Aladdin's Castle - Construction Day 8

9/25/2005

Painting final colors.

I am envisioning a cabinet with a black, purple, reddish theme to go with my memories of Aladdin's Castle.  I'm pretty sure that the logo was in red and that the place was very dark with red and/or purple neon.  I was debating really whether or not to paint the cabinet sides purple or not.  I woke up today and decided to go get a quart of purple paint and give it a shot.

So I bought my purple paint and headed to the workshop.  Once I got there and cracked the can open I saw that the purple I had chosen was very intense.  It just didn't feel right.  So I decided to mix my own color by adding a bunch of my leftover black.  I wanted to dull the color down and I succeeded.

After saying "here goes nothing" I started to roll on the color.  After I had done both cabinet sides I was REALLY, REALLY happy.  Suddenly the cabinet looked very "arcadey" to me.  It started to look like a "real" cabinet.



The cabinet starts to look real to me.



Just to prove that I didn't photoshop my cabinet sides.  :)  No, but seriously, I wanted to make sure that I captured the color that I was using.  Funny, but on my camera and in my image browsing software, this color looks like striking pure blue.  It's not.  It's definitely purple.



I wasn't sure if I should have painted the door or not.  It might have been cool to leave it black and then surround the coin door with some sort of art.  Hmmm...



And the other side of the cabinet.

By the way, I have dark red t-molding that I will be using for this cabinet.  I intend the marquee and side art to be mostly purple, red, and possibly yellow or sand colored.  I've got to get to work on that art!