Several people know I've been involved in reproducing the pole position cockpit artwork due to having none on mine (was converted to Road Riot 4wd and couldn't recover the original art under the hideous gray paint - see attached photo).
There was a localarcade image for this artwork but it was in quite a poor state when I got a hold of it. Seems it was created from a photo and/or auto-traced and/or hand drawn. But objects were way off, colors were way off, dimensions and overall shapes were way off, etc.
So it took probably 50 hours of my own time working on the vector image based on photos of original artwork (thanks phet!) and also quite a bit of help from Rich/rikitiki (thanks Rich!). It also included a lot of test prints on my home printer, taping them together, and taping the massive matrix of pages to my cabinet to determine what adjustments to make to get it to fit right (and it didn't come very close initially). Finally the image was complete. It's not a dead on reproduction but it's pretty dang close and IMO no one would be able to tell the difference unless studying it against the original side by side.
Rich was awesome enough to volunteer to help me on this project. He solvent inkjet printed it. By the estimates he gave me it took about 9 hours to print the 5 pieces! Then he came over to my house and basically installed it for me, giving me an in person lesson on installing side art. I'm thankful for that because I've never done side art before and this would have been a difficult and daunting cabinet to start with.
The end result was just incredible and I couldn't be happier about it. My game has been transformed from a turd to a gem.
This weekend I took the game to the Seattle show and got a ton of compliments on it, and I really enjoyed seeing it get a ton of play.
I don't think Rich has worked out pricing yet, but if anyone is interested in getting this artwork please contact me or Rich. I'm happy just to have this on my own cabinet, but if it can help anyone else out I'm thrilled to be able to do so.
There was a localarcade image for this artwork but it was in quite a poor state when I got a hold of it. Seems it was created from a photo and/or auto-traced and/or hand drawn. But objects were way off, colors were way off, dimensions and overall shapes were way off, etc.
So it took probably 50 hours of my own time working on the vector image based on photos of original artwork (thanks phet!) and also quite a bit of help from Rich/rikitiki (thanks Rich!). It also included a lot of test prints on my home printer, taping them together, and taping the massive matrix of pages to my cabinet to determine what adjustments to make to get it to fit right (and it didn't come very close initially). Finally the image was complete. It's not a dead on reproduction but it's pretty dang close and IMO no one would be able to tell the difference unless studying it against the original side by side.
Rich was awesome enough to volunteer to help me on this project. He solvent inkjet printed it. By the estimates he gave me it took about 9 hours to print the 5 pieces! Then he came over to my house and basically installed it for me, giving me an in person lesson on installing side art. I'm thankful for that because I've never done side art before and this would have been a difficult and daunting cabinet to start with.
The end result was just incredible and I couldn't be happier about it. My game has been transformed from a turd to a gem.
This weekend I took the game to the Seattle show and got a ton of compliments on it, and I really enjoyed seeing it get a ton of play.
I don't think Rich has worked out pricing yet, but if anyone is interested in getting this artwork please contact me or Rich. I'm happy just to have this on my own cabinet, but if it can help anyone else out I'm thrilled to be able to do so.


