Gwen Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 I am in the process of building a Nikola Tesla themed virtual pinball cabinet. I recently finished building the backbox and coin door. I am building the cabinet from 3/4" birch plywood and a few original antique furniture parts. The backbox is topped with a Tesla coil driven device that generates lightning inside a 6" glass disc and 4 homebuilt faux Tesla era vacuum tubes lit with LEDs. I built a coin mechanism into the door so that it accepts pennies. I will get started building the main cabinet once I have purchased the playfield monitor (43" 4k). Gwen Here are a few photos of where I am with the build right now: Here's my test rig set up with the finished backbox. I also cut the plastic handle on the shooter rod off, drilled and tapped the rod and attached a brass knob that matches the one on the coin door I built. Here's a D-Pad I built for menu controls etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanlon Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 That's some nice original wood work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushav Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Beautiful!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwen Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 If you would like to see photos of the finished (is a project like this ever finished?) cab check out my thread here: https://vpinball.com/forums/topic/my-nikola-tesla-themed-cabinet-build/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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