks. Yes, I like easiness and simplicity. ;D And this way the marquees can be replaced or re-arranged without any effort.
... did you also put in some "blank" pipe for possible future needs ?
Yep, but only under the pavement, a solid pvc pipe of 100mm. And there still is a fishwore (trekdraad) in the red tube, all the way to the shed. But hey, I have water, electricity and UTP, what would I need more? :D
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you never know what will be invented ;)
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Yep, but only under the pavement, a solid pvc pipe of 100mm. And there still is a fishwore (trekdraad) in the red tube, all the way to the shed. But hey, I have water, electricity and UTP, what would I need more? :D
Heater pipes ;D
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Wow! That looks really nice. I would love to have a building like that. It's soooo clean! Must have been a lot of hard work. Congrats!
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Wowk, it looks very great! I love the colors chosen, the lights, ...everything!
Game on!
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Really nice gameroom you got Erik!! I really like the ambience!! :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Thanks guys, for all the kind words. :) Yes, it turned out exactly as I had hoped and especially at night, when it is dark outside, the atmosphere is fantastic.
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Whoa dude, what an amazing looking gameroom! Beautiful decoration and excellent lighting. Truly a professional arcade!! Congrats, man!
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What an awesome room....would feel very well there ;)
Congrats!! :)
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Totally awesome Erik !
of course I had the pleasure to see several phases of the project and Im really happy for you your dream is ready now !!!
The only thing a bit out of place seems to be the Gravitar, but Im sure,we can work something out ......you know that a Tempest would fit in much better ;););););)
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Well, if you had a Tempest, then we probably could have done a swap. :) But you don't have a Tempest. :-\
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Need a Jamma cab ? ;D ;D ;D
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That's soooo clean and cool.
Love it, I'm happy for you buddy!
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Hi Erik,
Just back from Italy and reading up on the forum. Great finish man, looks top notch. Love the line up. :o
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Thanks.
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Latest addition, and my first pinball:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/High%20Speed/klein_zps9ac16983.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/High%20Speed/klein_zps9ac16983.jpg.html)
Great music and sounds, great gameplay, great lights, 80's atmosphere. So, cool additon to the gameroom.
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Nice one, music rocks indeed. ;)
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i am not really a pin guy, i do like to play a round or two.
but what i do like is the Art on the backglass, those cops on there are awesome ! :spaceace:
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Yes, those cops really look badass
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Good choice, love this pin. Have this one for over 20 year. Love the vocal intro of the multiball.
Cop: "Dispatch this is fireball one.... He got away. "-silince-" Dispatch: "he what!!" Cop: "He got way" .... Drum solo, flasher, multiball ....
So cool :P
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We met the designer some years ago....
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We met the designer some years ago....
Sweet, where was that?
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In prison? ;D
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Awesome place, thanks again for having us, Erik!
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Next to my gameroom there is another small place, meant to be a working space for cab repair, fiddling with pcb's etc. Unfortunately it was always crammed with cabs, an old jukebox, a motorbike and other rubbish. But.....
I sold the motorbike, the jukebox an a huge House of the Dead. Wow, that creates space!! ;D
so, time to clean up the room even further and I now have divided the new space in 3 area's,
A corner to store the cabs that need repair:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1080520_zpsoy6f5v5m.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom%20built/P1080520_zpsoy6f5v5m.jpg.html)
A wall to temporarily store stuff that I will sell (the blue cab is my first (Mame) cab, built in 2003. I will throw a multi-game pcb in it and sell it to some fool on marktplaats):
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1080521_zpssgqeltkn.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom%20built/P1080521_zpssgqeltkn.jpg.html)
And at the rear a nice work-shop area:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1080529_zpsudtumuvk.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom%20built/P1080529_zpsudtumuvk.jpg.html)
Still pretty empty, have to 'gather' some electronic equipment etc. to be able to actually do some electronics repair. The stairs, which has a hinge, can be lifted with the electric winch. BTW, the cardboard box contains a NIB .... :) ;)
It's a nice place.
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nice setup, erik, i especially like the "for sale section" ;D
BTW, the cardboard box contains a NIB .... :) ;)
let me be the first to guess correctly: a NIB toilet seat!!!
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Nope, not even close. :)
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Great so now there is space to receive us ;D
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I first will have to create more space in my gameroom. The ms.pac is gone, some others will follow.
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I know you heared it quite often, but your gameroom is AMAZING!
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Thanks. :)
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i think i know whats NIB ;) :D
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So, finally, after a few decades it's time to do an unboxing of this box
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1080529_zpsudtumuvk.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom%20built/P1080529_zpsudtumuvk.jpg.html)
and reveil what's in it. Tada .....
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Crazy%20Kong/P1080576_zpsvq7fywk8.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Crazy%20Kong/P1080576_zpsvq7fywk8.jpg.html)
In the 'spotlight':
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Crazy%20Kong/P1080579_zpsqqytjm3m.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Crazy%20Kong/P1080579_zpsqqytjm3m.jpg.html)
Finally ..... ckong gets his Crazy Kong! :spaceace:
The 'Donkey Kong' game that I used to play in my childhood years. Only heard about the 'real' DK years later. I've many fond memories of Crazy Kong. :D
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Finally ..... ckong gets its Crazy Kong! :spaceace:
a crazy kong? c'mon, i was REALLY close with my toilet seat guess :P
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LOL
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Enjoy, cking 👍👍👍👍
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NIB Crazy Kong? Woaw! :o :-*
What's the story behind this?
