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| horseboy:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on April 11, 2007, 07:25:19 pm ---Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, let me suck your :censored: and call me Daisy. --- End quote --- SavannahLion, you seem to really be bucking to take ChrisG's place as my sig quote. :laugh2: |
| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: rovingmind on April 12, 2007, 12:59:18 pm ---I could mock up a foam mold and make a one off version of the first coin-op video arcade machine..........) --- End quote --- How funny, I gave that idea some serious thought not too long ago. I dropped the idea because while it's reasonably easy to form some fiberglass, or even better, give it a modern look with carbon fiber (my brother used to rebuild auto bodies), I simply don't have the artistic talent to carve a foam mold without detailed dimensions to work off of. Maybe once I get the garage cleaned out and the raw materials needed for the process, I might bring the idea alive again. I was even considering a really retro look by painting it in a metallic green that was so prevalent during the 70's. |
| rovingmind:
I would cheat and get my father-in law involved if you've seen a factory ram-air hood scoop on a 2004/2005 dodge, or 80% of the product line sold under the brand name GOOD HOOD for sport trucks you've seen his work he's also responsible for most of the molds libbey glass used in the late 60's early 70's |
| NickS:
--- Quote from: rovingmind on April 07, 2007, 01:05:53 pm ---Yes i'm new, Yes i've searched this forum. No i have not found any link to drawings of a starwars cockpit. I've collected the wonderful side scans from the unclean caga. I've printed out the original manual along with grabbing any photo of the cockpit i've come across while surfing. I have my bezel and cpo, and have been drooling over the repro control yoke thats in design and presale. I finally have a garage to work in. Has anybody drawn up plans for this wondrous thing? I would, but i have no access to an original and havn't seen one in person for years. I can piece together the sideart scans as reference using the printed cabinet length and height, but need dimensions on the internal woodwork to make accurate Cad drawings. I dont want to fudge it. --- End quote --- This is great project you are attempting and I wish you success with it. I would love to build one myself. I always save as many pictures of them I find on the net. There have been a few restorations documented and sometimes the ones sold on ebay have plenty of pitures. There is one ebay at the moment with a few pictures. Regarding the artwork. There have been 3 different groups who have produced it. Classicarcadegrafix until they closed. Mamemarquees now produces them and has them on their website. http://www.mamemarquees.com/starwars-cockpit-sideart-p-402.html These would probably both have used the same art files. Which probably originated from http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/unclean/ and have been worked on to improve them. Archer McLean here in UK is working on a silk screened run based on scans of mint NOS artwork and he has been working on it for a couple of years but he has his own equipment and his work is superb. He has also successfully reproduced the curved perspex at the back of the cockpit. He has posted a couple of restoration guides for the cockpit but I have not been able to find them when I just checked. He also talked about it being quite straight forward to repro the whole cabinet. He is a very nice guy and if he has the time I am sure he would like to help. PM me for his email if you want it. He often posts on RGVAC and UKVAC which may also be useful sources of help for you. The VAPS site also has a long list of owners of Star Wars cockpits which may also be of help. Scott from atarigames.com may have the orginal art files as he acquired a lot of atari items when they closed. I know he recently supplied the original art files for a repro run of the Star Wars upright side art. He may also be able to be of some help. I have often hoped to a damaged cockpit avaliable cheaply to take apart and use as a template and although they come up from time to time I have not been able to do so. Next to Star Wars I have also wanted to build an exact Dragons Lair. A couple a years ago I bought set of templates the cab for about $50 and they were superb. There is a discusion of it here http://www.dragonslairfans.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=224. I have often hoped someone would produce similar templates for a cockpit as i know I would certainly buy a set. I wondered if that if you are successful in this project, is it something you might be interested in?. If a few of us put in some money we may be able to buy a cheap damaged cockpit and make templates from that. Just an idea, a lot of work but great to have. Good Luck and I hope you are successful. |
| rovingmind:
I havn't compared the scans from the caga to arcadeguys yet since both image sets came from don's cab but i'm going to have to do that now. At don's site (arcadeguy.com) the images do not stitch together completely. ( i did the ole print and tape this morning and ended up with a botchy cockpit picture about 2' by 3', definitley a fun timewaster at work) I've seen the artwork reprints for sale but at the moment (buying a house and all the fixins that entails) i dont have any cash to put toward that until there is something to put it on. There is a fellow in europe with one dissassembled already but i havn't been able to get ahold of him. Everybody putting money in to purchase a cockpit to carefully dissassemble and trace sounds like a great plan but, once again at the moment my money is going toward paint and carpet and kitchen. All i would be able to offer is time to dissassemble it and make the patterns. If anybody else thinks this would be a better idea i'm all for it and have both tools and shopspace. I do plan on making patterns out of 1/4" luan for myself once i can get an accurate Cad plan made. Anybody that wants them will be welcome to the cad files once they are complete to print out their own cutsheets. My goal for this part of the project is to get both plans, and pattern sheets available. Since i have to ask for help on this i figured it was only fair to put them out for everybody to use. (my final goal is to have my own cabinet) |
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