Assistance needed in sprucing up my marquee (AI file attached)

[markronz]

Hello everyone!   
I have seen a LOT of creative marquees on here since I've been a member.   I'm sort of hoping to tap into that talent here, and ask for some help with my marquee.   I do have a lead for a design on my side art already, but I just think the marquee needs a little touching up.   My friend made the marquee for me, so I don't actually know how to do a lot of this stuff myself in Adobe Illustrator.  So I was sort of hoping there might be one, or a few people out there that might be willing to take a stab at touching this up.   First, let me explain a little bit.   My arcade machine will have a Tapper theme to it.  I've been referring to it as the Mame Tapper.   It will have a black and red color scheme to it as well (unlike the original Tapper colors).   So I guess I've sort of been trying to respect the original artwork of Tapper, while still changing it a bit to suit my own needs.   I've attached the a picture of the original marquee to give you some idea of what it originally looked like. Then I've also attached a jpg and AI file for my current marquee.   I know there are "effects" you can add to things in Adobe Illustrator, so maybe just adding some of those to the text might just push it over that "cool enough" line that I'm looking for.   The beer might need a little work too, but I wouldn't be heart broken if that didn't change at all.

Anyway, are there any takers out there that can help me spruce this thing up?

Thanks!

[markronz]

Well, I guess not.  I suppose I can live with how it looks now.  It's pretty cool already.

Thanks anyways.

[DashRendar]

Post this in the Artwork forum and you'll probably get the assistance you're looking for.   

[markronz]

Good point, I will re-post there.