Request: Pac-man kickplate scan/pic

[TurboC--]

Been slowly restoring the paint on my Pac-man (FINALLY got ALL the colors I needed!)  My kickplate is really far gone, and what I need is a good, head-on frontal picture of the Pac-man kickplate.  Then I plan to do an edge detector on it, print it out at the perfect size and use it as a stencil to help guide my painting.  Can anyone help out with a pic?  It would be appreciated. 

[grueinthebox]

Isn't this the Pac-Man kickplate art available at the Arcade Art site?

http://www.localarcade.com/arcade_art/details.php?image_id=126

[TurboC--]

It's not correct.  They just copied the sideart, but it's not the same:

http://www.pachisloslotmachinesales.com/pic/mspacpac.jpg

[mahuti]

I've made a note at the AAL. Thanks for the heads up.

[zorg]

will the pac art (2.2Mb) on ionpool.net be more suitable for you ?

[TurboC--]

That's the same as the AAL, so it also does not match the original.

[RayB]

Can you take a photo of your kickplate straight on, then download the 30 day trial of Illustrator, then put that photo on a layer at the bottom, and then tweak the vectors of the art that's "wrong" until it's right.

[TurboC--]

If no one with an original Pac is willing to take a pic, then I'll try other things.  I'm worried that image manipulation is going to distort it though.  Anyway, another thing I could do is go to one of the local arcade dealers that has a Pac machine, and take the picture myself.  Or possibly even borrow a stencil (one dealer I know has the stencils but I can guarantee he wouldn't lend anything to anyone...)

[RayB]

The beauty of vectors is the abilty to move as many or as few points as you want.  And isn't your art intact enough that you would have enough reference to resize and place the vectors?

Wanna pay someone else to do it?

[TurboC--]

Well there's hundreds of thousands of Pac-Man machines out there I imagine, so it's not only easier but safer to just get a proper pic of one, than to take a skewed image and try doctoring it.  Why bother?  It was a valid idea, but really unnecessary. 

[zorg]

you may check http://www.pac-man.com/

[TurboC--]

I did, some of their images don't seem to work and the one that does is too small to be of much good.  They probably intended that.  I think they want you to buy their stuff rather than help you for free.  It looks like I may not get my pic request filled, so I'll just have to go do it myself when I can find the time and opportunity to find a local Pac machine. 

[Ad_Enuff]

Italie on the MAMEWORLD Forums has a Pac-man machine at the moment and is currently desparately seeking a NEW bezel thanks to an accident at home.....long story short he's been checking out various AI files to print out and replace it.

He may be able to scan the kickplate for you and in return you fix the current Pac-Man bezel in the library with all the associated minor inaccuracies.

I currently have a scan of an official bezel Italie scanned in for me as SOURCE/reference material which is all that is needed (approx 12Mb zipped).

Does this help?

[TurboC--]

I don't mind helping out when I can, and I also wouldn't mind fixing the "inaccuracies" in the art library, even though everyone there and here seemed to despise me for pointing them out.