Looking for Hi res pictures of Galag CP for tracing

[patrickl]

I'd like to vectorize a Galaga control panel, but the pictures I can find are all too low quality to trace well enough. Maybe someone here has a Galaga machine and is willing to take some close up's?

I'm looking mainly for a closeup of the lead ship (on the front side of the panel) and of the 3 pictures in the "instruction area".

I traced a scan from a cocktail cabinet CP, but that picture was really bad (so I basically wasted my time on that). It was Hi res, but someone made that artwork of a scaled down ship clip art and forgot to scale the linewidth with size. The lines are way to thick. The text and icons for the buttons I already have from that though.

[ErikRuud]

First, take a look at this thread: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=13;action=display;threadid=12580

I do have a file at home now that has just the ship in Adobe Illustrator format.  Is that what you need, or do you want the red, white and blue background as well?

[patrickl]

Yes I saw that other thread and the vector file for the side art and marquee. It's pretty good (allthough I think it could use some cleaning up)

However, I'm looking for the Control Panel. When I looked at the side art images I realized how much detail there is in the ships on the control panel. The scans I have lack all this detail. Right now I'm even unsure about the color of the blue background

So far I have this:

I traced this from a hi res scan of a cocktail cabinet, but as you can see the original is incorrect (the lines are too thick)

This one is a bitmap I constructed from several images I found (I have a better picture, but I though I'd better needed to compress it a bit to show it here) I also see now that I made the ships "crosseyed" (I mirrored half of the ship so I need to mirror the right eye back) Well I can fix that, but really I need a better file than this to trace it properly. Now I'm just messing around with bitmaps and it just wont work in large prints.

[zorg]

hope this helps

http://edeveaud.free.fr/Galaga/Galaga_cock_instructions.jpg
http://edeveaud.free.fr/Galaga/Galaga_cock_instructions2.jpg

you can also check the http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/instruction_cards for some stuff

[patrickl]

Thanks for the help, unfortunately those aren't what I'm looking for either. Allthough you remind me that I was planning to use that japanese picture for cleaning up of the instruction image for the ship being captured on the "upright" control panel.

I'm looking for a picture of the control panel of an upright galaga cabinet (or cloes-ups of bits of it). Thing is I have looked everywhere already and found gazillions of pictures, but all are unusable. So, I'm hoping that someone has a Galaga cabinet somewhere and that they can take a few pictures for me.

The best picture I found so far is the one on http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/unclean/ (this is a cocktail control panel and it has the picture I traced with thick black lines) I used this image to clean up another picture of the "galaga upright control panel" (mostly the texts and icons) Since this picture lacks the ship and a detailed view of the the green and red ribbon along the sides, I hope someone can take a picture of those two items (ship and ribbon) so I can recreate the whole control panel as vector art.

And while the're at it maybe also a picture of the bezel