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More Cowbell:

Another vote for smoked plexi.

Roughy:

Going to get plexi shortly--hoping they have smoked at Menards!

We'll see what happens from there!

Thanks for all the feedback!

ahofle:

Doesn't smoked plexi make the screen darker?  The vector games for example are already too dark for my taste in MAME, can't imagine how bad they'd look with smoked plexi.  Also, dark blues are hard to see (Millipede comes to mind), even with clear glass.

AtomSmasher:

I've heard smoked glass is bad if you plan on using a lightgun.  I just used regular clear plexi and painted it black where the bezel would be, looks good IMO.

Roughy:

The smoked looks good, actually.

The only real problems that I see right now are...

1)  I need to close off/block off the marquee back.  The light is coming through below and kind of makes things look sloppy.

Maybe I can do some light spray paint on the back side to cloud that up a bit... ?

2)  I absolutely Fing SUCK at scoring/cutting plexiglass.  I've got a couple of uneven spots and some sort of "break" marks along the outside.

Rather than spending another $30ish on some more plexi and trying my luck, is there any sort of rubber strip or anything similar that I can run up the sides?  Frankly, I think tape would look tacky and while this doesn't look bad, I'm just too flipping anal about it and will want to do something to fix it.

Thanks!

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