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Title: Robotron Side art?
Post by: JesterDEV on May 04, 2003, 12:04:53 am
Would anyone know of or have a image of this? I did find I stencil set, but its $125 and I just dont have the money. I have looked at a few but nothing that I can use..

btw, what the hell color are the sides? White? Silver? I am trying to replicate it with psp but having no luck what so ever.
Title: Re:Robotron Side art?
Post by: JesterDEV on May 04, 2003, 11:59:58 am
I managed to find a listing of the colors:

Sherman Williams Isle of Capri (blue)  SW1783
Sherman Williams  Theater Red  (red) SW1602
Sherman Williams Sliverado  (silver)  SW1005 - not exact, but as close as I could get.

Now to get them as close as I can in psp.
http://www.appolo.com/colorcodes/robotron_color_codes.htm
Title: Re:Robotron Side art?
Post by: Ledbetter on May 04, 2003, 12:10:49 pm
 Its a silver color. Here is a site where someone did a complete side restore with the paint codes he used-

http://www.arcadefever.com/robotronproject.htm

 He has a nice side profile that you could blow up and trace if you want to make your own stencils. I used a similar picture of a Robotron mini to make stencils. I went the tracing paper route, but if your good with Adobe Illustrator you could use that instead. Its a pretty simple side art to copy, just a bunch of strait lines.

 Edit- Heh, I see you found the site on your own.
Title: Re:Robotron Side art?
Post by: GearHead on May 04, 2003, 01:56:13 pm

This guy used the same paint colors but did a little tweaking on the silver...

http://www.tutankham.com/paints.htm (http://www.tutankham.com/paints.htm)

Robotron colors come from Appolo.com, I post them here because I have verified the color against a real restoration I have done and confirmed the match. With the silver specifically, the answer to get it right was to add a touch of black to the paint and then get some aluminum dust from an auto body shop. With those alterations, the paint is dead on.
                    Sherman Williams Sliverado  (silver)  SW1005