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NIB Crazy Kong? Woaw! :o :-*
What's the story behind this?
isn't that macgyver's put in a box?
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NIB Crazy Kong? Woaw! :o :-*
What's the story behind this?
isn't that macgyver's put in a box?
:lol: ;)
Nice joke huh, the box!
Actually, the box does contain a NIB item, a table soccer game that I bought at Paul's 50's a few years back, with the pac-man, ms. pac-man and galaga group buy.
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Detective Luigi compared the two pics and he found out that the box does not reach as high as the CK cab. You can comparte at the TRON poster ;)
So where's a picture of the table soccer that was in the box? :)
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WOW ! now thats a nice looking Crazy Kong ! ;) ;D
Seriously, i am happy that it went to a good home, it did not get the love it deserved at my mothers place.
I wish i could give it the love that it deserved, but i was unable to satisfy this lovely lady ;D ;D ;D
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WOW ! now thats a nice looking Crazy Kong ! ;) ;D
Seriously, i am happy that it went to a good home, it did not get the love it deserved at my mothers place.
I wish i could give it the love that it deserved, but i was unable to satisfy this lovely lady ;D ;D ;D
It will get plenty of love at my place, don't worry. Nothing creepy though! LOL :D
@Luigi, the table soccer is still in the box. No space yet to set it up.
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So, I have been busy last January because I finally wanted to complete the whole shed. The gameroom was already finished, but there still was one section, 1/3 of the shed, that needed some attention.
End 2016 this was the situation of that section:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1080529_zpsudtumuvk.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom%20built/P1080529_zpsudtumuvk.jpg.html)
And in January 2017 I did this >>
The ceiling:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080801_zpsizbzjzeh.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080801_zpsizbzjzeh.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080806_zpsuyxhrovs.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080806_zpsuyxhrovs.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080807_zpsyxcfbskx.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080807_zpsyxcfbskx.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/20170123_154315_zpsceevmik5.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/20170123_154315_zpsceevmik5.jpg.html)
Let there be Light!
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/20170124_153910_zpsxt2pcn5y.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/20170124_153910_zpsxt2pcn5y.jpg.html)
The floor (I was so lucky to find the exact same floor as I already have in the gameroom, at a huge discounted price LOL):
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080810_zpspi0wnjfw.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080810_zpspi0wnjfw.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080811_zps2woufuta.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080811_zps2woufuta.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080813_zps7zpzuige.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080813_zps7zpzuige.jpg.html)
And this is the endresult, as of today (including a homemade workbench):
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080849_zpsgeq6uah8.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080849_zpsgeq6uah8.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080851_zpsywdbj2ok.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080851_zpsywdbj2ok.jpg.html)
Let's give that stepladder (funny word) a kick, up it goes:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080855_zps60kbu4pc.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080855_zps60kbu4pc.jpg.html)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080856_zpssztpdq2e.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom/Last%20part%20gameroom/P1080856_zpssztpdq2e.jpg.html)
That's it, for now. Only one small thing left to do is installing two windows in the double door, to get some daylight in. This is something for Spring.
You all noticed that there is only one game in it, The Zaccaria Moon Crest (played that game so much back then, the US version that is). And that will remain so because this section of the shed will not be part of the gameroom. Instead, tomorrow there will arrive another machine that will fill up the gap in the empty corner. This place is going to be my workshop for all kinds of great stuff to be made. ???
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nice erik! do you have any current pics of your actual gameroom as well?
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Looks like a great space you've made, plenty of room for tinkering with all sorts!
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nice erik! do you have any current pics of your actual gameroom as well?
Nope. And it's a mess at the moment. And not all cabs made it to 2017. And yes, Joust is still in the house. ;)
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Looks great! Good job :)
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Looks fantastic, i wish i was more of a handyman myself!
The windows will make the icing on the cake for sure!
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Nice room!
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Turned out really nice, great decoration also. :D
The Moon Crest gives a unique atmosphere for the whole place. :spaceace:
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..... The Moon Crest gives a unique atmosphere for the whole place. :spaceace:
I totally agree.
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Next to my gameroom there is another small place, meant to be a working space for cab repair, fiddling with pcb's etc. Unfortunately it was always crammed with cabs, an old jukebox, a motorbike and other rubbish. But.....
I sold the motorbike, the jukebox an a huge House of the Dead. Wow, that creates space!! ;D
so, time to clean up the room even further and I now have divided the new space in 3 area's,
A corner to store the cabs that need repair:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1080520_zpsoy6f5v5m.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom%20built/P1080520_zpsoy6f5v5m.jpg.html)
A wall to temporarily store stuff that I will sell (the blue cab is my first (Mame) cab, built in 2003. I will throw a multi-game pcb in it and sell it to some fool on marktplaats):
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1080521_zpssgqeltkn.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom%20built/P1080521_zpssgqeltkn.jpg.html)
And at the rear a nice work-shop area:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/ckong65/Gameroom%20built/P1080529_zpsudtumuvk.jpg) (http://s50.photobucket.com/user/ckong65/media/Gameroom%20built/P1080529_zpsudtumuvk.jpg.html)
Still pretty empty, have to 'gather' some electronic equipment etc. to be able to actually do some electronics repair. The stairs, which has a hinge, can be lifted with the electric winch. BTW, the cardboard box contains a NIB .... :) ;)
It's a nice place.
hi wow ! nice ...is possibile to have a pic of dr mario green ! im doing a sort of that ! :D
wow !