My Nikola Tesla themed cabinet build

[Gwen]

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.

[Vanlon]

That's some nice original wood work!

[bushav]

Beautiful!!!

[Gwen]

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/