a new guest has moved into the storage at the weekend - a european qix cabinet! in fact, this is my second qix cabinet, but the first is in worse condition, wiring harness / control panel have been hacked and i don't have a bezel or a marquee for it. so when sascha put his cab up for grabs (along with a second qix boardset), i immediately jumped for it. the cab is in very good condition, just a few dings on the sides. control panel, bezel and marquee are
PERFECT, once i have the space to work on multiple games at the same time this should be done in less than a week! enough said, here are some pictures
the sides are going to need a few touch-ups, but apart from that nothing major!
as a comparison, here's the left side of my other qix taito cabinet
much worse, would be quite difficult to touch up the art on this cabinet
but the structure itself is very solid
as i've said: no marquee, no bezel and a hacked control panel!
well, what am i going to do with the second cab you might wonder? the thing is: there are no stencils for the euro taito cabs (yet), so i'm going to scan the sides and ask brian from gamestencils.com to cut me some stencils. my idea is to completely repaint the second cab with a different color scheme and put in a taito game which came as a kit only:
arkanoid! there is some crazy kickass-looking arkanoid artwork out there which will help me turn this second taito cab into a nice little jewel!
