Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Artwork => Topic started by: Akuma on September 19, 2007, 01:20:17 pm
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Hello to everyone.
I am building my first cab at the moment and now I need to focus a bit on the art - especially on which colours I should give it. It's gonna be a scratchbuilt upright cabinet and since I am putting it into my living room, it needs to look like a really nice pieve of furniture. Therefore, it's important to give it the coolest colour possible - browsing through byoac I get the impression, that 90% of all the cabs are black with blue t-molding. I would like to avoid that and would appreciate your ideas very much.
I need suggestions for the primary colour, maybe a secondary colour and the colour of the t-molding.
As I mentioned, I'll put the cab inside my living room, close to my kitchen (which is opened and part of the living room) - I will add some colour samples of the walls and a picture of the specific place.
Maybe someone has some good ideas. I thought of something light blue with black t-molding perhaps?
Cheers.
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This is just my opinion, but Arcade machines made to look like furniture lose their entire appeal. The whole point of having one is to recreate that arcade experience and the original feel and look is the most important aspect to it. May I suggest if you are simply after the game play and that's it, then just bolt a matching wood stained control panel to your media center and put a nice computer monitor in front of it. Use a computer for emulation and viola, you have your nice looking game furniture.
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I guess you might have mistaken me with the word "furniture". I intend to find some colours to make the cabinet match it's environment and not to give it a woody look. Or are you saying that only black cabinets are recreating an aracde feeling?
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white cab with baby blue t-molding.
or a really light blue cab with dark blue tmolding.
I think your best bet is definately painting the cab some where between and including white and light blue. white or any shade of blue tmolding should compliment it well.
Ive seen most cabs are either black with blue tmolding, or black with red tmolding (like mine) but I think a lighter one would look pretty damn cool. I actually went with red on mine because it seemed everyone had black and dark blue.