Custom Cocktail CPOs

[JoyMonkey]

I've never done a CPO for one of my own cabinets, so thought I'd give it a try for my cocktail panels. I wanted to give them a retro feel, but nothing I tried looked right, so I've ditched the idea
I wanted them to look like generic mid-80's cabinet art. Why am I finding it so hard?

Here's what I've come up with so far. I used the circuit board graphics from the Blaster CPO. Still need to make button markers/labels.  Whatcha think?

[mahuti]

Wow, I think that's really awesome. It's different than most of the fanboy CPOs that I see.

Very nintendo.

[JoyMonkey]

Thanks for the kind words! In what way do you think it looks Nintendo? Just curious.

I did a little more work on it, realized that the joystick base is smaller than I originally thought, so I was able to make it a little more symmetrical by centering the start buttons.

[mahuti]

Fat lines. Geometric shapes. Horizontal lines.

[JoyMonkey]

Oh yeah.
I guess if I used a grid pattern instead of the horizontal lines, it would look more like Sega.

[whammoed]

Have to say I like it, though i'm a little tired of blue...seems a lot of people here choose blue for their cab..don't know why except that the mame logo is blue.  Still like it...maybe use Action1,2,3 instead of fire?  not every game has a fire button.

[JoyMonkey]

Have to say I like it, though i'm a little tired of blue...seems a lot of people here choose blue for their cab..don't know why except that the mame logo is blue.  Still like it...maybe use Action1,2,3 instead of fire?  not every game has a fire button.

I know what you mean about the blue. I can change the color easily, blue was easy to get started with though.
Originally I was trying out several different colors together; it seems that most classic CPOs were multi-colored. But I just couldn't get a good looking combination. That said, I probably only spent a minute trying colors. I'll try some more colors and see what happens.

Not sure about labeling the buttons 'Action'. Maybe I'll just call them One, Two and Three or A,B,C.
Thanks for the suggestions!

Edit:
Here's some quick shade changes:

[mahuti]

You can put the "diagonals off" on a joystick washer instead of on the CPO.

[JoyMonkey]

You can put the "diagonals off" on a joystick washer instead of on the CPO.

Actually, there's going to be a knob there for a custom 4/8-way switch that I've put together. I have too many joysticks just sitting aound to go and buy a T-Stik Plus, so figured out a way of making what I've got switchable. I'm just trying to find a good low-profile knob that suits it.

[Witchboard]

I really like it.  I think you could drop the "Arcade Classics" though.  It just seems to clash with everything else to me.  Other than that, thumbs up!

[mahuti]

yeah, the top version of "arcade classics" was more suited to this design.

[Pixelhugger]

I really really like it. Excellent job joymonkey. Excellent! Nice and clean... and retro. Super tasty!