All the artwork (side / CP / Marquee) was printed by my girlfriend on a HP DesignJet 5500 60" wide printer, on HP production gloss heavy paper, she works with large format printers (this is one of many in her print lab - but it is the best).
I designed the side art with a 1" bleed all the way round, to give me some wiggle room in mounting. The adhesive was 3M Super 77.
The main concern in mounting was that I would 'miss' accurately positioning the side art first time, and super 77 does not allow for repositioning, once it touches it's on there. I carefully lined up the art work and got two corners in position (lots of practice first without adhesive) and my girlfriend used a roller while I made sure the print was only touching in the right places untill the roller got there.
I designed the side art so that I would be able to miss and it would not show, as long as I was within the bleed.
The side art was designed by me - basically it is a combination of several photoshop filters, and I think it came out rather well.
Once the glue was fully dryed (well about an hour) I got a straight edge and scalpel and carefully trimmed the side art.
I was planning on doing a bezel too --- but to be honest I love the look of the smoked plex! When it is off you cannot see the TV behind, and when the it is on, the picture just kind of floats in the darkness and looks really cool - so I am going to leave it as it is.
Last night I also did a custom mamewha skin that matches the cab art and ties it all together - and I'm currently working on thw winxp boot screen and log in /shut down screens.
The last thing to add I have on order I should receive next week. It is a Tira
http://www.home-electro.com/tira1.htm intrared transmitter reciver. I am going to use Girder
http://www.girder.nl/ to learn the IR codes for the TV for <power up> and <vid select>. I've ordered the caseless OEM Tira, and I will be mounting the IR led behind the bezel infront of the TV's IR reciever. Then the plan is that Girder will load automatically with windows, send the codes to bring the TV out of standby and then switch to svid mode.
This will make the cab a one button deal for powering up and powering down. Currently everything is controlled via a smartstrip which powers up / powers down everything when power to the PC is sensed - the power button for the PC is hacked to an arcade button on the front of the cab. One press to turn it on, one press to shut it down.
- Krynos