Breaking News: Joymonkey’s Ms. Pac-man Stencil files online at Local Arcade

Color me surpised. Now that it has been nearly seven months, for good reason I thought the collecting community may never have access to Paul Murphy’s (Joymonkey) Ms. Pac-man stencil files. But I was wrong. Today Paul put the Ms. Pac-man stencil files that he built using scanned art, traced and fabricated from scratch, online at Local Arcade.com.

Disclaimer: Remember, these Ms. Pac-man stencil files are only for those of you who already own a Ms. Pac-man cabinet that needs restoring. For you pirates out there who will take these files and use them for your own profit – Beware! You might just be the next PC Amusements and be at the receiving end of a Namco fueled, Normandy-like assault on your facilities.

What do I do with the Ms. Pac-man stencil PDF?

This Ms. Pac-man PDF artwork file is ready for production. The different stencil colors are separated into layers and your dimensions are noted. The artwork is 1/10th the scale, and the actual physical dimensions are included in the PDf as well. All you should have to do is hand this off to a print shop, tell them about the scale and to look for those dimensions, and they can make you a set of vinyl stencils, 9 total (three pieces of artwork, three colors each) for the side and kickplate of your Ms. Pac-man cabinet. Paul makes note in the Local Arcade description says the artwork file isn’t 100% accurate, but being an artist myself, I know that we are rarely satisfied with our own work. This Ms. Pac-man file is about as accurate of a stencil that has ever been made available to the public and rest assured, if there are any small inconsistencies, you probably won’t even be able to find them.

I would guess that this means that Paul is done with the Ms. Pac-man project and making stencils for your own cabinet is now in your own hands. But jeeze, make sure to thank Paul for what a resource he is, just shoot him an email thanking him and leave it at that. Paul has probably donated anywhere from 50-150 hours total between the Ms. Pac-man stencils project, and the Retro Blast website design alone, if not more. It would be a shame if people took advantage of his good will, so if you have some time to give some appreciation and can drop Paul a line that would be great.

Thanks again Paul!

Update: Late 2019
The links to source these stencils are no longer working. Localarcade.com has changed hands, and the Joymonkey website that eventually changed into CoinopArt.com doesn’t appear to have the Ms. Pac-man stencil files listed there either.

Kept the original link to localarcade.com for historical purposes.

Here are some similar arcade posts

• Stenciling a Ms. Pac-man – Part 8
• Ever seen a set of Ms. Pac-man Stencils?
• Ms. Pac-man Stencil File Missing Artwork?
• Scans of Ms. Pac-man Sideart
• Ms. Pac-man Kickplate Dimensions

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