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Title: Fishing Themed control panel
Post by: Evilpenguin on April 12, 2007, 03:29:42 pm

Hi Everyone

I am trying to come up with some ideas for a fishing themed control panel for my arcade cabinet.  The name of the cabinet is "The Tacklebox"  But I can't seem to find any decent fishing related images to use in the design of the control panel.  Would anyone be willing to help or tackle this for me?

Thanks

Jason

Title: Re: Fishing Themed control panel
Post by: crashwg on April 13, 2007, 02:00:02 pm

An image of a stream is my suggestion.

Title: Re: Fishing Themed control panel
Post by: Evilpenguin on April 13, 2007, 03:00:42 pm

Thanks for the suggestion.....anyone else?

Jason

Title: Re: Fishing Themed control panel
Post by: fatfingers on April 16, 2007, 01:17:20 pm

(http://www.permatrophy.com/jpgs/Showcase/zoom/largeBass03.jpg)

(http://fish.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Esocidae/northern_pike.jpg)

(http://rapala.com/images/lures/freshwater/super_shad_rap_GSH.jpg)

(http://rapala.com/images/lures/freshwater/super_shad_rap_HT.jpg)

(http://rapala.com/images/lures/freshwater/countdown_S.jpg)

(http://rapala.com/images/lures/freshwater/glass_fat_rap_GBCW.jpg)


???

Title: Re: Fishing Themed control panel
Post by: SodaPopinksi on April 16, 2007, 08:18:58 pm

A few possibly crazy ideas I had:

You know those hunting/fishing paintings you see in like places like Bass Pro Shops catalogs or Cabelas, I thought it would be kind of neat to make a woody type cab like Knieval's for example and use marquee/ art especially that was from those paintings, it would look like an arcade cab in a hunting lodge or something.

Second, in a more colorful, "arcadey" type cab, I think it would be neat to have a water theme on the cp. Like what if the joystick dust washer was hidden under plexi and you had the joystick coming out of a lily pad graphic. Then maybe a yellow ball top (which resembles a lily pad flower bud) and then for buttons, imagine Happs red and white buttons, but switch the bezel/plungers so they are red bezels and white plungers or vice versa to resemble bobbers in the water on a blue background. Sort of logical since when you pressed them the "bobbers" would go up and down sorta, kinda lol.   

Then a crazy thought I had was to showcase some antique or newer lures somehow, like imagine a 3d type monitor bezel with like a black rack or shelf you could make that held actual lures with plexi over it for the bezel. Weren't there a few Sega fishing games in the arcade too?  Klov isnt working for me right now, maybe the art on those can give some ideas.

Title: Re: Fishing Themed control panel
Post by: Evilpenguin on April 17, 2007, 08:26:28 am

Thanks for the suggestions SodaPopinksi.  Those are really good.  One idea I had was to make the top of the control panel lily pads/weeds then have line coming down in different parts of the board with lures on it.  It's just implementing this kind of stuff since I am not very good artist or good with photoshop.

Jason

Title: Re: Fishing Themed control panel
Post by: allroy1975 on April 17, 2007, 09:42:31 am

did ya ever see a Toobin' cab with the good working marquee?  it's got one of those...beer sign light things....gives it a real looking river picture like..it's moving or something.

Title: Re: Fishing Themed control panel
Post by: koolmoecraig on April 24, 2007, 03:47:51 am

I would try to incorporate some images from the "Fish Tales" pinball machine:

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=861

PhoenixArcade.com makes full repro artwork for that machine.