Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Mario Bros in Red !
Wade:
I can't explain why yours has different colors on the sideart (maybe because it was a kit? is it a different size compared to regular MB sideart? that might explain it).
However, as much as I like my cabinets to be as nice as possible, since yours has sideart that is flawless, I would lean towards just keeping it and living with the dings in the sides. Very careful touchup of the areas where the red is missing completely will hide the flaws pretty well, and that cabinet is still in better condition than most I run into. If money were no object, then I'd probably go ahead with the laminate and new sideart. The laminate, sideart, and overlay pretty much doubled the cost of my game, but the total cost was still reasonable to me for a keeper game.
It's a tough call!
Wade
Level42:
There were two official versions of the side-art. My bet is that the blue colored turtle version came with the kit.
Anyway, I may well end up doing it Darthnuno's way. I hope I can get his paint left-over.... :D
Level42:
Right....on with the CP restore (this game is too much fun, was hard to go on with the restoration :).
Well I removed all the hardware from the CP. Some pics:
Exactly the reason why I'm all for painted "all over" CP's and also the reason why I'll give this a nice paint....
The other's a lot better. Guess which one was "Player 1".....
Yugh....
Original Nintendo blue colored buttons....
My first Nintendo joystick disassembly...
Completely cleaned it very thorougly with q-tips & pure alcohol. Especialy the "pillow ball" that's stuck for life inside the joystick was a "joy" to clean. At least it IS very rewarding since it felt a lot better after removing all the sticky goo everywhere.....
I removed the "top layer" of the CPO with the heating gun. It came of a lot worse than expected. Will turn to the nasty (sticker remover) chemicals next.....
zorg:
--- Quote from: Level42 on August 06, 2008, 02:16:39 pm ---Received some samples from Formica.
I've also requested some samples from Italian laminate factory Abet. Hope they arrive before my holiday...
--- End quote ---
Can you, please, provide the name of the formica supier ?
it may be usefull for a project I have.
regards
Level42:
Formica: Simply ordered from the Euopean site. I guess this one is closes to you Zorg:
http://www.formica-europe.com/publish/site/eu/france/fr/home.html
Here's where you can ask for the samples (free).:
http://www.formica-europe.com/publish/site/eu/france/fr/home/services0/mysamples.html
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