Cabinet Build Progress

I have been slowly building another cabinet in order to showcase my Game Boy game once it's published. I have previously made arcade cabinets before but they've always been rather basic as I was learning as I went. I wanted this new cabinet to something a little special.

My Game Boy game, Squirrel Falls, is based in a cute woodland village and I wanted the design of the new cabinet to reflet this. 

With all my arcade cabinet builds, it is the monitor that governs the size of project and I have an old square monitor from years back, which has the perfect dimensions to run an emulated Game Boy game. Next came the control unit and I wanted this to be a little different, something a little different to the usual joystick and buttons and so I used the control unit I designed and laser cut recently, (the design files you can download here).

Once I have built the main frame, using the remains of a previous telephonic project (that happened to be the perfect width to house the monitor), I the started to laser cut the main surround. Oak leaves and acorns were then cut out, painted and applied in a random(ish) pattern and this is the current state of the project so far.

At the heart of the arcade cabinet is a Raspberry Pi that is running Retropie in order to play my Game Boy ROM. The only thing I've bought for the project so far are the speakers that took a little bit of fiddling to get the sound outputting from the Raspberry Pi.

I would like the bottom half of the cabinet to be as equally as pretty as the top half. I'm planning on laser cutting a map of the woodland village of my game and having it set into a panel that will sit above the control panel whilst hiding the speakers. I also posted my progress with this project over here on Reddit and the feedback has been great. There have been comments about the control unit but I think I will keep it as is, as I like the uniqueness of it.