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Mappy gets a makeover

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Spyridon:

--- Quote from: orion on February 10, 2010, 03:58:58 pm ---I've been wanting to see a mappy restore, but I figured I wouldn't ever see some one take on a full resto based on the lack of repo art work. Leave it to you to tackle such a task! :)

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Everything but the side art is available and there is a good chance that TOG will have this soon (because I will keep bugging him  :laugh2:)

Edit: still no good options for the t-molding


Spyridon:

--- Quote from: Level42 on February 10, 2010, 05:43:47 pm ---I want to become the importer of Citristrip for Europe. I am BEWILDERED why an environmental friendly product like that is not available here.

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It's great stuff and it smells good.  No problems with using it inside.  I'll ship you 10 cases, you mark it up 10x and we'll split the profits  ;D

Of course we'll need a preorder first  :laugh2:

slasherman:
I'm seeing things...

Spyridon:
Good news.  Rich at ThisOldGame has confirmed that he will be running the side art.  It will probably be available next month.  Now if I can only dig out of the 2 ft of snow we got here today and have the weather warm up a bit so I can paint!

Spyridon:
Now that the weather is getting better it's time to get back to work. Pulled out the Mappy to work on it.  I removed the old legs and added in new nylon legs to make the cab easy to move around.  While I was doing that, I got a good look at the bottom of the cab.  It's in very bad shape.  I think I will need to replace the whole bottom.  Not sure how I'm going to do that.  Sides also are not in good shape.  I just found a wood shop near me that has high end cnc machines and a lazer system that can automatically size and render an object.  I'm going to talk to them about what it would cost to cut a new cab for me.  Not sure if it's feasable, but worth looking into.

I've always been told that Mappy used 1/2" orange t-molding and that is hasn't been reproduced by anyone.  I decided to measure and my cab is exactly 3/4".  I pulled some left over orange t-molding from my pac-man restore and tried it out.  Perfect fit.



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