Vs. Pinball Instruction Card Repro - Critiques please.

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Vs. Pinball Instruction Card Repro - Critiques please.

At the request of NotreCaine, I took this project on. He located a game on Ebay that had the instruction card and obtained this image from the seller:

Pinball2.jpg


It is always harder to work off of a photograph than a flat scan. I used the Vs. Golf card for some basic imagery tracing:

VsGolf.jpg


Here is what I have as of now. As always fonts are difficult to match exactly, and I probably need to work on the spacing a little, especially in the paragraph where the words are supposed to be even all the way across, since Illustrator doesn't have that option (as far as I know):

Vs-Pinball-IC-2.jpg


It was fairly difficult doing the tiny detail work of the mini-playfield layouts. I used some screenshots for some of the work, but the tiny detail will hopefully print well and look good on the finished product. here is a close up of that detail:

VsPinCloseUp.jpg


I'd appreciate any comments (positive or negative) that might help me tweak it closer to perfection.. My Illustrator skills are still not a good as I'd like.

Thanks...
 
That is impressive. I think you're being modest (no pun intended). Your skills seem to be above average. Even with the minor discrepancies, I think you did a awesome job recreating it. Great work!
 


The star next to 'HOW' should be a bit lower, it's not quite on the same line in the original. the period after 'vs' should be closer to pinball, or larger overall to cut down on the space between words. I need one of those babies. Good work.
 
I think you did an excellent job.

That could go in a Red Tent as-is and you'd never think twice about it.
 
Very nice, Steve. I was glad that you took the project on. Backdrop to this is: I had never seen a scan or pic of the Vs Pinball card. Neither had Mod or anyone else. So when I saw that Tent on Ebay, with the card, I asked the seller to snap a pic. He was very cool about it. I contacted Mod and asked him if he'd be willing to do this, since he was eager to find the card, also. This will be good for the Red Tent community!
 
So I lucked into a NOS Vs. Pinball instruction card today. Coincidentally it was the day after I printed modessit's repro card and put it under the plexi (lost a nut in the process to -- dammit!). Anyway, here's the side-by-side comparison of the real one and repro.

I think it's safe to say that's a great job!

There's a metallic ink used as the background color for the real one, but other than that it looks spot on.
 

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I have a NOS VS PInball marquee if anyone is interested it's translate material with adhesive back, 30$ shipped
 
It was attached to another NOS instruction card from different game kit that I bought. Believe me, I was surprised too!

That is impressive! Nice score. The whole reason, Steve (Modessitt) and I talked about repoing one, was cause we never saw one before. I had the pics from a guy on Ebay and Steve reproduced them. Came out awesome! I have one in my RT currently, with Ice Climber, on the other side.

BTW: Pm me a list of original RT cards that you own. Rock on!
 
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