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nitz:
I was looking at a Pacman cab today in the wild, and it looks to me like the bezel art is actually painted on the other side of the glass. It looks nice. How the heck would you do this? Spray paint and stencils? Has anyone here ever attempted this?

Or am I mistaken and is it a printout sandwiched between 2 pieces of glass? Looks too good though, looks like it's actually on the glass.

equlizer:
Its painted then a laminate overtop.  Those were printed using a machine using iduno what type of paint.

nitz:
Yeah, that makes sense, I was thinking it looked too good to be stencils and paint. Still, I wonder if it would be possible to do something like this with stencils and spray paint as long as it was kept basic, ie you probably wouldn't be able to do fine details like small text.

wweumina:
Silk-Screening on glass.  It takes more work depending on how many colors you need.  I've heard of print shops and even glass shops that will do it but it but it isn't cheap for a one-off custom job.

TOK:
If you want to do this type of thing for your own cab, you can use plexi and paint made for plastics. The paint made for painting Lexan car bodies works great. I've done it a couple times, though only very simple patterns... I did black with a starfield on it for my Stargate bartop and also did stripes on plexi to match the art on my control panel to the art on the cabinet.

The starfield was very simple. I made random holes in a piece of cardboard and sprayed through it while rotating it around to different spots on the bezel. Laid the black down after that. The control panel is just varying thickness tape stripes.

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