I'm going to do a small run of speaker panel decals for Metallica themed after the roadcase design. These are obviously meant for the Roadcase Premiums (new or old style), but they'll fit fine on any game if you just dig the look. I have a couple friends I'm doing these for, figured I'd see if anyone else wanted them. This is original art, no assets from Stern or Metallica used.

I don't have these printed yet! I'm just looking for pre-orders so I can figure out roughly how many I should make, this might be a one-time thing. I'll order a test print to make sure they fit, I can post pics of that when I get it.

Since this is a niche item and I just don't have the time or energy to manage splitting orders for the two backbox styles (wooden speaker panel, new metal speaker panel) every order will just come with both. Split it with a buddy, give one away at league, or just toss the extra one in a drawer.

I might include some other goodies, there's room to print more decals inside the DMD and speaker holes, so I'll try and include a couple surprises.

Price isn't set yet, but should be in the $50 range at most, shipped in the US. Might be more for international.

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If you're interested in a set of these please sign up here, pre-order interest only, no money required:

http://goo.gl/forms/9ZdqZNP7To

Each order will come with both decals

(Mods, I tried to make this a market post, but it wouldn't let me post an ad for a mod, kept asking for my game condition, which of course I couldn't enter, there is no game for sale. Tried several times. Might be a bug. This is just an interest check, not a sale thread yet, so hopefully okay.)

Maybe. I'm not actually a big fan of wooden speaker panel decals. I did this for a friend who has the new metal backbox, and then did the wooden one so that centerflank could get hooked up. So I was motivated since it was a personal project for friends.

No idea how many Roadcase games are out there, or if people will want this on another style of Metallica, but as long as I'm doing them figured I'd offer.

I have an LE, I can look at that, but I dunno, might be too much gravestone with the bottom of the backglass covered in them.

Honestly though I don't have a ton of time for side mods these days. I finished this up with a little lull in Alien work, wanted to hook my friends up with it. The motivation was this last run of Roadcase games, no one likes the decal on the speaker panel, it doesn't match the cabinet at all. So this was to fix that, and I did a wooden one while I was at it because it didn't take long to modify it to fit that too.

I think this would probably look cool on any version of Metallica, but it's meant for the Roadcase, there aren't a ton of them, and so I suspect this will be a one-time niche thing. Have to see if there's any interest.

The wooden panels just aren't the best canvas for decals. The coolest ones I've seen are what Matt from Back Alley did for POTC.

The new metal panels Stern is doing are way better for decals, nice and flat.

Derp, so it doesn't, must have accidentally shifted it when I was preparing the screen image.

I can already tell this is going to be a very limited one-time deal, response is pretty low. Which is fine, this was a personal project with a niche application.

People like you are the reason this was worth it even if I only end up making 5.

Nope, just a decal. That magnet idea is smart though.

Yeah, the Pingraffix guys are doing that. I think it's a smart idea, it's not something I'd try to look into for like 5 decals though. Not worth the time and effort and expense, this is a very small project for a handful of people.

Well you still have to fix the translite, but I can't help with that.

Hey Joe, we should talk.

Heh, no question that the Roadcase machine needs it, the stock photo translite compared to the Dirty Donny ones is bleh. I won't be doing anything with Metallica branding on it though, so really not much chance of doing a translite.

Best bet is to get a Pro or Monsters translite from Stern still.

That magnetic sheet material is just short of being wide enough to work, at 24" it won't cover the whole speaker panel. Just FYI. So even if you stuck a decal to it, and carefully cut really clean round holes and the DMD hole, it still wouldn't work, you'd need something a couple inches wider. Or you'd have to splice two pieces, which could work with the decal I guess.

Also, I think this is probably obvious, but just to be certain the magnetic stuff would only work on the new style games Stern is doing, the original Metallica run has wooden speaker panels, nothing for a magnet to stick to.

I'll talk with Joe, maybe we can make the magnetic style available.

Wondered about those PMs, no problem, emailing you.

You have the new style one, with the new backbox that first started with Star Trek. It has a metal speaker panel instead of wood.

The old ones were black as you noted, and Stern hasn't updated their website. So only people who bought the latest run of Roadcase Premiums have that new decal. No offense to your awesome game, but that skittles colored decal looks weirdly out of place with the Roadcase cabinet, and that's why I made this decal, to fix that.

I only added the wood version to make centerflank happy.

So here's the good news: Joe from Pingraffix is going to sell these for me. That's good for everyone. You can get his new clever magnet style if you want. And honestly I was going to do just one run and then stop making them, I don't have the time to support this over the long haul. He has a company that does this sort of thing every day, and can keep it in stock for you.

I'll work it out with him, and I'll send an email to everyone on my list to a link on his site when it's ready, so feel free to keep signing up, you'll still get communication from me with a buying link.

Do it! People in the past haven't seemed to have trouble getting them. It's the Monsters one that's a pain to acquire.

Almost thumbs downed you for cropping the hammer out of that photo!

Quick and dirty chop of the photo above with the new decal:

roadcase-chop.jpg

I mean, it's not out of the question, I own a METLE myself. I haven't honestly come up with an idea that I liked enough to want on my personal game, so it hasn't happened.

My next Metallica mod, if I ever finish the damn thing, will work on all games.

I won't share what it is, but, anyone who wants to visit me personally can play test it. Come on out!

No worries.

Do you have a Roadcase Premium? Honestly it was only truly designed for people who do.

Very subtle.

Not in the cards, but nice try!

I'll try and get the files for this over to Joe today.