Tempest to Major Havoc Sideart Installation

[eXidy]

Took me almost a year to work on this machine. I originally picked up the Tempest cabinet from Steve McDonald (fastmacr) in trade for a Tempest mini. Unfortunately this game needed tons of work, monitor had a bad HV section, bad deflection board, no video output on the board as well as lots of dings, scratches and holes in the cab. So after lots of internal work I had to remove the original art, bondo and sand the cabinet.
All the Major Havoc parts came from a game I purchased from Doug Titus in Florida. Had to fix the ARII, have the board fixed and replaced the marquee.

All I have to do now is fix the monitor orientation and ill be done:

 

[eXidy]

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[eXidy]

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Jon

 

[Taco]

Looking good!

 

[Phetishboy]

Absolutely Beautiful. Nice work Jon.

 

[OzTron]

AWESOME, makes me want one now

 

[Phetishboy]

If you woulda posted this in the restoration section, only I and one other guy would have noticed, so I applaud you for posting here in the General section. I am gonna start doing the same with all of my restorations. What's the point in posting if no one ever sees them?

 

[eXidy]

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hahahhah..
I only look in 4 sections: General, WTB, FS and Pinball. And pinball almost never

By the way, I was thinking of using blue or red t-molding, but I went with black (because I had a roll of it here)

jon

 

[Braido]

Looks good, you did a Phetastic job!

 

[Phetishboy]

hahahhah..
I only look in 4 sections: General, WTB, FS and Pinball. And pinball almost never

By the way, I was thinking of using blue or red t-molding, but I went with black (because I had a roll of it here)

jon

I think either would have looked good, I'm partial to the light blue myself. Black looks good in this case though.

 

[eXidy]

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[jow]

That artwork is fucking awesome.

 

[Hyde]

What a beautiful looking machine! Major Havoc is one of my all-time favorites. I really like your choice of black t-molding. I think it looks best because black is simply what most games came with back in the 80s.

 

[gregatron]

Cool!! I'm getting ready to do the exact same thing, how difficult was the installation of the front art? That's the only thing that has me a little worried.

 

[tron guy]

yeah that loooks great. Mine was converted a long time ago (I think) It has the all white sideart with the good major.

I may go with that stuff.

 

[eXidy]

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The front art was the hardest part. I had to align it on the left then cut on the right. Then once I put the t-molding back, it bubbled up some area's closest to the molding.. I eventually fixed it (after a few minutes). All in all it wasnt too hard. My biggest concern was placing the sideart cockeyed

Jon

 

[30FathomDave]

Looks great! TOG knocked it out of the park with that art package.

 

[kencinder]

I don't get it, was this game kit?

I'm lost on the fact that so many VAPs members list having a dedicated cabinet...yet I can't find a solid example of what one should be.

Looks good though.

 

[OregonPacman]

Very top notch! Makes me really miss my Major Havoc (SD conversion with minty artwork). Very beautiful artwork, makes it look like a dedicated game. Somebody is probably going to flame me for this, but that conversion looks WAY better than the dedicated cabinets.

 

[OregonPacman]

I don't get it, was this game kit?

I'm lost on the fact that so many VAPs members list having a dedicated cabinet...yet I can't find a solid example of what one should be.

Looks good though.

The dedicated version is short and more like a cabaret than a full size game. Its the same cabinet style as FireFox or Return of the Jedi. The Space Duel conversion also uses the spinner, not the green roller thingy.