A special thank you to Rich

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One of my first purchases from ThisOldGame was sideart for one of my projects a while back. We hit our first 70's beautiful day here in Ohio and I had time to actually get the cabinet outside and into the sun for some work. And I just wanted to give a big ol' shout out to Rich for such awesome sideart. Thanks a bunch Rich. I am very happy with this work.
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+1 zillion. Rich's work graces my Burger Time from top to bottom. It gleams. He is truly a repro hero.
 
LOOKS GREAT! Glad someone actually installed it! I've been waiting for my sample and cannot wait to see how the retouching turned out! From the pictures it looks like they turned out better than Ice Cold Beer!
 
Yea DP, that is a fantastic looking cabinet too thanks to you. I wouldn't mind doing the same thing with my Armor Attack, but I am already looking forward to a genuine DPTwiz Eliminator 4p cabinet this spring.
 
Looks great! Nice to see a few other members on here from central Ohio. I'm hoping to find some time this weekend to get outside and work on a game myself. As luck would have it, we get a nice weather this weekend but its during the first weekend of March Madness. :-(

BTW, I just looked at your VAP profile....you have a nice collection of games!
 
One of my first purchases from ThisOldGame was sideart for one of my projects a while back. We hit our first 70's beautiful day here in Ohio and I had time to actually get the cabinet outside and into the sun for some work. And I just wanted to give a big ol' shout out to Rich for such awesome sideart. Thanks a bunch Rich. I am very happy with this work.
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Yes who are you and why haven't we met? BTW nice cab and a great collection of games!. :D
 
wow that looks great! I think thats the first pic Ive seen installed.
Another thanks and round of applause to Audiomidiman, Jeff Rothe, and others who contributed and helped me make this happen.

Hope the next project I do for Zinfer turns out just as nice ;)
 
Yes, after this experience, it's a real pleasure installing anything you put out Rich. While installing it was a little hair raising and I was sweating bullets, the end result is nothing short of stunning.
Too many projects, not enough room to work..or even walk.
One day I'll have something presentable to have guests over. Like a family and friends private arcade.
As it is, it's a house and garage chalk-full of about 36 cabinets with another 10 in a storage unit. Half of those 36 are in the garage which makes it nigh on impossible to get anything done quickly. Just getting a stick of lumber outside is a real chore, which is about the only place I can work on a project anymore.
But then I'm not saying anything new that noone else here hasn't experienced.
While there is one advantage to not being married in that noone tells me, 'Honey that is it. No more.', I still have a sister that watches hoarders and is looking for an intervention. :D
 
Rich has never done anything for me. Well, except my Gorf, Mappy, Star Castle, Space Invaders, Kick, Star Wars, Donkey Kong, 2 dozen t-shirts, Burgertime, Asteroids Deluxe, and too many more to count.

On second thought...Rich is good people! :D



And in regards to the original post - That Star Castle looks great!
 
DPTwiz's cabinet work is really spiffy. He does real quality work. The artwork by Rich really does set it off doesn't it? I have yet to pay Bill Boucher for his incredible work at getting the CCPU back up and purring. Hoping not alot of monitor problems. I recall the nightmare of rebuilding a Cine monitor in my Armor Attack. Probably have to run through that all over again. Prolly a hundred bucks just in components from Digikey.
 
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That was all done. White melamine. DP I believe used a black laminate on the insides. The only thing I had to do was throw on some T-molding. That was it.

Are the sides white melamine or did you paint them? How about the black areas?
 
That was all done. White melamine. DP I believe used a black laminate on the insides. The only thing I had to do was throw on some T-molding. That was it.

Yep..now that Brett can do the outside and inside in melamine to match the original colors..makes cabinet swaps a snap...with no painting and prep its so much quicker...than the alternative of taping off the outside to paint the inside...etc...etc..and in most cases the originals were not painted anyway but done like Brett is doing them now.
 
That is so f'd up too, because just today I was thinking, man all this beautiful weather, I should remove the top from Gyruss and also cut a new backdoor. But, then I would have to prime and paint them....but if I used black melamine..but I've never done that, it's slippery and it looks wierd with slightly maybe not 100% straight cuts. Maybe if I just called DP up and had him cut me a set....
But wait, I can do it for less than $20 in material..but it's a pain in the ass to paint...
Lordy---DP could seriously make me a lazy man.

Yep..now that Brett can do the outside and inside in melamine to match the original colors..makes cabinet swaps a snap...with no painting and prep its so much quicker...than the alternative of taping off the outside to paint the inside...etc...etc..and in most cases the originals were not painted anyway but done like Brett is doing them now.
 
That is so f'd up too, because just today I was thinking, man all this beautiful weather, I should remove the top from Gyruss and also cut a new backdoor. But, then I would have to prime and paint them....but if I used black melamine..but I've never done that, it's slippery and it looks wierd with slightly maybe not 100% straight cuts. Maybe if I just called DP up and had him cut me a set....
But wait, I can do it for less than $20 in material..but it's a pain in the ass to paint...
Lordy---DP could seriously make me a lazy man.

He has already done it to me in regards to painting stuff..if the cab was original melamine style finish...I'm having Brett do it...still kicking myself that the first Agent X/Crystal Castles style cab I had him do was in Birch which is great cause its smooth and light as hell but if I had him do it in melamine like he has since ...I would basically need no prep for art installation and no painting on inside...instead I'll have to prime and paint that one...:mad:
 
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