Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Atari 4P Football Restoration - More Artwork Panel Restoration...
RetroACTIVE:
I've been pre-occupied with board repairs (not mine) so I've been unable to make any headway this summer on this thing... however today I did a little woodworking and rebuilt the coin box frame, here are a few pics..
I slapped the AR board on there for the pic... I reused the wood blocks that have the slots for the AR board and that was it... all of the other panels and blocking are new.
Everything else is cut... all new blocks for every single panel of this cab. I'm in the middle of touching up the artwork panels and getting them finished. Once they are done... I can put it back together again...
TheShanMan:
Nice work Jim! You absolutely do not know how to do something half way, do you? I consider myself anal (my wife always says "ocd") but you take it to a new level. And I mean that as a compliment of course. :applaud:
RetroACTIVE:
--- Quote from: TheShanMan on September 08, 2009, 08:09:37 pm ---Nice work Jim! You absolutely do not know how to do something half way, do you? I consider myself anal (my wife always says "ocd") but you take it to a new level. And I mean that as a compliment of course. :applaud:
--- End quote ---
Thanks man! My projects seem to take longer and longer so ... the 'sickness' is getting worse I think :dunno
My brother took a trip to NH to visit family and went to Funspot and snapped a couple of pics of this for me...
Nice to see it in one piece ;)
RetroACTIVE:
So I started to work on the artwork restoration... the edges of this panel were all frayed, crumbly and peeling. I decided to cut the white off so I used an exacto knife and cut the white very close to the black outline. I then masked the artwork with painters tape and newspaper. After some sanding and bondo application to fix the damaged edges, I put 4 coats of Rustoleum white semi sanding with 400 grit sandpaper in between coats. It looks very very good.
What I have left to do is fix the damage of the artwork itself. Now I plan on using hobby paint mixed to match... its only 3 colors, black, orange(lt/dk) and blue... so it shouldn't be too difficult.
Once I'm done with the touch up... I will spray coat the entire thing with Minwax polycrylic clear coat. Once this is done, I can put it back together... the other panel has the coin door and does not need any touch up other than the white paint which takes no time.
In preparation of final assembly I've ordered all the fasteners for this machine... here is a pic of all of the "internal" fasteners (wood screws, carriage bolts, lock nuts, washers etc..) I'm waiting on the black-oxide carriage bolts for the control panels.
:cheers:
Spyridon:
Nice job with the white. It looks really good.
(I really want one of these)
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