Oh Happy Day. Artwork arrived today. Here is my artwork laying experience.
Picture 1: Got the artwork in. It's a little darker than what I was seeing on my monitor, but a little color differentiation is normal.
Picture 2: Sidepanels lookin good!
so installing the side art was a lot harder than I thought it'd be. First of all my dumb ass put vertical lines on it so I had to make sure that they weren't crooked. With the 1/2" of bleed I added in it was difficult to line up but I got it and clamped the artwork down. I peeled 1/2 of the backing and laid it down. I didn't do this very well on the first try. luckily I peeled it back a few times and got rid of
most of the bubbles. Then came the T-Molding. oh man. I decided to fold over the artwork to get a nice clean edge. It worked awesome... mostly. Some of the corners buckled ever so slightly which leads me to...
Picture 3: one of my lessons learned. I found that I had to fan cut the corners or they would bunch up.
Picture 4: once fanned (or cut a bunch of times to make small sections) it folded down nice and smooth.
Finished that all up on the other side and...
Picture 5: lookin pretty solid. (not sure what the corner up top is showing. looks fine in real life)
Picture 6: Right side was much easier once I learned how to slowly
scrub along the art to avoid getting bubbles.
Picutre 7: Marquee looks awesome! It looks off against the white t-molding, but when the monitor is in there with the black bezel it will look sweet.
Picture 8: ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
Stupid cold cathodes don't light up the entire box very well. I thought they might not be super bright, but full. We'll i'll have to see about adding some larger ones, or something different. I don't have much room in there, so hopefully I can add some smaller ones on the side, or find 16" or so ones instead of the 12" ones.