Fishing Themed control panel

[Evilpenguin]

Hi Everyone

I am trying to come up with some ideas for a fishing themed control panel for my arcade cabinet.  The name of the cabinet is "The Tacklebox"  But I can't seem to find any decent fishing related images to use in the design of the control panel.  Would anyone be willing to help or tackle this for me?

Thanks

Jason

[crashwg]

An image of a stream is my suggestion.

[Evilpenguin]

Thanks for the suggestion.....anyone else?

Jason

[fatfingers]

[SodaPopinksi]

A few possibly crazy ideas I had:

You know those hunting/fishing paintings you see in like places like Bass Pro Shops catalogs or Cabelas, I thought it would be kind of neat to make a woody type cab like Knieval's for example and use marquee/ art especially that was from those paintings, it would look like an arcade cab in a hunting lodge or something.

Second, in a more colorful, "arcadey" type cab, I think it would be neat to have a water theme on the cp. Like what if the joystick dust washer was hidden under plexi and you had the joystick coming out of a lily pad graphic. Then maybe a yellow ball top (which resembles a lily pad flower bud) and then for buttons, imagine Happs red and white buttons, but switch the bezel/plungers so they are red bezels and white plungers or vice versa to resemble bobbers in the water on a blue background. Sort of logical since when you pressed them the "bobbers" would go up and down sorta, kinda lol.   

Then a crazy thought I had was to showcase some antique or newer lures somehow, like imagine a 3d type monitor bezel with like a black rack or shelf you could make that held actual lures with plexi over it for the bezel. Weren't there a few Sega fishing games in the arcade too?  Klov isnt working for me right now, maybe the art on those can give some ideas.

[Evilpenguin]

Thanks for the suggestions SodaPopinksi.  Those are really good.  One idea I had was to make the top of the control panel lily pads/weeds then have line coming down in different parts of the board with lures on it.  It's just implementing this kind of stuff since I am not very good artist or good with photoshop.

Jason

[allroy1975]

did ya ever see a Toobin' cab with the good working marquee?  it's got one of those...beer sign light things....gives it a real looking river picture like..it's moving or something.

[koolmoecraig]

I would try to incorporate some images from the "Fish Tales" pinball machine:

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=861

PhoenixArcade.com makes full repro artwork for that machine.