Custom CP Overlay Showcase

[NFGx]

Forgive me if this has already been done, I couldn't find anything in my brief search.

I am going to build my own 1P Astro City panel. There aren't many 1P designs out there, so I figured maybe a gallery of the designs we've made or seen might be helpful, for inspiration or just showing off.

Here's a 2P design I had printed recently, but haven't yet installed. It's a dark blue theme, on which I will install a set of Seimitsu KEIKOU (fluorescent) buttons and knobs. I hope it just POPS. ^__^

Whatta you got?

 

[Hackcell]

This design looks insane!!! I as thinking in take a negative color image of my second blast and paint it based on that.

 

[NFGx]

Here's the 1P design I've been stuck on for a few weeks. It fell together tonight fairly well.

 

[NFGx]

And two more revisions of that. I think the last one, with the colour matched Astro City block, is the one I'll go with.

 

[Kidkaos]

Forgive me if this has already been done, I couldn't find anything in my brief search.

I am going to build my own 1P Astro City panel. There aren't many 1P designs out there, so I figured maybe a gallery of the designs we've made or seen might be helpful, for inspiration or just showing off.

Here's a 2P design I had printed recently, but haven't yet installed. It's a dark blue theme, on which I will install a set of Seimitsu KEIKOU (fluorescent) buttons and knobs. I hope it just POPS. ^__^

Whatta you got?

This is bad ass!

 

[NFGx]

I wanted to try my hand at a more candy-like pop style. It's basically the same layout recoloured. I like it, but I can't say the appreciation is universal. ^__^;

Also added a ￥１００ label just for fun.

 

[mmmmaerk]

These are cool. I might try to design one just for fun. Do you use a template?

 

[NFGx]

Here's one you can use:

https://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/Sega-CP-Template.svg

It's just a background and outline. It's a vector, so it'll scale to any size (I use Inkscape for working with lines, but there are several options).

 

[NFGx]

I finally finished restoring the panel that came with my cab. Got the rust off, primed and painted it, and then threw on the overlay and installed the KEIKOU parts.

It looks fucking sweet and now I really need to get the rest of the cab done!

It's hard to capture the fluorescent effect, it looks so much better in person, the camera doesn't do it justice.

 

[RayBullty]

Very nice job. I like it so much

 

[NFGx]

I've been iterating on the panel designs for a while and I've done a couple I kinda like. First, the frosty version, and then the one I like most of all the ones I've done so far.

It was hard to find colours that really popped, but also didn't suck. I'm super happy with these green highlights for the buttons.

Now to think carefully about what colour buttons I want in there. ^__^

 

[NFGx]

Still messing with this. My main criteria for a panel design is avoiding re-used artwork and making something that looks like it might actually have come from Sega. The problem is I'm not much of an artist, so this makes it difficult to create something that doesn't suck.

Anyway today I looked at my Astro cab and noticed that it was all white but the panel, so I wondered how a mostly white panel would look, and ended up tweaking the pop-candy from earlier in the thread.

 

[MFT_Man]

They look great .

 

[mSlider]

This is my custom Naomi Universal Cab design CPO, I call it Sunset:

And this is my custom MVS CPO for the NUC when I play with MVS:

The colors are a bit saturated because I exported the images directly from CMYK designs.

 

[NFGx]

This is my custom Naomi Universal Cab design CPO, I call it Sunset:

Wow, these are great! I really dig the black outside edge.

 

[mmmmaerk]

How are these applied to the panel? Do you print them yourself?

 

[mSlider]

How are these applied to the panel? Do you print them yourself?

In my case, I go to a print shop next to my house and ask them to print it on adhesive vinyl (they also die-cut it according to my design). I think they use a lacquer to prevent the ink from washing off with solvents, UV rays or scratches.
I had to do several tests until I found the color I wanted, since I have no experience with CMYK technology and it took me a few attempts to match the colors I had designed on screen with the design printed on the printing machine.

 

[NFGx]

I get mine printed by Noodleshirt, who is well known in Australia.