Rockola CPO Trace

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I began vectorizing a Rockola CPO that I had scanned a while back as I need to have an Eyes CPO printed for myself for an upcoming resto. Though the colors are right, I realized that this is a Rockola CPO for some trackball game? What CPO did I just vectorize, and how hard will it be to tweak this into an Eyes CPO?

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I would say that you could just fill in the track ball hole and call it good. It looks a lot like what is on the machine picture on KLOV. Actually, I would fill in all the holes (button and bolt holes). That way if you are off ever so little, you won't see the white on one side of a button or a bolt. Maybe a black "X" in the center of the hole like what was done on your Joust multi CPO.

Otherwise, the arrows look like they are in the right spot. I say what you have done looks really nice.
 
That's the correct overlay for Eyes. Rock-Ola's overlays had over-sized holes for the joystick, which was then covered by a metal plate.

The four holes that appear at the "diagonal" positions around the joystick are intended for the four corners of that metal plate.

You can see a decent picture of a similar control panel on KLOV's Warp Warp entry. Warp Warp uses the same "joystick mounted through a square metal plate" set up that Eyes uses, despite not being centered like Eyes.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10407

Kyle
 
Pleiades10 said:
That's the correct overlay for Eyes. Rock-Ola's overlays had over-sized holes for the joystick, which was then covered by a metal plate.

The four holes that appear at the "diagonal" positions around the joystick are intended for the four corners of that metal plate.

You can see a decent picture of a similar control panel on KLOV's Warp Warp entry. Warp Warp uses the same "joystick mounted through a square metal plate" set up that Eyes uses, despite not being centered like Eyes.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10407

Kyle
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Cool, thanks Kyle. So the 4 way arrows are correct then as well. The large hole was throwing me when I got done with it last night at midnight. Well then all I need is to tweak the Rockola logo a bit and this is ready to print. As to the button and bolt holes, I was just tracing the scan. I can always put small x's at the center of all the holes and remove the white circles.
 
I just happened to be watching this video related to the Kong Off. You can get a good view of the previously mentioned metal plate on a Rock-Ola Nibbler at the 3:42 mark (Richie even mentions it formerly being an Eyes control panel):

 
arcadeannex said:
I just happened to be watching this video related to the Kong Off. You can get a good view of the previously mentioned metal plate on a Rock-Ola Nibbler at the 3:42 mark (Richie even mentions it formerly being an Eyes control panel):
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Cool, thanks. Anyone looking for a Rockola Eyes CPO Repro? I'll be sending this file to Rich, along with my cigarette burnt original (for color-matching), for him to reproduce. I would assume if we get enough interest, this would be an easy one to screen, otherwise laminated inkjet would be the only other option.
 
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simpsons99 said:
Where these Rockola Cp just an overlay?

I have a thrundercade machine I would like too reconvert back too Eyes or Jump Bug .
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Yep, these where originally adhesive-backed overlays. They also look to have a pebble-textured laminate on them.
 
simpsons99 said:
where did you get your overlay from? I have not seen any places remaking this stuff
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Are you reading the thread correctly? I VECTORIZED this CPO from a scan of a NOS CPO that someone borrowed me last year. It is currently an Illustrator file on my computer. What you are seeing is a .jpg image of the Illustrator file. Took me about 2 hours so far and there are a few small details that I need to clean up. I will be sending the file to Rich for him to print when it is ready.
 
Phetishboy said:
Are you reading the thread correctly? I VECTORIZED this CPO from a scan of a NOS CPO that someone borrowed me last year. It is currently an Illustrator file on my computer. What you are seeing is a .jpg image of the Illustrator file. Took me about 2 hours so far and there are a few small details that I need to clean up. I will be sending the file to Rich for him to print when it is ready.
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No, really.. Where did you get the overlay in that picture?


j/k
 
Looks like you could take out the fire buttons, change the colors, and have a Nibbler CPO.
 
I actually just got the exact paint match for the metal plates done at a local auto paint store. I have the green and the blue. It's absolutely perfect
 
BTW - I haven't seen anyone accurately answer the question as to which CPO he vectorized in the first post. I believe it is Jump Bug...
 
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