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Title: Nintendo Cabinet Painting
Post by: Gumby on February 17, 2004, 04:00:19 pm
Have any of you ever had to repaint/wanted to repaint your Nintendo cabs? I've recently picked up an orange donkey kong cab that has a fair number of scars and such in it. It got converted to Neo Geo a long time ago, and since I have very little interest in DK I plan to leave it that way.   I've also got a blue mario cabinet that I'd like to MAME, but its also pretty scarred up, would like to repaint.

Was thinking about repainting the cab after filling in the scars with putty, but was wondering if anyone had done it. I'd like to paint it red (or at the very least paint over the scars with orange/blue to match) but the material of the cab seems to not be very responsive to paint...

any suggestions/ideas/experiences?

-Gumby
Title: Re:Nintendo Cabinet Painting
Post by: flampoo on February 17, 2004, 04:29:14 pm
It would behoove you to sand the cabinet first. If you're using an interior latex it won't adhere very well to wood that already has a finish. A belt sander should do the trick... You can get a nice one for about $40.
Title: Re:Nintendo Cabinet Painting
Post by: Gideon on February 17, 2004, 06:22:06 pm
Blasphemy.
Title: Re:Nintendo Cabinet Painting
Post by: flampoo on February 17, 2004, 07:57:30 pm
What's wrong with repainting? I don't see what's blasphemous about wanting to restore artwork. Consider it like the Sistine Chapel.
Title: Re:Nintendo Cabinet Painting
Post by: Gideon on February 17, 2004, 11:57:19 pm
No, no.  That's not it; nevermind.  Sorry I mentioned it.
Title: Re:Nintendo Cabinet Painting
Post by: Ken Layton on February 18, 2004, 02:29:17 am
Nintendo cabinets are made with a formica surface. Paint will just scratch right off and look crappy.
Title: Re:Nintendo Cabinet Painting
Post by: Gumby on February 18, 2004, 05:44:24 am
I do agree somewhat Gideon...however, these cabinets aren't in good enough shape to restore to their former glory...no matter what I do, its going to have to not be origional.

I've got 3 other orig nintendo cabs that I restored, so I don't feel TOO bad...

but.  The Formica surface...I'm not sure what to do about it.  There are pits and holes and scrapes and such throughout the cabinet (even a 4" circle cut out of the bottom left side, have no idea why)...even if I putty the bad areas, I'm not sure they make paint that will stick.  Wondering if I have to rough sand the surface until I get down to its wood underlay (thats a project I'm really not looking forward to)...

-G
Title: Re:Nintendo Cabinet Painting
Post by: paigeoliver on February 18, 2004, 08:05:34 am
Search google a bit, Donkey Kong (AKA, Nintendo cabinets), is the single most common "total restoration" around. You should end up finding some homepages with details of what people did to them.