Day 5 - 14th April

I had already designed the artwork for the cabinet using Adobe Illustrator and had submitted the design for the control panel and marquee to JLS Imaging for printing. JLS Imaging are an Ebay store specializing in vinyl printing and were able to produce the graphics required and post them to me for less than £30.

The graphics arrived on the Saturday morning and when I unrolled them from the tube I have to say I could not have been happier with the results:

I had decided upon a two tone design for the control panel with the player one area yellow and the player two side in blue. I would also create a frontend theme in the software using a similar colour scheme

As I now had the artwork in hand I decided to concentrate on the control panel for the weekend. I had found a few issues with the shape of the previous control panel and also some of the drilling was not very well finished. Due to this I decided to cut a new control panel on the Saturday morning and then set to work on applying the vinyl

The new Control Panel is cut, drilled and routed

The control panel vinyl is applied

Holes are carefully cut from the Vinyl using a craft knife