Moon Patrol Restoration

[Phetishboy]

Well it's taken me a while to get to this one. Since I have finally finished the endless bondoing and sanding and have graduated to paint, I thought I would post progress pics. I have a long way to go, but I was so happy when I finally saw paint on the cab I figured it was time to snap pics and start the thread.

Before. The bondoing was intense, as all 4 bottom corners had to be rebuilt. You can see the nice black band someone painted at the bottom.

The front had a quarter inch sheet of plywood glued, screwed and laminated over the lower coin door. You can see it half ripped off here. This took nearly 2 days to carefully remove itself:

The graphic looks OK from a distance, but the paint was flaking off horribly:

Corners rebuilt, cabinet sanded. Time for primer and first coat of black:

 

[Phetishboy]

First coat of 'Infinity Pool Blue' (color matched by Sherwin-Williams in their 'All Surface Oil Enamel'):

 

[mhanlen1]

Wow those corners are a super sharp 90, are they not? Imagine for a minute that you had a nice open air surface to work, but it was a leaky carport, so at night you had to move the cab up a ramp and into a house after your bondo work. Imagine it was a tall Atari cab, and that it was inevitable that you'd bump the corners and fuck up your hard work. That's my situation, and it has caused me to not be so worried about how perfect my corners are. I'd love perfect corners, but it's really hard to keep them perfect when you have to move the cabinet daily by yourself.

 

[Phetishboy]

Wow those corners are a super sharp 90, are they not? Imagine for a minute that you had a nice open air surface to work, but it was a leaky carport, so at night you had to move the cab up a ramp and into a house after your bondo work. Imagine it was a tall Atari cab, and that it was inevitable that you'd bump the corners and fuck up your hard work. That's my situation, and it has caused me to not be so worried about how perfect my corners are. I'd love perfect corners, but it's really hard to keep them perfect when you have to move the cabinet daily by yourself.

That sounds horrible. After all my bondoing and sanding, I still had to get it up onto those 6x8's without fucking up a rebuilt corner, or the bottom, or my ballsack.

 

[mhanlen1]

Yeah ideally you need to move it as little as possible after you bondo it, to avoid undoing all the hard work.

It was a sight yesterday. My gameroom is on the second floor, and I wanted to get my Asteroids upstairs. My girlfriend was gone, so I decided to man it up and get it upstairs by myself. The stairs are carpeted so I slid it on it's side up the stairs, and when I got to the top I realized that the corner was too sharp for me to turn it without turning it up on its head. After about 20 minuts of it balancing on the top of the stairs, and gouging the fuck out of the walls, I got it flipped on it's bacl and then tipped it on it's top, and then got it in the game room. It's amazing I didn't hurt myself or bust up my cab. The only way I was able to do this was because it was missing the monitor, CP, back door, and coin door.

After doing this I promptly got some paint and joint compound and patched the walls before my girlfriend got home. It's idiocy at it's finest.

 

[orion3311]

Did you save the little trademark sticker????

 

[Phetishboy]

Did you save the little trademark sticker????

I believe reproes come with prOk's stencils.

 

[metahugh]

Coming along nicely Phet! This is great inspiration for my eventual restore.

 

[MIKE96]

looks good, can't to see the final result

 

[MilitiaMan]

Looking great ... can't wait to see the finished product!

Steve
MM

 

[Phetishboy]

One side of blue done. This was my favorite stencil reveal to date. What awesome artwork! Now to get the other side done and start the yellow. Man I love Moon Patrol.

 

[RedWarrior80]

Looks great.....I don't think I ever actually played the arcade version but the atari 2600 version of this game was one of my all time favorites!

 

[Jedidentist]

A lot of hard work now paying off! Lookin' good!

 

[Braido]

Did you spray the stenciled paint?

 

[Phetishboy]

Did you spray the stenciled paint?

Yes I did.

 

[Braido]

Yes I did.

You did an exellent job, it looks really great.

 

[Phetishboy]

You did an exellent job, it looks really great.

Thank you. I cannot wait to get the yellow on this bitch. Then we'll really see what's what.

 

[ArcRevival]

It looks good but why did you switch from rolling to spraying ? Just curious.

 

[Phetishboy]

It looks good but why did you switch from rolling to spraying ? Just curious.

Because it just worked out that way this time. I have successfully rolled and sprayed stencils, and I really don't have preference.

 

[ArcRevival]

Because it just worked out that way this time. I have successfully rolled and sprayed stencils, and I really don't have preference.

Swing both ways do ya