Arcade build - Marquee and bezel fitted

The cut perspex has arrived from acrylic-online.co.uk. I'm pleased to say that it fits the marquee and bezel gaps perfectly.

For the marquee I borrowed the great design from angel88888 over on the overclock.net forums.  His post is here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1436501/hyperspin-arcade-machine-lots-of-pics

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I had to crop the image a bit of fit my cabinet. Cropped version is at the bottom of this post.

To print, I just used my inkjet printer,  it came out pretty well (in 2 piece's).  You can just see the join, I may get it reprinted at work on A3.  

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Here is the finished marquee in the cabinet.  

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The next part was the bezel.  My original plan was to paint the back of the perspex with black paint, but, I had a change of plan.  As this seemed a little permanent. If I changed my mind for a printed design, I would need new perspex cut. I decided to experiment with suger paper.  I raided my daughters craft box and found some red paper (I was looking for black).  Once all cut and sellotaped (true bodger) i was surprised how professional it looked. I may even keep the red design, what do you think ?  photos below. 

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Here is the finished design.

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That's my arcade machine built! phew.  I still have the base to paint and fit a door on the front, but that's something for later in the year.  Cropped banner design by angel88888 below.

Arcade Marquee

#arcade #gaming

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