Main > Project Announcements
My Donkey Kong restoration
ChadTower:
That's really good. The pics make it almost look laminated, actually.
Donkey_Kong:
Looking very good Cowbell. Damn I'm so jealous of that cab right now. :banghead:
More Cowbell:
Thanks for the kind words.
1) The paint went on with those small foam rollers. I primed, sanded, primed again. Then I painted, sanded, painted again. I am really happy with how the paint came out.
2) I ordered most of my stuff from twistedquarter.com. They have an eBay store so I made all of my purchases through the auctions where they were a bit cheaper and they combined shipping on all of it. They shipped super quick and like I said, the plexi cpo is teh awesome. I got the marquee from mamemarquees.com.
3) The stripping/bondo part was the worst. I picked every last bit of sideart off the sides (my fingernails were worn to a nub) and then sanded heavily with a rotating sanding pad attached to my drill. That took forever and made quite a mess. I put the spackle and bondo on heavily planning on sanding heavily again. Again, more mess when I sanded by hand. The results were good and were definitely a long way from where I started with the sides.
Having brought this back from the brink gives me a lot of confidence in being able to restore other cabs in bad condition. I tried to do as little modification to the inside as possible in case I (or someone else) decide to one day go the whole way and put original parts back in it.
MameMaster!:
Wow...FANTASTIC job.......so jealous.....AND you got to meet Mr. Steele.......your life is good! :notworthy: :dizzy:
More Cowbell:
--- Quote from: MameMaster! on April 04, 2007, 12:06:13 pm ---Wow...FANTASTIC job.......so jealous.....AND you got to meet Mr. Steele.......your life is good! :notworthy: :dizzy:
--- End quote ---
Sometimes all of the planets just line up for you.