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kelemvor:

--- Quote from: MK3FAN on September 01, 2008, 10:03:12 am ---Here is how I did mine...


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Well, that shows what it looks like but how did you get it on the cab?  Did you print it yourself or have someone else print it for you?  Looks like you basically blew up that one photo and it fit perfectly...
MK3FAN:
Sorry. I got the art from Scott at www.mamemarquees.com. You just tell him the dimensions you want and he prints them out per your specs. All you have to do is line up where the art is going to be placed, peel back a little off the top, apply that portion, then pull the rest of the protective backing off from behind while holding the art outward. Then you apply more and more as you inch your way down from the few inches you started with at the top until you reach the bottom. I hope that makes sense. It's pretty much what happens in the first video, only I narrated it. (Oh, check for air bubbles as you go so you don't have to peel half of the art back off to get one out!)
RayB:
As you saw in the video, he got an air bubble with his method.

One way I've done is to spray water with a touch of soap in it. Apply the sticker... it will slip and slide so you can adjust the position. Then hold the top firmly and use a rubber squeegee to squeeze out all water.

We used this method getting ready some prototype games at a company I used to work at, for an AMOA show in San Antonio. I mention this because obviously a prototype isn't meant to be durable. So I don't know if there's a long-term potential for the adhesive to fail...


Zeppo:

--- Quote from: RayB on September 01, 2008, 05:17:53 pm ---As you saw in the video, he got an air bubble with his method.

One way I've done is to spray water with a touch of soap in it. Apply the sticker... it will slip and slide so you can adjust the position. Then hold the top firmly and use a rubber squeegee to squeeze out all water.

We used this method getting ready some prototype games at a company I used to work at, for an AMOA show in San Antonio. I mention this because obviously a prototype isn't meant to be durable. So I don't know if there's a long-term potential for the adhesive to fail...




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The soapy water method is what we used at Dynamo for all our production runs of Namco, Nintendo, or whatever else games we were contracted to make.
Works great.

Good luck.
MK3FAN:

--- Quote from: RayB on September 01, 2008, 05:17:53 pm ---As you saw in the video, he got an air bubble with his method.

One way I've done is to spray water with a touch of soap in it. Apply the sticker... it will slip and slide so you can adjust the position. Then hold the top firmly and use a rubber squeegee to squeeze out all water.

We used this method getting ready some prototype games at a company I used to work at, for an AMOA show in San Antonio. I mention this because obviously a prototype isn't meant to be durable. So I don't know if there's a long-term potential for the adhesive to fail...




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This same method is also employed when doing racing stripes on cars. I put stripes on my car and this method worked great!
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