Lazarian marque restoration?

[PaulSwan]

Hi,

Mostly focused on the electronics side of game restoration & maintenance I've thus far managed to avoid the need to get too involved in the artwork restoration side (Zac art holds up well). However, the marque on my Lazarian is continuing to deteriorate to the degree that it looks really bad and if it’s not at least scanned in they’ll be nothing left to scan but dust. AFAIK, there is no existing repro or electronic archive of this artwork.

This is the state it’s in at the moment :



Midway “sucked” at printing on glass

I have 300 DPI scans off the fancy Xerox colour copier at work (~15Mb):

http://www.zzzaccaria.com/artwork/Lazarian/Lazarian marque 2.zip

I personally have close to zero artistic talent, no software or drawing skills of any kind so I’m looking for some help from folks more skilled than I. I’m happy to pay or trade – I should be able to get the printing done here myself so I’m just looking for someone to take these files and restore the art.

Thanks,

Paul.

[Etienne MacGyver]

Files downloaded Paul.

just cannot tell when i got time for it, its busy times 

[Etienne MacGyver]

Thats alot of halftoning there dude !

Halftone...  My favorite...  NOT    

[Belike]

Very nice artwork and it is in the best hands by now.

[PaulSwan]

Yeah, I noticed that this isn't as simple as the solid colour mostly straight line type of art - it has lots of those little dot shading areas

I looked on KLOV to see who else had one - someone supposedly has a mint one - except for the marque I'm willing to bet they are all like this by now. I'll probably print 10 or so off for the 4 or so known uprights that exist.

As always, your artistic talents are greatly admired

Paul.

[Arch]

The image makes me wonder, are the different shades of green supposed to be like that, or is that just the flaking? I mean, it looks like they've relied heavily on the halftone here (shiver).

[Etienne MacGyver]

Thats the flaking, there is only one shade of green used here,

the other tones are accomplished by the halfoning over it

[PaulSwan]

Yes, the colours themselves are all supposed to be solid - the watermark like blotches are likely the onset of delamination/seal failure  AFAIK all the shading is supposed to be just the little dots.

[Alpha1]

There's a guy on KLOV asking for pix of the wiring for his cab. He might have a better marquee than yours, thought maybe you can pic trade to get you a better scan.

[PaulSwan]

Replied and asked - worth a shot.
Paul.

[Arch]

Let us know how the KLOV thing fares. If it fails, I might be able to do some tracing after my two current projects are done.

[Etienne MacGyver]

We can split the work Arch if you like..

Although it will be nice if you have time for it, its not that i dont want to do it, its just that i have alot on my hands atm, so i cannot tell when i got time for this... 

At least the scans where made, and i have stiched it already, so in general it is "saved" 

[Arch]

That would indeed have been cool. As I said I have a couple of things that I have to get done first (ref. other thread), but once that is out of the way I can start, and we can play it back and forth a bit. It's a nice thing to work together like this. And good thing you saved it.

[Etienne MacGyver]

I might have something else up my sleeve...  anyway, contact me before you start please 

[Mikonos]

PaulSwan, I have your "Lazarian Marquee" restored.


"Lazarian Marquee" sample details. Artwork restored by Mikonos.


Do you need it in backlite?



Etienne, you are a fantastic arcade artworker! I follow you some year ago.


Regards