OutRun Restoration Part 5: Cabinet
Still buzzing from fixing up the dashboard and steering, I was keen to keep momentum so I started with the restoration of...
OutRun Restoration Part 4: Dashboard & Steering
In the previous part, I restored the pedals. That turned out to be an absolute doddle compared to the dashboard and...
OutRun Restoration Part 3: Pedals
Having finished restoring the gear shifter, I moved on to the accelerator and brake assembly. It was fully working, but...
OutRun Restoration Part 2: Gear Shifter
I chose to tackle one of the smaller parts of my newly acquired OutRun US upright first - the gear shifter. ...
OutRun Restoration Part 1: New Arrival!
Back in early April 2019, someone on the ukvac forums posted about an OutRun arcade cabinet that had come up for sale...
Garage Conversion Part 11: Game Room
Time to put some finishing touches in the game room! 🙂 It'd already had a paint job, carpet tiles were laid,...
Garage Conversion Part 10: Carpet Tiles
OK, the top half of the room was done, now for the bottom half. You'll probably notice that the game room...
Garage Conversion Part 9: RGBW LEDs
Finally on to some fun stuff! So the plan was to get some nice multi-coloured LED strip lighting to go around...
Garage Conversion Part 8: Damp!
So after finishing the workshop, it now had to be crammed full of my arcade cabs and everything else, so I could...
Garage Conversion Part 7: Workshop
With my workbench built, it was time to finish the workshop! I figured there's no point working on both rooms at...
Garage Conversion Part 6: Workbench
Finally I had the stud wall up, and an official workshop! It became apparent very quickly that the next thing I...
Garage Conversion Part 5: Stud Wall
So the ceiling is finally soundproofed, there's nothing stopping me splitting the garage into two rooms now!
Like with...
Garage Conversion Part 4: Soundproofing
So with the first electrical fix done, and the old garage door removed and replaced with nice swinger-outers, it was time to...
Garage Conversion Part 3: Electrics
With the new garage door installed and finally some space, it was time to tackle the electrics. That meant ripping out...
Garage Conversion Part 2: New Door
Making a start on the garage conversion at last - I couldn't do much until the old crappy up-and-over door was replaced...
Garage Conversion Part 1: The Idea
Early in 2019 I finally got around to starting work on the garage to convert it into a game room and workshop...