ugh. I hate painting.
Me too. I know where one of my mistakes was last night, and that was that I should have taken more care to make sure there was no bare wood showing through from under the primer. That, and the fact that I did see some runs start, tells me that I was too anxious and applied the first coat a little too heavy.
I am happy with the fact that, because there's so much to do, it seems there's never a shortage of stuff to work on. I've got the majority, if not all, of the graphics complete for printing, and have determined that the preliminary prints will be done by Staples. All in all, you can't beat the $21 price tag I've got for my marquee, control panel graphics, and miscellaneous other prints. I do realize I won't get the glow through as I would going with Game On Graphics, but if I don't like the result, I will be investing more in a proper marquee print, don't you worry.
As it is, while waiting for the control panel to dry, I did some work on sample screens for Maximus Arcade. I've been doing my research, and thanks to The Doom Wiki article named, "
References to Classic Doom in Doom 3", there's actually a screenshot of the exact location that the Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 game had grabbed the texture from...
I did a little bit of cleanup, cropping out much of the scoreboard, and doing some 'creative editing' to remove the crosshairs and med kits, I got this...
Crop it all up, and then I could edit in some of the required graphics. First the startup screen...
...then the Emulator Selection screen...
...followed by the Game Selection screen...
I really love that I found the original Doom fonts, as they really make the screenshots look authentic. I copied the colours from the original Doom as well (red fonts with deeper red outlines) to keep it all in line, as well. I might have to do some editing of the cabinet positioning and size, to fit in line with the front end graphics, but I'm excited to see what it will all look like with the interface. I have not yet begun the actual generation of the front end theme, but I'll do some research and see what I can find out.