Have anymore updates? Also, do you have any images of your final CPO? I'm doing a Minor restoration on a working Galaxian and "MIGHT" be turning it into a 48 in 1 or a 60 in 1 w/ a custom CPO. However, I'll most likely keep the original harness, PCB and power supply happily in the cabinet so one day it can be a dedicated cabinet again.
Ha. I've been working on the cab here and there. I have some major house remodeling happening, so this project has gone backburner until I can move back in to be honest.
The artwork above is final, and when I send it in to Scott at MameMarquees, I'll downsample it to 300dpi and hide the button hole overlay layer in Photoshop. I can post that final PSD here if there's interest. It's currently very large, and all in vector format.
As for updates.. I was gonna save them and hit you guys all up at once. What you've not seen which is completed as follows:
- Interior painted black with foam roller. I'm 100% sure it's near impossible to get any sort of mirror-esc finish using a roller. Maybe I suck. It's fine for what it is.
- Added a vertical board to "box off" the retainer area light box, which holds the GGG NovaMatrix light
- Painted the interior lightbox with chrome spray paint for light dissipation.
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Wired up the NovaMatrix to a RadioShack toggle switch. It works.. a bit disappointed in weak light output. Maybe I mounted it too far back?
- Wired up the speakers, cleaned up and painted the grills. Untested.. assuming they still work fine.
- Painted the access door and reinstalled. Back is black to match cab interior, exterior is white.
- Sanded down keys to back entry door with steel wool to bring back old luster shine.
- Repainted coin door with Rustoleum Black Hammer finish paint. The door now looks glossier, not more like the original spatter texture like the paint cap would suggest.
- installed new coin inserts from Rich at ThisOldGame.com <-- Awesome work.. spot on when compared with old ones
- Installed new Manufacturing plate from Rich at ThisOldGame.com <-- same comments, stellar! Can't wait for him to hurry up and finish the repro gold Midway coindoor badge
- Acquired black leather t-molding, not installed, waiting on art first
- Bought and installed Greylight 14 tempered glass to fit original housing. No plans for overlay until I finish the rotating monitor solution.
So whew.. lot's of litte things. On the bad:
My wife knocked over my control panel while moving some stuff around for our remodel, and my GGG Turbo Twist spinner is thrashed. I am in contact with Randy and he's gonna hopefully be able to Dr. it up. I also used my friend, Bondo, to fix a sunken and smashed MDF corner on the control panel. It needs another coat of paint, and I haven't bothered with it yet. I HAVE attached the CP to the cab to safeguard it from any other workshop mishaps!
Once the remodel completes next week, I will order up the art and hopefully have this puppy playable by Xmas.
-csa