What painted cabs had silkscreening?

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Games like Satan's hollow. Yellow and white are easy to make vinyl stencils, black is impossible. Zooker may be another, pac was too, but not impossible to make stencils for.

So what games are impossible/nightmarish to make a stencil for?
 
A lot of the classic Bally games seem to be a mix of silk screening and stenciling........Pac-Man, Satan's Hollow, BurgerTime, Ms. Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man.....all the "colors" were stenciled, then the black was silk screened on top.

Edward
 
Yes.. I know someone who may be able to have large silkscreens made locally. Be cool to make some Satan's hollow cabs painted w/art on them, since I just got a Satan's hollow to copy.
 
Looks like a decal in the pic, but it's not...

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i had my space zap art done specialy in reusable mylar,the results although not perfect were still very acceptable.lets put it this way the cab was flaking and had vertical lines running up the ply where delamination had set in.the work i did breathed life into the old lady.
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Wouldn't this also include all of the Atari classics? Dig Dug, Crystal Castles, Centipede, Millipede, Black Widow, Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Lunar Lander, etc...
 
Those were screened on vinyl...

I've been wondering about their process with that. Was the vinyl printed then applied or the other way around? I've noticed that my two atari cabs are constructed so that no nails or staples are used on the "art" side of the wood. I'd also make them easier to print if the vinyl was already applied versus printing and racking the huge sheets.

Anybody know how they printed the atari stuff back then?

Chris
 
I've been wondering about their process with that. Was the vinyl printed then applied or the other way around? I've noticed that my two atari cabs are constructed so that no nails or staples are used on the "art" side of the wood. I'd also make them easier to print if the vinyl was already applied versus printing and racking the huge sheets.

Anybody know how they printed the atari stuff back then?

Chris

The vinyl was already laminated to the particle board and was probably in 4' by 8' sheets. The cabinet parts were cut that way. The art was screened directly onto the vinyl laminated particle board panel, but I'd guess that they were screened before cutting, giving room for registration tic marks.

Atari cabinets were typically built with 3/4" blocking strips inside, all held together with glue and narrow crown (about 3/16" width) staples. Some of the glue joints come apart, since it was a wood to vinyl face joint.
 
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