Doing a run of painted/stenciled cabs..

[DPtwiz]

Comming sometime late January/February i and Klover Jpopson are going to do a run of stenciled/Painted cabs. Cabs will be new/cnc cut Birch and assembled, then Primed, Painted, Stenciled, and Clearcoated. Kind of looking at interest on these, yes, they are a bit pricey, but consider what stencils, paint, and supplies cost. We will do the most popular one first, then look at the others for a 2nd run. Here's the choices -

1 Burgertime
2 Pacman
3 Ms pacman

Chime in if your interested, looking at a run of 10 cabinets. thanks! Brett

 

[UnkulBuck]

can you give a rough idea of what a ms p cab would cost w/o shipping. I'm not looking to hold your feet to the fire over the price you give today, just a general guess.

 

[Deadly]

Brett - to give you an idea of "what's out there" and in case you weren;t aware take a gander here:
http://mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?action=url&page=prod/cabs/cMsPac.html

 

[UnkulBuck]

12-18 hundo American is a deal breaker on this end.

 

[DPtwiz]

duh! I forgot price! Assembled, painted/stenciled cabinet with new leg leveler hardware will be 550.00 Cabinets will be meant as a direct replacement to a factory cabinet. All openings, coin door opening etc... will match the factory specs. So, if you have a beat up, water damaged, or painted/coverted cabinet you will be able to swap all the hardware to the new cabinet. I will wrap and pallet these to ship for the cost of the packing materials. Just let me know what cabinet you like to see done first. I will have pics of a stenciled ms pac john is doing right now soon. Thanks, Brett

 

[Wundercade]

Can you add Galaga to that list as a semi-gloss black shipped ready for decals? Some people may then also order them for multicades.




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[kencinder]

!! $550 fully assembled with art, ready for hardware drop-in? If I needed one, I'd soooooooooo buy one. That's an awesome price!

 

[Wundercade]

Ahhh....I suspect that price won't stick once they start stenciling and speckling little blue dots.

 

[DPtwiz]

just pac has the blue dots right? I have to ask John about that one.. i know a toothbrush works good for that trick though. I can have any cab painted, John is working out prices. Straight paintjob is i beleive 100.00 2 tone jobs like nintendo's and Q*berts are 120.00

 

[Wundercade]

Yeah, just the Pac, and by the way....my hats off to you guys for the work you are doing. Your heart is definitely in it.



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[arcadejunkie]

i dont know how you are making any money vs your time on building and stenciling a pac or ms pac cab there is so much detail in one of those.

 

[DPtwiz]

lol we aren't making much money. I just love to build things, always have. If i was in it for the money, i wouldn't be eating lol i do ok with the day job, and this is just something i like to do. I hope to switch over to kitchen cabinetry some day, but for now i'm happy making arcade cabinets.

 

[jpopson]

making money

The problem that I see with this entire hobby is that there are too many people trying to figure out how to make money at it. For Brett and I both it is a hobby that is born from a love of classic arcade games. Now I am not saying that making money doing something you love is a bad thing, but that should not be the bottom line, you do it because you love it. I own a very successful restaurant/bar that is seasonal. This gives me the luxury of being mostly unemployed for the winters, so I like to keep my shop busy. I have a 2600 square foot workshop that I use only for arcade related stuff. I have a 60 inch vinyl plotter and access to a ton of other cool gadgets. As far as the paint goes, I can cover my costs pretty well with an order of 10 cabinets at these prices, plus have a little bit to cover the utilities at the shop. Also as far as the blue speckles on the Pac cabs, those will be left to the proud owners, cus I sure as hell am not going to do that. lol

 

[gatordad]

Love to see the ms pac, hell I might even take a road trip for one.

 

[chips4sle]

even my cheap ass would be in for one of the burgertimes

 

[DPtwiz]

Hey John, i still have a couple of those illegal firecrackers left over from the 4th, what if we put the blue paint in a balloon and taped one to it? see, i'm always thinkin...

 

[jpopson]

That might just work Brett. Set all 10 cabs up with a chain of firecrackers and blam--done in one step. WooHoooo!!!!

 

[DPtwiz]

lol someone on here did a gorf, and dipped a toothbrush in white paint. You put on a rubber glove, and flick the bristles, and it looks just like factory. Could make it an "option" at an additional charge, cause we would need to hang plastic loL!

 

[jpopson]

Its not like my shop floor does not see its fair share of paint. I just looked at it as a pain in the ass factor. $200.00 more to put blue specs on them Pacs!!! Then I will really be rolling in the dough!!

 

[DPtwiz]

"dont worry man.. my dad has a boss set of tools" lol