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Author Topic: Trouble getting side art for my Lucid MAME.  (Read 1422 times)

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Trouble getting side art for my Lucid MAME.
« on: June 03, 2010, 10:37:43 pm »
Hi. I am new to this group and hobby. Just recently finished my first MAME cab based on Lucids design from the project arcade book. However I am having trouble getting some side art for it.
I have always liked the electricity side art you see on some of the prefab cabs out there as well as for my control panel top. So I contacted Scott from gameonGrafx to see if he could maybe custom it to the Lucid specs. Evidently it is to time consuming to do it so he cant do it for me. My question is does anybody have any ideas to get a good custom fit for my Lucid cab? I have seen the square side art stickers that you stick on here and there but wanted something to actually cover the  cover the whole side. Not just part of it. Any other web sites? or ideas?

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Re: Trouble getting side art for my Lucid MAME.
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2010, 12:35:50 am »
If you're doing lightning, why not just paint it on? I would think with some time and patience you could paint the cab a base color and then use painter's tape to make stencils of a sort to do the lightning effect. Remove the tape and perhaps outline the lightning with another color to make it pop.

Or, if that seems like too much work, talk to Rich at ThisOldGame.com - he does top notch work.