Phoenix Arcade for all three for vinyl side and kick plate art and CPOs.
If ever stenciling Ms. Pac and/or Pac, @mneubey at arcadestencils.com
TOG is great too, you just run the risk of waiting an unreasonably long amount of time for pretty much the same quality Phoenix Arcade can give you and...
What I’ve found is the earlier runs of Bally Midway games were glass and then they caught on, like Galaga, got huge, then everything turned to plexi. My Galaga is a lower serial.
https://www.szabosarcades.com/products/arcade-1up-centipede-topper?_pos=7&_sid=38c7ac66c&_ss=r
I got an acrylic. He also has a lit-up option though I’m unsure of what that looks like. Highly recommend.
Perhaps further inspiration, maybe not, but I love toppers on anything, and Joe Szabo makes this topper for Arcade1UP Centipedes and I figured it’d actually go really perfectly with the cabaret and lo and behold I can’t see mine without it now.
And cosmetically that's a wrap! All that's left now is dial in the monitor and figure out a sync issue.
Not gonna lie this was hard. Really hard. With a pregnant wife, a toddler, and a baby, I'm stretched extra thin. I did what I could when I could and the setbacks with the routing and such...
Today I pulled the monitor from the cabinet and removed the existing 4600. The picture was fine enough when I first picked up the game and the seller was showing me but the caps were definitely 45 years old.
I had another 4600 I recapped I was keeping around as a spare for the Pac-Man in my...
Dude I can’t believe I just stenciled an arcade cabinet and it turned out this good! Is it perfect? No. Was it ever going to be? No. Just in awe though. I never thought I’d ever do it. And Pac-Man with its lines took a LONG, TEDIOUS time to peel black but finally both side panels and the kick...
Sneak peek of peeling off black…
We still have a ways to go on this side panel and there’s ever so slight tinnnny little things that honestly feel like it’s coming out the factory one of a kind like they all did.
Otherwise…DUDE IT’S LOOKING SO GOOD SO FAR. Stay tuned for the final cabinet art...
We're getting there now. Red is in the books. I'm loving the result, got the vinyl application down really well this time. A little chillier outside today so had to change times a bit but much the same as blue yesterday.
If you notice, you'll see in my pictures in progress I didn't realize I...