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TheShanMan's Tron facelift

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TheShanMan:

--- Quote from: Spyridon on April 20, 2009, 09:32:55 am ---I love a good Tron restore!  How is the side art on this one?  Control panel looks good now.

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Side art is essentially perfect on one side. On the other it probably has 2 dozen scratches, ranging from very short to 2 or 3 inches long (most very short). The prior owner used a pen to fill maybe half of them in, since the scratches are white, but the rest were untouched. So I used a toothpick and paint to fill in the remainder, and that certainly is better than using a pen! So now from several feet away it looks great, but of course if you're looking close up you can see the scratches. But I'm far more concerned with what I see when I'm playing the game anyway. ;) Plus once we get our next house with a big arcade room, it might end up being sandwiched between games anyway.

Neverending Project:
Looks great. I don't even think I noticed the cracking on the CPO, but the crooked graphics would have driven me crazy.

Is that the replacement handle, or the original?

TheShanMan:
It's slightly more noticeable in the flesh than it is in the picture. On the cpo alignment, it was so easy to get it perfect. I just found some pill bottles that had lids exactly the same size as the joystick and spinner holes (I think on one I had to wrap it with a bit of tape to build up the diameter), and then stuffed them through the holes to serve as guides when placing the overlay. I'm shocked at just how horrible of a job the prior installation was! Obviously that person doesn't sweat and agonize over getting something like that perfect like I do!

It's the GGG handle, and I have an original as a backup. :)

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