Jinja Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) Took some photos for another thread talking about removing bezels from monitors.... http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=64930&page=2 I took a video at the same time and thought I might as well post it here. My pit consists of: TH2GO connected to 3 19" Smasungs with their bezels removed and inserted into a custom wooden frame. 17" no-brand monitor displaying MFDs and Helios. This monitor attaches via swappable jig and wingnuts to the underside of a custom-shelf so I can easily replace it with a G25 for driving. TM:Warthog (nice and cheap courtesy of Amazon ;-), replaced my X52 which needs to go to Fleabay soon! Central wooden jig to hold stick, angled at 15 degrees appropriately. I put 2 diving weights on the wooden base, and that supports it sufficiently so I can deflect the stick without having to compensate to prevent the whole stand from toppling over. Custom button console for leobodnar board, TM throttle. Quite successfully upholstered with cushioned arm-rest and finished in PVC finish (the skills I learnt for this damn simpit!) Seat was bought from a wreckers yard after I removed it from a dead-Citroen. Fully fitted on car slide-rails to wooden platform. Buttshaker bass-unit attached to rear of seat. You can see a visible shake from the camera (resting on the headrest) when I fire the GAU. Anyway, there you go! Edited January 11, 2011 by Jinja 1 i7@3.5Ghz, ATI 5870, 16GB RAM, win7 64bit, TH2GO, Track-IR, 4screen pit, TM WArthog HOTAS
JaseGill Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Pretty damn good I'd say. Want so share those Leo Bodnar custom made panels? I have one and would love to see what you have done with it. J. Rig: Home Built, water cooled,i5 2500K @ 4.3Ghz, ASUS P8P67Pro Mobo, 8GB Patriot Viper 2 Sector 5 RAM, MSI Nvidia GTX970 4GB Gaming OC, 120GB OCZ Vertex 2e SSD Boot, 120GB OCZ Vertex 2e SSD Games (BS & WH), Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB other, Samsung UE37D5000 37" LED TV,EloTouch 1600x1200 secondary, Thrustmaster Warthog No.467, Thrustmaster MFD, Saitek Pro Pedals, Track IR4 with Track Clip Pro. Ex RAF Aircrew, Real Life Pilot, proud Geek and father of one :)
walker450 Posted January 12, 2011 Posted January 12, 2011 Thanks for sharing!! Great pit! Speedpad for Inputs | My Simpit | Joystick Damper Mod
HitchHikingFlatlander Posted January 12, 2011 Posted January 12, 2011 Nice work! http://dcs-mercenaries.com/ USA Squad
RAF74_Raptor Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 Great work I like the Idea of the wooden frame I came I saw I got blown up by a SA-8:pilotfly: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] http://www.firstfighterwing.com/forums/content.php
walker450 Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 And when my wife asks me why I'm "destroying" 3 perfectly good monitors.... I'm gonna blame it on Jinja!! :) Speedpad for Inputs | My Simpit | Joystick Damper Mod
Jinja Posted January 13, 2011 Author Posted January 13, 2011 Yeah, you'll need a good wife, mine understands and encourages my creative bents, so I'm lucky there! ....I think she thinks she's training me up till I'm building custom furniture for the baby... ...and I'm not going to stop her from dreaming.... ;-) i7@3.5Ghz, ATI 5870, 16GB RAM, win7 64bit, TH2GO, Track-IR, 4screen pit, TM WArthog HOTAS
HitchHikingFlatlander Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 An understanding supportive wife is what every simmer needs, we already know Walker450's history lol. Luckily I have a cool wife too that wants me at home and not at the local bar or strip club!:devil: http://dcs-mercenaries.com/ USA Squad
nPulse Posted January 15, 2011 Posted January 15, 2011 Pretty damn good I'd say. Want so share those Leo Bodnar custom made panels? I have one and would love to see what you have done with it. J. +1 Could you please share some pictures of the custom board. I'm also planning to build a new custom board and in need of inspiration ;) Awesome pitt btw! :thumbup: [sigpic][/sigpic] Specs and Hardware: Win7 x64 Enterprise | i5 3570k OC'ed@4.5Gz | MSI GTX 660 TI OC 2GB | 16GB | Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H | Crucial M4 128GB SSD (OS) | Samsung 830 SSD 256GB (Dedicated to FSX) | Samsung 1TB | Acer 27" Monitor | TrackIR 4 | Logitech DiNovo MX-Laser Desktop | 27" Acer S273HL | Hotas Warthog and Cougar | Cougar MFD | Toshiba portege M205-s810 Tablet-PC for charts, touchbuddy etc. Win7 32 bit [/b]
