How to Make a Vintage Arcade Marquee

by slimguy379

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Intro: How to Make a Vintage Arcade Marquee

to go along with my other tutorials I posted this so others could build my other idea!
things needed are:
a computer with Microsoft publisher
regular sized paper
a printer
x-acto knife
tape (has to be scotch!!)
and a sheet of plexy glass

STEP 1: Game

1st pick your marquee, either you can google it or you can go to:
http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/marquees/
this where I got mine.
now copy it, open publisher, and paste. my marquee is 7" in width and the height will be what ever. when satisfied print it out.

STEP 2: Construction

gather your other materials. and cut of the white border or the newly printed out pictures. now lay one piece over the other align the one where the other ends. now so theres no overlap, cut the excess paper of (as shown). now place the paper on top of the plexy glass and mark where to cut it so its the same size as the paper. then cut the plexy to size.

STEP 3: End

now take the paper pieces and place them over top of the plexy an tape the corners down. then tape the two piece down where one ends and the other begins. and bam your done now you can go on and read / build my other tutorials.

31 Comments

rap-sheet 8 years ago

Errr...why not get a printable sheet that is the length you need instead of joining individual pieces? Kind of a crude way to do it.

Symphony1125 13 years ago

What did you use to cut the plexi glass with?

red-king 13 years ago

If I just so happened to want to make a gauntlet marquee, how would I go about cutting out/whatever it is that i actually have to do the place where the speakers go?

red-king 13 years ago

http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/gauntlet/images/gauntlettop.jpg

xbox72012345 13 years ago

Use scribus, its a free substitue for publisher

Instructi-Guy 15 years ago

<<<<<<<<<<<< Yeah Galaga Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (notice galaga starship) GALAGA FTW!!!!!!!

scott! 14 years ago

I wanna make this, but I don't have Publisher (I have Windows XP), and I've tried word, but it won't have it split into 2 pages! what can I do?

slimguy379 14 years ago

idk there might be some freeware programs. ik GIMP might work for your needs

scott! 14 years ago

I have GIMP, but I barely use it, can u please exlplain? sorry for my ignorance!

slimguy379 14 years ago

im useless to explainhow to use GIMP fore i never use it myslef. sooo sorry

scott! 14 years ago

ohh, ok, thanks anyway, Ill try to figure it out

R4Man18 15 years ago

they make large sheets of paper that any printer can print on so you wont have to make this with 2 or 3 sheets.

slimguy379 15 years ago

but again... this is supposed to be an easy non major "out of the ordinary" project. so YES you can do the above but for some who doesn't want to buy a WHOLE package for 1 lowsey piece of paper.. be my guest.

R4Man18 15 years ago

you can get a sheet at kinkos for free so HAH I win.

slimguy379 15 years ago

well good ta know... thanks

emopants92 15 years ago

What if you dont have publisher? how do you print it the way you did. I have photoshop cs3 but cant figure out how to print it on 2 sheets

slimguy379 15 years ago

use word unless you're running linux...

emopants92 15 years ago

yes I have windows but dont have word and tried it in word perfect and office org and it didnt work in either
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