opinions and suggestions sought about custom artwork for cab

[dmarcum99]

Hi All!

I bought a gutted NBA Hangtime cab for the purpose to MAME it out.  I'm a big Kentucky Wildcats fan and I have a "UK" room at my house.  So, I know I kill the sellability of the cab when I do this...but I'm going to do a Kentucky Wildcat basketball theme.  Since I don't want to waste money on vinyl and not like the outcome, I designed the artwork in Illustrator and a co-worker made a 1/6th scale mock-up in corrugated material.

Although I can't be talked out of the UK theme, I am open for opinions and suggestions to improve what I've done so far.

[thatitalian]

I actually really really like this! It has a real "sports cab" feel but really plays on the 1 vs 1 theme!

However, I really dislike the Marquee.... Are you planning on changing it? Just because it is an arcade doesn't mean you have to have arcade characters on it. I would go with a NBA jam style marquee (which is available for download) and modify the colours and logo to fit UK.

[eclipso]

 I agree with the marquee idea 100% I think that would look amazing, Maybe move the UK logo on the sides either up or down (maybe even at an angle off the back) and a basketball added. Also on the control panel make it a replica court from a top down perspective adding in some hoops on each side and some balls and maybe some players on there. Maybe even balls around the joysticks and a HOME score display under one set of buttons and an AWAY score under another set of buttons.

[dmarcum99]

Thanks for the input!.. I wasn't sure what knd of reaction I was going to get.  I got the same feedback about the marquee from others too.  I'll have to go to the drawing board again on my marquee.  I had a version created with the same floor pattern I'm using on the sides, but in my testing, the marquee light really made the colors appear lighter and washed out.  Maybe I'll try to use an overlay to darken the image...

I like the idea about using basketballs around the joysticks and the scoreboard idea.  I need to see what I can come up with.  I really don't want to use any players on the cab beause I don't want to end up dating the cab. It would also be difficult to choose players to add and finding suitable images to put in.

I'll look into grabbing the NBA JAM image and see what I can do.

[eclipso]

Awesome, cant wait to see what you come up with.

[thatitalian]

Likewise. Those are some great ideas.

If you go with a decent print (like the ultimate from mamemarquees) the colour should hold well. There are a view posts on colour wash out so have a read around.