Excellent work from one blast city fan to another. Are you recreating the character art and everything?
I think Ryu needs an ear message, they look a tad inside out:
Chempop wrote:Excellent work from one blast city fan to another. Are you recreating the character art and everything?
I think Ryu needs an ear message, they look a tad inside out:
The character art is almost the only thing I didn't completely recreate. I used the HD Remix re-release art. The high quality SPFIIT logo and an example of a gem for the marquee I found while browsing some MAME FrontEnd forum. I adjusted the colors to match and recreated the background art, gem placement, color stripes etc. Also high res version of lightning on the internet instead of what existed in the backgrounds.
Blast City 1= Street Fighter Alpha 3 - Blast City 2= Marvel VS Capcom 1 - Blast City 3= Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
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I got a ton of parts in from Paradise Arcade Shop for all 3 Sega Blast City cabs as well as a bunch of arcade sticks I'm working on refurbishing. Thought I'd do an unboxing video for those who may be interested in ordering from them.
Definitely have my work cut out for me here. No doubt i'll have sore fingers from removing and replacing all the buttons in all these arcade sticks and arcade cabs.
NOVEMBER 2014 -
The old Lamilabels I put on the control panels back when I first got my original 2 Blast City cabs started peeling off since Lamilabels only last so long with heavy use. The designs on those Blast City CPOs were chosen based on making them resemble the graphics on all the arcade sticks we used at events and conventions for AZHP Gaming. Since those arcade sticks are all being completely refurbished with original designs for the general population's use, the artwork on the Blast City cabs wouldn't have any resemblance. Instead of doing something original again, I decided to go stock.
The issue with going stock, is the PDF of the Blast City CPO that's been floating around the web for the last 10 years was super low quality, and although I have the ability to recreate stuff in Photoshop (see Puzzle Fighter marquee and move strips on 1st post), the Blast City CPO would be extremely difficult to recreate. When looking around the web for resources and someone who was doing high quality recreations, I saw Jasen's Customs had one on his website and I had already seen some of his quality work with his line of Superguns and Panzer metal arcade sticks. I contacted him about getting a copy of his art to see if it was high enough quality for my preference. He was kind enough to send it to me (trusting that I wouldn't post it elsewhere and that'd I'd get it printed through him) and I was very satisfied with the quality of the print and his customer service.
So I purchased 3 of them and received them a few weeks ago. Finally over the last few days, I got a chance to peel off the old artwork, strip all the leftover sticky from the Lamilabel, and put on the new CPOs using the wet apply technique. I'd never done it before, but Jasen had a YouTube video on it and it was a lot easier than I thought.
When I first got the first two Blast City cabs they were absolutely disgusting and I only did a decent clean (see 1st post). I was too excited to get everything up and running to give them as much love as I should have. While waiting for the CPOs to dry, I started heavily cleaning the fiberglass control panels with general purpose cleaner, soapy water, disinfectant wipes and paper towels. I'll give them a nice wax before I put them back on the cabinet.
-Will post more once I've put buttons and sticks in.
Blast City 1= Street Fighter Alpha 3 - Blast City 2= Marvel VS Capcom 1 - Blast City 3= Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
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