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Nice Carvings does it again.
« on: November 13, 2007, 04:14:08 pm »
The beautiful and talented Melissa made me this sign for my Zultan.

It is SO BEAUTIFUL in person...but it's really hard to photograph because she used a pearlized coating to give it a shimmer that looks great!
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2007, 05:00:05 pm »
Now you need to convert it to coin op like that guy in the new issue of GRM.
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2007, 10:34:26 pm »
I think that's one of my favorite carvings she's done, the others are great looking and well done, but somehow carved wood doesn't scream arcade to me.  For something like a Zoltan it's perfect.  As always great craftsmanship, but better than some others because it's the perfect type of project.
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2007, 11:39:19 pm »
It looks like straight out of Bioshock. I love that art deco style.
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2007, 11:47:37 pm »
That's awesome, and you have an excellent conversation piece there.
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2007, 12:18:03 am »
Mamemaster- That machine is awesome, nice work and thanks for posting about the carving.  :)



bfauska- I agree with you. You have to think of the arcade art more as decor, and not so much a 'wood carving' per say. It's much easier to stomach then.  :)
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2007, 02:55:10 am »
And much of it definitely looks more like sculpture than carved wood, which is also totally cool.
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2007, 09:52:41 am »
So far Melissa has tried everything thrown at her......so if you have a project in mind....give it a shot. I wasn't 100% sure that she could pull this off because of all of the detail....but she did it and exceeded my expectations.

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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2007, 01:14:38 pm »
WHY! WHY ! WHY! DID I CLICK ON THIS THREAD!!!!

Now I need one of those for my Zultan!
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2007, 01:30:11 pm »
I did take a ton of pics of this thing as well...It was such a cool piece.



If you want even more go here... :D
http://www.nicecarvings.com/forum/index.php/topic,33.0/all.html


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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2007, 04:11:13 pm »
 :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

Forgive me for being a total NOOB about these things, but basically what does the machine do ? Just scare you with the skull in the "magic" ball ?

The machine looks sweat, even though I'm not into those kind of arcade machines....
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2007, 04:15:10 pm »

The original Zoltan just lit up, animated a bit, spoke out a generic phrase and dispensed a little rectangular card with a fortune on it.
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2007, 04:29:19 pm »
Quote from: ChadTower on November 14, 2007, 04:15:10 pm

The original Zoltan just lit up, animated a bit, spoke out a generic phrase and dispensed a little rectangular card with a fortune on it.

ditto on this one....without the card. Check youtube...there are a lot of zultan videos out there...here's one of them:

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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2007, 09:12:57 pm »
Quote from: ChadTower on November 14, 2007, 04:15:10 pm
The original Zoltan just lit up, animated a bit, spoke out a generic phrase and dispensed a little rectangular card with a fortune on it.
Well, there was that one Zoltan that ...  :cheers:
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Re: Nice Carvings does it again.
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2007, 07:23:57 am »
Quote from: jbox on November 14, 2007, 09:12:57 pm
Quote from: ChadTower on November 14, 2007, 04:15:10 pm
The original Zoltan just lit up, animated a bit, spoke out a generic phrase and dispensed a little rectangular card with a fortune on it.
Well, there was that one Zoltan that ...  :cheers:

Yeah, but one of those would probably set you back a few g's. ;D
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