Puckman Custom Made CPO for my Bootleg Puckman

[level42]

Look what's going to come over the big waters to me soon:





Does that look sweet or what ?!?!?!?!? Brilliant !

[DarthNuno]

So simple... so perfect ... so beautiful 

[Superully]

totally awesome, andré! i'm sure your puckman is going to look brilliant - can't wait to see the overlay applied!

[Spyridon]

Hey, that's looking really good.

[baritonomarchetto]

Andrè, did they produced that cpo from a file of yours or was it a product?

[level42]

I scanned the artwork myself. First some Australian SCAMMER said he would vectorize the artwork but that never materialized.
(See: https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=710.0 )

Then there was GuyDanger on BYOAC forum who offered to do some vector jobs for free as a start to get some demo material on what work he can do.
(see here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=96410.0)
Give this guy some work if you have a project !!! He is amazing !

He did a very good job indeed. However there were a few imperfections (yes, I am anal) but after he put in so much time and effort I didn't want to bother him with it and I found Zorg to be so kind to help me out with the last few improvements.

Then I printed out a test file and tried to fit them on my CP and it looked perfect. So I contacted Rich if he could print the file (of course a "one of" can't be silkscreened so it is inkjet but I'm sure the finest quality inkjet possible). Rich is another great guy in the community (www.thisoldgame.com). Although he found it a bit hard because he didn't have any of the original stuff to match the colors, he did a brilliant job as far as I can see from the pics.

So, this was a project with some very cool guys involved and my huge thanks goes out to them !

[level42]

The mail man came by tonight (I love "regular" post, I hope they won't change this service, compare to UPS, DHL etc. etc.) to bring a little package:



Now what could that be ? 

Video Pinball V2.0 mmmmm, nice cards !!!!


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I LOVE IT !!!! BRILLIANT WORK RICH !!!!!   (The Kiss patch is meant for a friend who's a big fan)


Details, no flash:


With flash:

[level42]

More pics:






Time to get out the original !

VERY VERY VERY NICE !



NOTE THAT RICH DID NOT HAVE THE REAL COLORS TO MATCH !!!! HE ONLY HAD SOME PICS OF MY ORIGINAL !!!

So....how do the colors match ?

Well, we have to check with the original and exactly UNDER where the buttons have been protecting it from sunlight. There was even still protective foil there when I removed the buttons so the colors there should be still almost 100% original.

Without flash:


With flash:


I think it is VERY VERY VERY well done. The blue and the red are as close as you can get IMHO. MAYBE only the yellow is slightly off, but as mentioned, this was done without any direct color matching. I am VERY happy with the result !

Now comes one of the favorite parts of this hobby: removing the old CPO, and they used VERY good glue on the original.....

[Q*ris]

Excellent repro job! I love the crisp design of that CP. I'm always up to do that kind of job for free, don't hesitate to hire me.

[Superully]

that's just awesome - rich is a genius! is that the last part of your puckman puzzle, andre?

@chris: i haven't forgotten your email, just give me some time 

[ckong]

Wow, those colors are spot on. Rich really did some great work. Well, I hope what you have to do with the files I send you recently. 

[Robinholland]

Very Nice 

[gyruss]

That looks great Andre, you must be very happy!  

[SeTTleR]

Wow that looks awesome  Good to see such a cab coming back to life. And even better that there is vectorized artwork for this available. Really good job! Enjoy your new mint looking cp 

[Etienne MacGyver]

finally after all the trouble with our australian friend

Looks great Andre !