Jinja Posted January 17, 2011 Author Posted January 17, 2011 (edited) Ok, will do tonight. I went for simplicity on the board. Took a 3-mill (maybe 5, would need to check) piece of ply. (At the time) I decided I needed a main-panel DCS:BS use, with generic compatibility for use by FSX. So I marked holes and drilled/filed away for a couple-hours. Next is my cheap-and-cheerful solution #1: Take a PVC black dinner-cloth (3 dollars off Ebay) and used PVA glue to attach this snugly over the front of the panel. The end-result is that the panel looks like it's made of plastic/acrylic like the plastics used on car dashboards... much better than painting a piece of wood black. Next pierce the cloth where the holes are and fit my switches. On the rear do all the wiring and connect to a Leobodnar board. Then to finish it off, c-a-c tip #2: Buy some Letraset letter transfers off the internet in different font-sizes. Rule lines in pencil and apply the transfers for symbology. The result is really effective. Sure I'll never have the time/space/money to start milling aluminum, so it's as good as it's going to get for me! Although at this stage I'm ready to rip it up and start again.... I don't see myself going back to BS in any extended basis, so I'm currently deciding how to refresh this for WH in mind... Edited January 17, 2011 by Jinja i7@3.5Ghz, ATI 5870, 16GB RAM, win7 64bit, TH2GO, Track-IR, 4screen pit, TM WArthog HOTAS
Feed Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 LOVE the PVC tablecloth approach - talk about cheap and effective! The ideas that folks come up with around here never cease to amaze me. 1
Jinja Posted January 17, 2011 Author Posted January 17, 2011 Thx! Oh yeah, and another idea along the same lines as the table-cloth idea. I'll show it in the photos tonight... but you see the whole console that the throttle sits on? All the sides of this wooden console are all finished in B&Q (that's a UK DIY store) black-leather-textured wallpaper (God knows what sort of EMO puts this on their bedroom walls!!), again just applied with PVA glue. This technique is REALLY effective. It really does look and feel to touch like a car-dash (whereas the vinyl table-cloth looks a bit shiny and plasticcy to totally convince). The only downside is the wallpaper would tear easily so it's is only suitable for completely flat sufaces, thus it wouldn't have been suitable for the arm-rest which has curves and angles where I've used padded-form between the vinyl and the wood for a proper-cushioned arm-rest effect. i7@3.5Ghz, ATI 5870, 16GB RAM, win7 64bit, TH2GO, Track-IR, 4screen pit, TM WArthog HOTAS
Jinja Posted January 17, 2011 Author Posted January 17, 2011 Here's the photos, highlighting the various things in the previous post.... i7@3.5Ghz, ATI 5870, 16GB RAM, win7 64bit, TH2GO, Track-IR, 4screen pit, TM WArthog HOTAS
Succellus Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 Very nice settings, better than i will achieve anyway. HaF 922, Asus rampage extreme 3 gene, I7 950 with Noctua D14, MSI gtx 460 hawk, G skill 1600 8gb, 1.5 giga samsung HD. Track IR 5, Hall sensed Cougar, Hall sensed TM RCS TM Warthog(2283), TM MFD, Saitek pro combat rudder, Cougar MFD.
531-Ghost Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 An understanding supportive wife is what every simmer needs, we already know Walker450's history lol. Luckily I have a cool wife too that wants me at home and not at the local bar or strip club!:devil: +1 :thumbup: :joystick:
Tnt Snipes Posted April 9, 2011 Posted April 9, 2011 Took some photos for another thread talking about removing bezels from monitors.... http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=64930&page=2 I took a video at the same time and thought I might as well post it here. My pit consists of: TH2GO connected to 3 19" Smasungs with their bezels removed and inserted into a custom wooden frame. 17" no-brand monitor displaying MFDs and Helios. This monitor attaches via swappable jig and wingnuts to the underside of a custom-shelf so I can easily replace it with a G25 for driving. TM:Warthog (nice and cheap courtesy of Amazon ;-), replaced my X52 which needs to go to Fleabay soon! Central wooden jig to hold stick, angled at 15 degrees appropriately. I put 2 diving weights on the wooden base, and that supports it sufficiently so I can deflect the stick without having to compensate to prevent the whole stand from toppling over. Custom button console for leobodnar board, TM throttle. Quite successfully upholstered with cushioned arm-rest and finished in PVC finish (the skills I learnt for this damn simpit!) Seat was bought from a wreckers yard after I removed it from a dead-Citroen. Fully fitted on car slide-rails to wooden platform. Buttshaker bass-unit attached to rear of seat. You can see a visible shake from the camera (resting on the headrest) when I fire the GAU. Anyway, there you go! Hey really nice setup... i am too planning to do something similar when i get enough money... i wanted to ask what is your system configuration for such a setup and does the frame rate drops...? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Jinja Posted April 9, 2011 Author Posted April 9, 2011 Thx. Specs are in my sig now. With 1.07, fps is silky. In 40/50s, with occasional dips with lots of high poly objects. That video needs updated... Does not reflect current performance. i7@3.5Ghz, ATI 5870, 16GB RAM, win7 64bit, TH2GO, Track-IR, 4screen pit, TM WArthog HOTAS
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