Restoring Bootleg Donkey Kong Sideart

[romperwomb]

Well I got down to striping down my recently acquired Trivia Whiz cab to find out what it may have been.  After removing a few bits of chipped paint, I found what looked to be some Donkey Kong art.  I fired up my Walmart bought Heat Gun and began striping.  After a bit of work, here's the result:



I would love to be able to restore this.  The conversion paint is latex based I think.  It is very sticky stuff when heated up with the Heat Gun.  Where the paint doesn't scrape away it leaves a ruff residue of re-hardend junk.  I've tried a bit of Goof Off away from the artwork spot and it seems to strip too far, down to the wood.

Anyone have tips?  Is my Walmart one setting Heat Gun good enough?  Should I avoid chemical strippers all together?

Thanks.

[stevejt]

I this degreaser (oven cleaner) to remove paint.  It did not do ANY damage to the original vinyl underneath.  However, the conversion vinyl pulled the paint off the original vinyl in a rectangle.  One pic is of the stuff I used, that I only found at K-Mart.  The other pic is a 6 player x-man that was painted 100% black.  I sprayed on, covered with a paper towel so it wouldn't drip off,(the wet towel stays fine on a verticle surface).  20 minutes later I EASILY scraped the old paint off.  I use the plastic "spatulas" they sell for working with bondo.  They don't scratch whats underneath.  I think any plastic spatula will do.  The orange stuff removes 100% of the paint, with NO damage to the vinyl.  However, I don't know if it would have an effect if the origiinal art was painted on...

Steve

[stevejt]

If you are questioning the paper towel thing...  Remember this cab is almost 6 feet wide, laying it on it's side isn't really practical here...

Steve

[stevejt]

ooops! one more thing.  If you do try this stuff, use in a well ventilated area.  It may smell like oranges, but it still has those oven cleaner fumes behind the orange.  I had my garage door closed.  Wasn't that bad when I started feeling high (opened the door anyway...), 'till a few minutes later the headache set in...

Steve

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After removing a few bits of chipped paint, I found what looked to be some Donkey Kong art. I would love to be able to restore this.

Somebody can correct me on this, but that maybe Crazy Kong Sideart ie not the official sideart that I created in raster and Zorg lovingly restored to vector for me and the library.

Any bootleg art is worth preserving if its different to the original.

[romperwomb]

After removing a few bits of chipped paint, I found what looked to be some Donkey Kong art. I would love to be able to restore this.

Somebody can correct me on this, but that maybe Crazy Kong Sideart ie not the official sideart that I created in raster and Zorg lovingly restored to vector for me and the library.

Any bootleg art is worth preserving if its different to the original.

I've been having difficulty Identifying this cab.  Here is a thread in the main forum regarding this.

I've found no cabs that are close to this one on klov or the net. There were so many different DK clones and bootlegs - they include: Crazy Kong, Congorilla, Monkey Donkey. 

I wish I could find something for reference.

Edit - Congorilla not Congo Bongo - different monkey related game by Sega. 

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Its Congorilla perhaps? But with homebrew bootleg artwork?

[RayB]

Wasn't it stated in the other thread that it could also be a generic cab?

[GGKoul]

I this degreaser (oven cleaner) to remove paint.

[romperwomb]

Wasn't it stated in the other thread that it could also be a generic cab?

With a DK CP and this detailed side art I doubt it's generic.

[RayB]

Let me rephrase it better.... It's a generic cab with a bootleg Kong kit installed.

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Let me rephrase it better.... It's a generic cab with a bootleg Kong kit installed.

Which is probably spot on.....the strange thing is teh artwork is based on the FLYER with additonal bits.

Very strange artwork.....I'll have another scout about to see if I can find any more bootleg Donkey Kong artwork. Its easy to find the original one....weird bootleg clones stuff is much harder to find.

For example there is a really crappy Donkey Kong Junior Sideart that has a stupid umbrella on it!

