Diy Arcade Marquee Light Box

Gather your other materials.

Diy arcade marquee light box. 1 1 2 wood screws. Now so theres no overlap cut the excess paper of as shown. The lightbox is basically a five sided box with an additional pair of curved outer sides. If you have a color printer you can even print your own marquee.

The front is replaced by a piece of clear acrylic with a marquee adhered to it and lit from behind with lights. Then cut the plexy to size. Use the equations to calculate the dimensions of the wooden sides. This will be.

Cut the box parts. And cut of the white border or the newly printed out pictures. Cut down the pine as accurately as possible. I went ahead and cut a 45 degree bevel for the french cleat.

With the necessary tools and materials at the ready it s time to start piecing together this creative take on a marquee lightbox. Pine board 6 x 3 5 x 3 4 1 8 mdf medium density fiberboard gorilla glue. Measure your marquee and plug the width for x and height for y. Now place the paper on top of the plexy glass and mark where to cut it so its the same size as the paper.

Led arcade marquee lightbox step 1. New arcade marquees can be purchased from several online stores and original marquees can be purchased on sites like ebay. My marquee was the same width as my router bit 3 16 so i widened the channel a bit for a looser fit. Now lay one piece over the other align the one where the other ends.

In each of the 4 sides route an 1 8 channel a 1 4 into the board. Cut the french cleat. The first step in creating the lightbox was to rip a 4 x 2 piece of 3 4 mdf to the correct.