Stained Glass 
Marquee
(1/20/2003)
My mother does a lot of craft work with stained glass (check out her store at www.bethanddon.com - I bet she would make one for you if you send her the dimensions). I woke up one morning realizing that I aught to have her
make me a Mame marquee out of stained glass for my arcade cabinet. First I
tried drawing out a few designs. They looked really difficult to do because I
wasn't thinking about the fact that it's stained glass. I scoured the internet
for ideas, and found several dead links to
Jim's Robby Roto Mame Machine with a stained glass marquee. I used the
Wayback Machine to find an archived version of his page, and was
successful. I looked at his pictures and realized that he had a really simple
yet perfect design for a mame marquee right there. I emailed him, and he said
he didn't mind if I used his design (he also said that he had no idea his web
page still existed) .
I spoke to my mother about the idea, and she was excited about it, so I whipped
up the design.
When I searched through her glass collection, I realized that most of her glass
is made to be transparent. I couldn't find colors that would work well with a
fluorescent lamp behind it. My mother was looking to order some new glass
anyway, so I looked at some websites to find some I liked. Pictures on the
internet couldn't tell me how the different glasses would look with a bright
light behind it. My mother didn't really have to have her arm twisted for us to
all hop in the car and drive (5 hours each way) to the super-stained-glass
warehouse in Pennsylvania.
It was tough to find colors that would look good when backlit, but finally I
found them and I think they look great (item #'s from left to right: KOKOMO
979-31D, KOKOMO 979-622D, WISSMACH 976-51G):
Here's the finished product:
...and a shot of it in the cabinet:
Download the printable version of the pattern here.
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