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painting my cabinet...few questions

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garnerb350:
Severd, take this lightly, but if i had your cab i would...

(looking at the photo)
Keep the buttons, but change out the player starts (make them blue or yellow, not black)

Painting the cab: you could stay with black , BUT if you are wanting something different than the others...stick with a pac-man theme...go yellow cab / blue t-mold or do the oppisite.

Control panel: I would overlay the cp with vinyl using the same as your marquee but without text...(that pac-maze)

Switch out the bat handles on the joysticks with ball tips...(red? maybe)....I would make it overall look like an overgrown pac-man cab...anybody, yound or old would spot it and know then and there, "Hey that an arcade"

Maybe also on the side place vinyl side art of the pac-maze with "Zak-Man" on it...(possibility)


When I was creating mine, I had the same issue of trying to create a theme that i thought would "complete" my cab...In the end I went with black. I have the x-arcade and I had to do something to blend that ugly X on the cp...So I went black, red, gray, white color scheme when i was creating my marquee.

But look at this also...do what makes you happy, both ways it seems to me that your kid is happy regardless of what color it is...(looking at photo)

severdhed:
i plan on redoing the start buttons with novagems eventually, like the pause and exit buttons.  i just wasnt sure how i would like them, and at $5 each, i didnt want to buy a bunch of them and not like them.

i eventually want to do control panel artwork, but i'm just not 100% sold on the button layout yet, so until i find one that i am absolutely happy with, i wont do artwork...that stuff is expensive and i dont want to have to keep doing it.

i like the look of red balltops, and they are great for classic 4 way games, however i just can't stand playing fighting games on them, they just dont feel right. 

yellow sides with blue molding could look cool too....i have yet to run any of this by my wife yet...she may not be too keen on a giant bright yellow box in the family room.

thanks for teh suggestions guys...keep em coming

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