Well, as I told you in the last post, I was not too happy with the color of the marquee once everything was installed. I knew it needed darkened up, so I adjusted the art and resent it to GameOnGrafix . They got it done and sent to me in record time and I put the new version in and turned on the lights…

Still too washed out. Better, but not what I was looking for. Then it occurred to me that in all the button lighting tests I did, the white led’s never looked very good (they washed out the orange too much), but orange led’s looked great! So how to get orange led’s in the marquee…or maybe, the led’s don’t need to be orange, just the light coming from them. I called a friend of mind who is in the sound and light business and asked if he had any orange film that they use to color stage lights. He did…

So I cut a piece of the film and taped it to the diffuser in the marquee box and installed everything back (including glass this time) and flipped the switch…

Beautiful!!!

And it looks good with room lights on too…

Onward and upward…