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Florida Arcade and Pinball Collectors => Florida Arcade and Pinball Collectors => Topic started by: bjones on August 04, 2014, 09:53:11 PM
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One more game joins the fold! Takes forever one step at a time, but they get there :)
Thanks to Hamster and Mick for hooking me up with the machine, been gutted cleaned, full auto paint job and new artwork from Arcadeskin.com. Near perfect marquee and cpo, NOS sticks and buttons.
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looks great, cant wait to finally play this at Free Play, and such a difference from when we first picked it up :)
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Wicked game!
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Awesome! Now it will live on for more generations to play.
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Damn it, now I will have to dig mine out and start on it. Looks awesome.
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now i just need to stop spending time at all these pinball events, and get my but fixing some boards....
i am currently 7 deep :(
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now i just need to stop spending time at all these pinball events, and get my but fixing some boards....
i am currently 7 deep :(
5 more to go and you'll have a new record...no wait, wrong thread. 8)
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Great job, Brian, I love to see your restorations!! I wish I had the talent to restore all of mine like that! Will look good on display at Free play!! Looking forward to playing it, haven't seen one working in at least 20 years..
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Hell yes. I can't wait to play this. Looks beautiful Brian.
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Brian,
That seems really dark red, almost brown. Is that the camera making it look that way or is it really supposed to be that dark?
The reason I ask is because I also have one of these sitting in my garage and it was painted over black. But, I started to remove some of the black paint and the original red underneath is way brighter red than your photos.
I know how meticulous you are with your restoration work, so I assume you have the correct colors. Were these made in more than one shade of red?
Steve
MM
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It's the camera. The actual color is dead on. I have a local auto paint store that hand mixes paints. They used the original back door for matching and I literally had to be showed where the matched paint was on the door. My pic had no flash so maybe that is why it seems dark ?
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Was the original cabinet glossy?
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It's the camera. The actual color is dead on. I have a local auto paint store that hand mixes paints. They used the original back door for matching and I literally had to be showed where the matched paint was on the door. My pic had no flash so maybe that is why it seems dark ?
That is what I figured.
Can you hang onto those codes for me? I will need them in the not too distant future, unless you feel like painting my cabinet for me. :-P
Steve
MM
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Awesome! I've been wanting to play a dedicated for a while now.
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Looking good!
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Nice work! do you have any before pics of it?
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And answer my glossy question please. :)
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I got some pics from when we picked it up, before Brian worked his magic on the cabinet Ill just have to dig them out, and phil Im sure Brian replicated the same finish as the original ;D
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i highly doubt it was anywhere near "glossy", but that looks phenomenal, better than new, imho.
looks like brian applied an automotive clear to it, or that's how they mixed the paint.
(http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/stern/44215404.jpg)
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I think all automotive paints now need to be clearcoated and thats where the problem comes in. You have to put a additive in the clear to get a matte finish and it's tough to get the same results from one time until the next.
I agree...it looks great. I think all cabinets should be glossy now.
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you can spray single stage, or you can choose base+clear. it's up to the mixer with how he made the color, and up to the sprayer for the expected results. you could choose to spray a matte clearcoat as well.
for this game, i wouldn't have done a thing different. sometimes the result is better than new.
:)
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Klassic has it right. I chose a single stage. I'm ok with the gloss as it actually looks awesome in person and will of course dull down a bit with some rubbing compound but I don't want to do that :). It was really more about color than anything, the funky red tone that changes in varying light was not an easy match. The pic should show what I mean in normal light how the color changes.
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I bet we quit spraying single stage paint here 10 years ago. What still uses it, work trucks?
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The cabinet does look nice, Brian.
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This thread has me thinking about doing a color,clear,wet sand and buffed, glossy Qbert.
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you have to post that pic again, brian. it showed the color change nice in the lineup. :)
they still spray single stage on cars every day down here. :)
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Sorry stupid tapatalk posted it like 12 times so I deleted it. When I spray a pinball I do a clear on it just because of how you build up colors, but for a single color base coat it's just a ton fewer steps to get single stage.
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I saw it in person yesterday and it PURTY! Looks awesome!
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Looks really nice. 8)
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Great job as always Brian!
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looks great, one of the great classics!
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SUCKS!
That I don't own this one!! :-*
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Beautiful!! I need the side-art stickers for my TUT. I didn't see them listed on the website you referenced. Where did you find them? --Rich