Repairing arcade panels... contact paper? Vinyl?

ShmengeTravel

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Again sorry for all the posts, I broke up a thread that had all these questions in it to benefit anyone else that had similar questions. As I sais in my other threads I just got a new SF2CE cabinet in the mail and it needs a ton of work. This thing, I'm guessing, was in a garage based on how beat up it is, and there's quite a large piece of wood missing from the lower right side of the machine. Is there anything I can do to repair it? And if there is, do you guys know of a place to buy contact paper to re-color the sides? Is there any place that sells really large contact paper? In the event I need to re-do some of the wood work on this thing, I'd have to take off the original contact paper but I don't know of any places that sell it as big as this machine (76" tall? 37" wide). ...or is it even contact paper? I know a lot of people use Vinyl when repairing cabinets, but I'm not sure if the machine came with contact paper or vinyl as I dont know the difference between the two.

Thanks in advance!
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chris1

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What color are you looking to make the machine..With the contact or vinyl paper?
 

ShmengeTravel

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Blue for everything but black for a part of the control panel. It's a dedicated SF2CE cab. It's blue, but like I said about the corner being chipped off. It's not a little chip either. :(
 

ambnib

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well what i would do if there is a large chunk missing out of the wood as you say, i would take some wood putty, the stuff i use ZAR latex wood putty, its about 4 bucks, and fill in those chips and discrepancies, over fill them so you can sand them down to the original level plane. Then ad some contact paper on it, you can get creative with the kind you use and then get some game graphics accordingly
 
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