Sounds like the cream application is the way to go, thanks for the heads up.
did you have tape anything up like the clear part or will it be okay to brush it all over?
I just make sure I try to avoid the clear plastic and labels. If some gets on, itāll be fine.
I posted this over in the Official Arcade Stick Art Thread and electricgrave suggested that I might get more answers over here, my original post:
Artwork here (wouldnāt let me embed on here for some reason?), this is just a screenshot of the print ready PDF, so isnāt high enough resolution for printing and I still need to tweak the blues of the logos as they didnāt look quite right after having a proof printed.
Well thatāll work. Thanks! You can embed images as long as the URL for that image has a file extension at the end. Just paste the URL here within a [āimgā] and a [ā/imgā] (no quotes).
I plan to use Game On Grafx for my Virtua Stick printing needs. They apparently have something similar to the original textured laminate, and their print quality is very good.
Yeah, I tried that, but just got a broken link, thought it might be a permissions thing for low post counts or something. Youād think something that simple would easy for a Web Developerā¦ Oh well.
Iām in the UK, so hopefully shipping wonāt be too bad from that place. I had a look at their site earlier and it seems that they offer quite a few different services and materials, do you know what the material/laminate is called that you mentioned?
Also, I wasnāt sure whether to add the cutouts and external shape to the artwork, to have it cut during the printing process, or whether to stick with the shape I have and then make the cuts once itās stuck on with a craft knife. Especially as the buttons are now wider than the original artwork by a few mm.
Iām not looking forward to mounting the stick first and then trying to line up the artwork, would be much easier if the artwork went on first as a flat surface, but then I wouldnāt be in the situation in the first place if that were an option!
You can always disassemble the stick so that you only have the housing installed (with the shaft and pivot removed) so that you have a flat top-surface to work with.
Hmm, I didnāt even consider that. Presumably thatās easy enough to do, as well as put back together afterwards?
I should say that this is my first venture into modding a stick, Iāve actually come full circle as this thread helped me out few months ago when was looking into how to do it. 
Yeah, itās just one E-clip that holds the majority of the shaft (and attached components) together.
Awesome. Well thatāll certainly make it a lot easier.
Soā¦ how does this work when weāre in winter & have no sunlight?
Not an issue for me 
ā¦and yet another project lurks itās ugly headā¦itās gonna be a difficult one as the previous owner went all kinds of crazy with spray paint and then decided to strip it but quit half way and gave it to me for free!..weāll see what I can do.
The case is empty, no PCB, no top start button, no turbo switches and no turbo slide. Iāll either fill in the spaces or get creative with some hardware, weāll see how it transpires. In the mean time if anyone has any ideas or advice that would be great.
The stick in there itās a LS33 from a Blast City CP, it fits like a glove so thatās what Iāll be using for this project.
In the meantime I have worked a repro for the CPO, I have a second Virtua Stick complete that needs a new CPO and some whitening to the case.
ā¦patience is a virtua.
THis one here is the one Iāll be replacing the CPO and doing the whitening to.
UV lamp works.
Great work! I also worked on a repro CPO, maybe we should trade files as to confirm measurements
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@electricgrave did you guys confirm measurements between both of your repro panel files?
Not yet unfortunately.
Damnā¦ and @JFK1980 isnāt checking private messages. Ugh. Iām getting to a point where Iām just going to send these panels to Aaron at allfightsticks to get gray powder coated.