[stevejt]

WoW!!!  I need to find this stuff, as I'm having no luck finding 3M Easy Stripping stuff.

I was amazed too.    I used to use oven cleaner to take paint of RC cars 15 years ago.  Oven cleaner these days is NOT the same as it was 15 years ago.  But this one works great.  Too bad I didn't take before and during pics.  I was so happy at how good it worked, I just couldnt stop.  I basically paced in the garage between sections.  Too bad when it was all done, I couldn't get the conversion decals off cleanly.  They were BONDED to the vinyl.  I have a centipede thats painted black.  When I get time to do that I will take pics before, during and after.   By the way, I looked all over and only K0mart had that stuff.  BUt that was 6 months ago...

Steve

[Witchboard]

I may have to give that a go also.  I have a Capcom vs. SNK in a Killer Instinct cab and it's painted black.  I can see everything under it and there's no scratches in the black paint.  Maybe if I'm lucky it will come out nice.

[Ravage]

I've been having difficulty Identifying this cab.  Here is a thread in the main forum regarding this.

I've found no cabs that are close to this one on klov or the net. There were so many different DK clones and bootlegs - they include: Crazy Kong, Congorilla, Monkey Donkey. 

I wish I could find something for reference.

I've actually seen this artwork before on a complete cabinet here in the UK (OK in Wales!) I did have a picture of it many moons back - I'll search archives. But what I can tell you it had the best bootleg name I've ever heard for DK on the marquee - CHUNKY MONKEY - in fact, we still refer to the game as that here at RKD 

I know it had a bezel and the control panel was perspex (eww I know) but in black with red trim... The owner said he still had it but having only recently been there it wasnt on show - I'll phone him and ask if it'll really help.

Regards
Rav

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CHUNKY MONKEY

I thought that was an American Ice Cream flavour! LOL!

 

[romperwomb]

I've actually seen this artwork before on a complete cabinet here in the UK (OK in Wales!) I did have a picture of it many moons back - I'll search archives. But what I can tell you it had the best bootleg name I've ever heard for DK on the marquee - CHUNKY MONKEY - in fact, we still refer to the game as that here at RKD 

I know it had a bezel and the control panel was perspex (eww I know) but in black with red trim... The owner said he still had it but having only recently been there it wasnt on show - I'll phone him and ask if it'll really help.

Regards
Rav

CHUNKY MONKEY! 

I would be very interested in seeing picture of this.  Sounds like the colors are off a bit from mine.  It's not quite the same as they flyer as far as colors either.  The CP is perspex (I had to look that up to make sure it was another word for plexi, BTW  ) but more pink and blue. 

I this degreaser (oven cleaner) to remove paint.

I'm going to make a trip to K-Mart at lunch to see if I can find some of this.  A bit leery as the art is painted on rather then vinyl.

[stevejt]

Any update on removing the paint?

Steve

[romperwomb]

Nada yet, been distracted with my new Punch Out cabinet.  I was going to complain about how big it was again, then I remebered you have a full sized X-men cab stevejt.   

Going to search a bit more for the Orangeclean stuff, no luck at K-mart.

[romperwomb]

Thought I'd give an update on this...been putting it off since the paint removal did not go well.   

The heat gun just was not cutting it, it left behind a gummy sticky mess that wouldn't come off with careful and vigorous scraping.  I came realize that the sides are covered with a lamanit beneath all the paint.  My impatience lead me to using some "gentle antique chemical stripper"....pah.  (Was never able to find any Orange Clean Oven stuff).  It worked too well...Places where there is no artwork it was wonderful to scrape that gunk off.  The places with artwork, well...Mario ended up looking like John Merrick... 

I'd post pictures but it makes me sick to look at that ruined side art.  I've decided to paint the entire thing black with a flaming spinning Mame logo.  j/k   

I do plan to do something Donkey Kong related with it...possibly have some similar side art made up using the stuff from the vector art gallery - seems all the components are already vectorized.