Panel cutout and nearing the end of parts acquisition

The last arcade buttons arrived, so I'm at the end of shipments coming in for now at least.  I think I have most everything I'm going to need except for a power supply, now that I also picked up uncolored translucent flexible cutting boards.  There aren't a huge number of places around here that carry them -Target has some from Farberware that might work, two clear and two black a four pack for $5.99.  Better yet, I found two large clear ones at the Container Store for $2.99.  I'll only need one, even if I double them up for better diffusion.

The round arcade buttons are all slightly smaller than I was anticipating for the central portion for which I need to drill through the panel (the dimensions on the eBay description weren't clear).  As a result, my layouts are a little off - but I can still use the center mark for each drilling point - so I went ahead and used them as is.

So now it was time to start cutting the panels out.  I picked up a 2'x4' piece of 1/4" MDF at Menards for about $5.60.  It turns out that they were a little shy of 2' by about 1/8".  Since my layout calls for 2'x3' finished size and the saw kerf would take more out of the boards, I was going to end up with smaller than 6" heights on each panel unless I bought another sheet of MDF.  But there is nothing critical about these dimensions, so I slightly undersized each panel.

To cut the boards, the easiest and most accurate thing to do would be to use a table saw.  I don't have one, but I do have a bandsaw - not a fantastic one, just a small 9" table top one, but it would suffice for cutting through thin MDF.  So if you don't have a table saw, don't let that discourage you - there are other methods you can use.  You could even use a simple jigsaw and a straight edge, but the setup for each cut would get to be tedious.  With a bandsaw, at least, the kerf from the blade is pretty small, so each panel ended up only marginally shorter than 6".  When the panels were cut out, I then used the reverse-printed labels and glued them to the panels with a spray adhesive.  I haven't adhered the labels for the central panels yet, though, because I forgot to reverse print those.  I'll get them tomorrow.