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Arcade Collecting => Restorations & repair => Topic started by: angus66 on December 06, 2013, 04:12:17 pm

Title: Buck Hunter 2 Restoration
Post by: angus66 on December 06, 2013, 04:12:17 pm

So I'm new here but am excited about this site. It's a wealth of information. Am restoring a 10 year-old Buck Hunter 2 Machine. It has a rather ugly cabinet; blue and grey formica and a console that looks like it was jerry-rigged to fit as there is three levels of t-molding on each side. I know restoring a 10 year-old BBH machine is like akin to restoring a '77 Vega but there was a BBH machine and a Golden Tee machine in the bar that I worked in university so this is what I want now in my Batcave. I might do a mame machine down the road - they look fun. But I've also been thinking about maybe a bartop Altered Beast or Double-Dragon machine as those were the two big games I remember when I frequented arcades.

Anyway - my father-in-law and I have started on this and I thought I'd post some pics.

Cheers.

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Title: Re: Buck Hunter 2 Restoration
Post by: IG-88 on December 06, 2013, 04:59:58 pm

Nothing wrong with restoring a Buck Hunter but I'm thinking that probably used to be a Neo Geo cab. A 2 slotter maybe?? Could be wrong. Heavy beast of a cab. What all you plan on doing to it? 

Title: Re: Buck Hunter 2 Restoration
Post by: angus66 on December 07, 2013, 02:03:16 am

Console art, and reworked marquee are done and ready to mount. Replacing the blue and grey Formica with black and that's about it. Oh, and Orange T-Molding.

Title: Re: Buck Hunter 2 Restoration
Post by: Sarver Systems on December 31, 2013, 08:53:46 am

I like the way it looks like a plexi planel in the front instead of a coindoor.