My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
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My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
We finally cleaned out our basement (forgot to take a picture as it was filled with junk but believe me it was jammed with stuff - we discarded 2 FULL containers with junk).
One room is unused now so I decided to make the Arcade/Games Room of my dreams .
So this is what I have to beginn with:
It's an ugly, empty basement room .
As I said I want to make a room I like. The first thing I will do is a picture on one wall.
The picture will be this:
So the first thing I did was cleaning the wall - this was the result (yes that's just from ONE wall):
Have I mentioned it yet ??? - I don't want this R-Type picture done with paint I will do it (try it ) with ironing beads glued to the wall. So my next step was making ROUGH measurements on
the wall - result:
I calculated that I will need roughly 350000 ironing beads for that one wall . The first batch with 100000 is ordered .
I will post here whenever I have the free time (and desire) to do something in that room - hopefully in the year 202X the room is finished .
One room is unused now so I decided to make the Arcade/Games Room of my dreams .
So this is what I have to beginn with:
It's an ugly, empty basement room .
As I said I want to make a room I like. The first thing I will do is a picture on one wall.
The picture will be this:
So the first thing I did was cleaning the wall - this was the result (yes that's just from ONE wall):
Have I mentioned it yet ??? - I don't want this R-Type picture done with paint I will do it (try it ) with ironing beads glued to the wall. So my next step was making ROUGH measurements on
the wall - result:
I calculated that I will need roughly 350000 ironing beads for that one wall . The first batch with 100000 is ordered .
I will post here whenever I have the free time (and desire) to do something in that room - hopefully in the year 202X the room is finished .
Last edited by dingsbums on July 2nd, 2011, 11:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
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We officially have the craziest members anywhere. Great idea!
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
Crazy indeed! But awesome crazy!
What are your plans for the image? You can scale the pixels in a way so that rather than using one bead for one pixel you can do a 2x2, 3x3, or 4x4 etc block of beads to represent a pixel.
I'll be looking forward to seeing how you get on with this plus the whole game room too
What are your plans for the image? You can scale the pixels in a way so that rather than using one bead for one pixel you can do a 2x2, 3x3, or 4x4 etc block of beads to represent a pixel.
I'll be looking forward to seeing how you get on with this plus the whole game room too
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
This site just makes it far to easy for us crazies to congregate, then we pretty much try to one up each other.cools wrote:O_o
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
Wow that is gonna be KILLER! Just incase though... Have you thought about the exposure? You wouldn't cabs to get in the way of such an amazing piece.
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
Awesome idea, awesome project! Please remember taking pictures of the outbuilding process!!
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
This is truly awesome. Good luck dude.
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
Yes, we want accurate dot by dot upscalingFrancoB wrote:You can scale the pixels in a way so that rather than using one bead for one pixel you can do a 2x2, 3x3, or 4x4 etc block of beads to represent a pixel.
and scanlines
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
****. Me. This is gonna be the Sistene Chapel of game-rooms! Over a third-million beads... (Godspeed, you crazy diamond. Would it be possible to make some kinda stop-frame video of progress, from blank wall to finished artwork? THAT would be some hella vid!)
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
Good luck with ironing that many beads dude!
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
Took me long enough to do my 22k bead thingy. best of luck with it man. Iron it in sections
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
If it was me I wouldn't Iron em at all, I'd do something like mount those interlocking pegboards on the wall and glue the beads to the pegboards, or find a similar solution
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
Hi guys
Thanks for the nice comments.
A LITTLE update - the order arrived .
And just to illustrate how much (or how little ) area 1000 beads are - the sheet of paper underneath is DIN A4.
The first 5000 are done - 95000 to go .
Thanks for the nice comments.
A LITTLE update - the order arrived .
And just to illustrate how much (or how little ) area 1000 beads are - the sheet of paper underneath is DIN A4.
The first 5000 are done - 95000 to go .
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
This could one of the most awesome pieces of custom gaming art ever done, I salute you sir!!
For gods sake, its a carton box - not the holy grail!
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
WARNING! A HUGE BATTLESHIP IS APPROACHING FAST!
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
Lego one is awesome, I bet that wasn't cheap
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This is the beginning of epicness!
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Re: My Arcade & Games Room (Building it from ground up)
This is going to be truly awesome.
Have you planned all of your colours? I have a palette of 48 colours from 3 different bead makers and i still want more variations, grey is the bugger for sure.
Here is the R-Type ship which i knocked up a few months ago
Have you planned all of your colours? I have a palette of 48 colours from 3 different bead makers and i still want more variations, grey is the bugger for sure.
Here is the R-Type ship which i knocked up a few months ago