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[ChanceKJ]

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[Le Chuck]

Milled plastic or foam block letter painted with fluorescent paint under a blue LED wash so it pops.

One user posted a really sweet foam marquee a year or so ago but let his thread die IIRC.

[ark_ader]

How many games are you thinking of having?

I always wanted to do a scrolling marquee with a roller blind and a drill motor.


I just had a crazy thought. 

Are you old enough to remember Colorforms?

[ChanceKJ]

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[pbj]

Neon is going to be blinding at that distance.

How about something like a backlit lenticular marquee?

https://www.rwcdigitalgraphics.com/rwc_4.html

[ChanceKJ]

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[Louis Tully]

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[ChanceKJ]

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[Le Chuck]

Found a shot of what I was talking about:



Do that as namco and back lite it like Nep did his Two Headed Beast and you've got yourself a slick marquee at a fraction of the cost and blindingness of neon. 

[drventure]

I'm all over that nixie tube idea

I'm guessing you're thinking fixed letters because most nixies only contain a combination of a few letters or numbers?

It'd be fantastic to have the nixies light up with the name of the maker of whatever game was played. Perhaps a bit too ambitious though 

[BadMouth]

Blacklight paint with UV LED strips on the marquee glass hidden by the marquee retainers.

[yotsuya]

Found a shot of what I was talking about:



Do that as namco and back lite it like Nep did his Two Headed Beast and you've got yourself a slick marquee at a fraction of the cost and blindingness of neon.

Totally agree. That just seems like a lot of scratch to drop on a marquee. Do it like above and you can get a better looking effect for way less.

[drventure]

Totally agree. That just seems like a lot of scratch to drop on a marquee. Do it like above and you can get a better looking effect for way less.

+1 Save the neon budget for a Beer sign on the wall or a "flynns Arcade" sign 

[Dungeonsdeep]

Found a shot of what I was talking about:



Do that as namco and back lite it like Nep did his Two Headed Beast and you've got yourself a slick marquee at a fraction of the cost and blindingness of neon.

This is exactly what I was thinking, but if you could get it made of some sort of translucent plastic, and backlight it, then maybe using a piece of tinted glass in place of a standard marquee strip.