What's on your walls?

[deadmeat13]

A couple years ago, I was living by myself and had designated a room to be my game/collection room. I actually started with the walls. But before I could do much with it, my dad was getting a divorce and needed a place to live, so now that room is his computer room and my bedroom is my game room. No pics of that, the only thing I have on the wall is a Playstation 3 sign I bought from a game store. But I did finish the walls in the "now" computer room. Its a floor to ceiling collage. Took about 3 months to do...

Oh, yes the collage is still up.

Hell yeah Dying Fetus!

 

[IvanTT]

Ivan, you need a warlords, or a joust! Seriously, cool theme.

Yeah I know but I'm out of space. Plus the theme is just temporary. When I finally start on the new arcade/livingroom this winter it will be themed like a space ship loading bay but very 30's/40's machine age with a sprinkling of Paolo Parente's "Dust" and SF3D. I want it to look kinda like a U-boat in space with a "control room" for playing and storing board and minatures games, a conversation area with seating, a place to display all my 1/6th scale WW2 RC tanks and the arcade of course.

I really like Empires BTW

 

[OldTymeToys]

I have begun a "Comic Wall" and of course my Steeler fatheads:

 

[Stuffmonger]

What you are describing does sound pretty similar to what I did on my walls.
The garage has 12' walls so there was still plenty of space above the games.
The ceiling has four 4' black light tubes and I used neon/fluorescent paints, sometimes acrylic sometimes spraycan.
I started with couple characters and just let the "scene" build around them for fill in. I still have enuff space to add plenty more tho.

Did you stencil that, or did you do it all by hand? I may have to requisition your help when I'm getting ready to paint my game room!

 

[trickman]

All of you, great job!!! Wow, this really inspires me to get working on the revamping of my arcade area. I'll post pics when it's done.

 

[Phetishboy]

 

[savit4l8r]

Paint .

 

[ComputerSpace]

Wow Empire!

How in the world did you get those game characters so perfect??!! Did you stencil them somehow or just mask them off and paint? You do awesome work.

Regards,
Tom

What you are describing does sound pretty similar to what I did on my walls.
The garage has 12' walls so there was still plenty of space above the games.
The ceiling has four 4' black light tubes and I used neon/fluorescent paints, sometimes acrylic sometimes spraycan.
I started with couple characters and just let the "scene" build around them for fill in. I still have enuff space to add plenty more tho.

 

[Phetishboy]

 

[ChaosJohn]

Paint.

Black paint, to be more specific.

Like 90% of the wall space in my arcade is covered by games, so there isn't a lot of room for posters and such. I guess I could put some above the games, but I prefer to keep the arcade pretty dark, so they'd be hard to see anyway.

 

[cspacefan]

I'd love to get a Wood Pixel board for my arcade but the thing is not very large.
http://www.woodpixel.com/
If the guy made a big version I would be all over that thing.

 

[Stuffmonger]

I'd love to get a Wood Pixel board for my arcade but the thing is not very large.
http://www.woodpixel.com/
If the guy made a big version I would be all over that thing.

Pretty cool idea, but I have a few issues with it.

A). That would be SUPER easy to make. All it is, is wood blocks stained with 3 different color stains with sort of a window frame to hold them all.

B). It would be heavy if you wanted it to be big. Also, I didn't see any adhesive or anything to hold the blocks in place, so if you bumped it, you'd have to redo the whole thing.

 

[pringlez]

Empire, that's amazing. May I ask how you did it? Also, Phet, that's really cool, too. How dud you do the stars/space murals?

 

[Spyridon]

Winner:

Awesome!

 

[Empire]

What I did was either draw or find an image of any 8-bit characters online. I'd then grid off the blocks/colors and transfer the square shapes with pencil on the wall. As long as all the blocks were the same size then it didn't matter what scale I used. Some characters use 2" squares and some use 6" etc. As long as the wall could fit them. I underestimated the total size of my 6 or 7 foot wide UFO when I started it and soon realized he would overlap my Berzerk robot. So instead of redrawing the whole thing I figure I would just let the two collide with pixel chunks missing and flying about. Once the linework is up I'd mask it off with painters tape and do one color section at a time. Fluorescent spray covers better but the over spray can get messy. Neon acrylic paint goes on very thin but is much neater to apply......usually. Once it's all dry I just slowly pull the tape and touch-up any edges as needed.

 

[Angry_Radish]

I started my tron-ish blacklight mural awhile back.
Started with the first picture and ended up with the 2nd:

 

[Tripredacus]

Wow! That's neat. Imagine that with game flyers! (or copies of game flyers)

I didn't have a wide range. I had a bunch of magazines (and picked up some fashion magazines if you can tell), so a lot of it is comics, sports, music or video game stuff. Also up are some real concert posters I had gotten when I was a promoter.

@ENDOFLINE: I love the Steve Caballero deck. I always wanted that one as a kid, but had to settle for a Back to the Future one. I still have an old one like that, its a McGill, only get to use is about twice a year.

 

[ENDOFLINE]

yes, love the caballero skate decks. actually anything powell prealta is my fav! i used to have a real nice og tony hawk board back in the day and sadly sold it @ a garage sale i still miss that board.

skate or die!

I didn't have a wide range. I had a bunch of magazines (and picked up some fashion magazines if you can tell), so a lot of it is comics, sports, music or video game stuff. Also up are some real concert posters I had gotten when I was a promoter.

@ENDOFLINE: I love the Steve Caballero deck. I always wanted that one as a kid, but had to settle for a Back to the Future one. I still have an old one like that, its a McGill, only get to use is about twice a year.

 

[khabbi]

Here's a Discs of Tron flyer I framed up (used 2 of them), I think it turned out great!

And my Tron poster under Blacklight (you can see the other blacklight posters in the reflection also)

 

[pringlez]

That looks really nice! I may paint the two walls in my room, to the left and right, with characters, and then save the front for posters/flyers/score-board/token collection.