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Etienne MacGyver

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The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« on: September 21, 2010, 02:52:22 PM »
As you all can read in this post, there was a horrifying accident !

Ever since, Bela is looking for a new Bezel to replace the broken bezel on his Crazy Kong.
some time ago there was a CK on marktplaats along with a Centipede.

Anyway, as you all know i love DK an CK because thats the game i played the most in the past.
I had an nonworking DK table, and it lives in my mothers attic.
Well since space is limited, my mother agreed with an upright only if i removed the table.

I contacted the seller, and we could not come together on the price he was asking fort his CK.

As you all know there is no Repro Artwork for CK, i asked robin if i could scan his artwork to help Bela out.
No offence to robin ofcourse, but i did not hear anything from him, so i contacted the seller of this CK with the question if i could come over to scan the bezel.

The seller was kind enough and willing to help fellow arcade lovers out and agreed that i come and scan the artwork.
What youre waiting for Etienne ? Lets GO !!!!

I grabbed the scanner from work, and put it in the case, Maximum protection ofcourse  :-*


More protection, i don’t want that after the trip the scanner is not working due to bad packaging  ;)



Everything loaded ? Scanner, CHECK! -  Laptop, CHECK!



Route in navigation, CHECK! All systems GO!



38,8 Km’s to go, not far today..  ETA 29 minutes..



Standard Stats picture:



Not many exiting moments on the road since its only 40 Km’s and mostly highway.
I only spotted 2 hot air balloons in the sky..



And here is my exit already..



Again the hot air balloons , only now with a beautifull background ..



This you cannot read almost, but it says right under the town name “you are there” ;D



Arrived at the location, a warm welcome from the local residents :D



The seller was a little later then me so i decided to take some pictures of the place..





Then i saw another “classic”



And another, right next to the barn, where more residents live :)



Oke, once the seller arrived, we entered the building and this what i came for…



Armed with my weapons of choice i started to scan the artwork :



Almost finished !



Not much special on the way back, just a fuzzy shot of my exit before i got home again..



Ending stats..



Total Km’s : 92, countries : 1, provinces : 1, Total time spend: 4 hours

Now its time to work on those graphics  :twisted:
« Last Edit: September 21, 2010, 03:00:46 PM by Etienne [NL] »

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2010, 03:11:48 PM »
I think it's the greatest thing in our community, selfless helping of each other!!! ;D
Many thanks to Etienne for this great favour! ;)

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2010, 05:37:14 PM »
Very nice thing to do indeed.
I'm pretty sure you know that already Etienne but just in case you don't this will spare you some time for sure:
to combine multiple images using photoshop:
First make sure they are all oriented the same way and place them in a folder.
Then in photoshop, choose: File/automate/photomerge
There you choose “reposition only” and point photoshop to the folder where your pictures are stored.

It works quite well (sometimes you just have to soften a bit the junction between two pictures by using the eraser tool on the mask layer).

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2010, 06:33:31 PM »
Wow dedication for sure !

So I'm a bit hasitant to ask but....not the side-art ?  ;D

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2010, 06:39:52 PM »
Unfortunately it has "standard zaccaria" sideart  :'( , for sure if it had the monkey, i would have scan that also !

@chrischris, Thanx for the tips, i am starting with learning AI in this moment, and photoshop i only have basic knowledge, so it comes in very handy !

I use "panoramafactory" in this moment to join pictures wich work quit well as i may say
you can give as much refference points as you like and the program does the rest , very reccomendable!
« Last Edit: September 21, 2010, 06:55:05 PM by Etienne [NL] »

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2010, 06:40:34 PM »
Ah ! That explains it :)

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2010, 06:47:20 PM »
That's a very nice thing to do Etiènne.  :spaceace:  And it is great artwork.

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2010, 08:06:32 PM »
thats very kind of you
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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2010, 08:23:00 PM »
great job, etienne, that's what i call "helping out BIG TIME". your effort deserves at least give  :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
all i need is ... PONG - and a select few others: TOUCH ME, DRAGON'S LAIR, JOUST, ROBOTRON, MR DO, SAN FRANCISCO RUSH THE ROCK!!!

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2010, 09:09:24 PM »
Thank all of you, It was my pleasure

Now the hard part , the graphics work....
i stitched the 8 scans, and the file grow to 280 Mb  :o

My processor is cooking at the moment  ;D

Ofcourse while i was there i played some rounds with the seller  ;D
Guess who is player 1 and who is player 2  :lol: (no offence mr seller)


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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2010, 09:35:22 PM »
i forgot to ask: what type of scanner is that?
all i need is ... PONG - and a select few others: TOUCH ME, DRAGON'S LAIR, JOUST, ROBOTRON, MR DO, SAN FRANCISCO RUSH THE ROCK!!!

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2010, 09:36:38 PM »
i forgot to ask: what type of scanner is that?
+1?
Looks very handy, never saw like this before! ???

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2010, 09:48:34 PM »
The Scanner  8) a HP Scanjet 4670
« Last Edit: September 21, 2010, 09:50:34 PM by Etienne [NL] »

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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2010, 12:04:52 AM »
Great job Etienne - this is pure arcade lifestyle !!!  :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Re: The Rescue of the CK Bezel-artwork
« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2010, 07:43:16 AM »
Yes that model scanner is very popular for scanning artwork :)