Centipede Control Panel - what do you think?

[Superully]

ok, as promised i took some pictures, but as sascha has already stated, pictures don't show those colors correctly and don't "reveal" how off the colors of the print are. in fact, scott's blue has a slight touch of purple which doesn't show at all in the pics. sascha has seen the stuff in person and i'm sure he can confirm. first off a picture of scott's overlay print in the background with a piece of the original overlay on top of it. this original overlay shows two different shades of blue, because the upper one (darker) was the part exposed to the surroundings, the lower one (brighter) was hidden underneath the panel. as you can see, none of those colors match, HOWEVER none of those colors match to the bezel's blue either!



up next a picture of the artwork in comparison. once again scott's print in the background, an original piece in the foreground. apart from the fact that there are color errors in the priont (which have already been corrected), one can clearly see that neither the green nor the yellow (both colors also featured on the bezel) are a match - and once again neither of those colors match with the bezel's colors. the red is ok, not perfect, but ok!



in fact we would only have to match 4 colors to the bezel: blue, green, yellow and red. that's where we still stand!

[level42]

Well, I don't say this often, but I think we're ant-fucking here.

Just MHO of course.

[Superully]

Well, I don't say this often, but I think we're ant-fucking here.

somehow i have to agree, andré, but the blue on the print i got from scott is really really off, the picture doesn't even show a bit of how off it is!!!

[level42]

You have to keep in mind that this is an inkjet repro.

I mean, the clear errors like the mushroom edge color and the much too light red of the star are irritating but else.....

You're not going to hold an original CPO scrap part next to the CP for the rest of your life are you ?

[Superully]

ok, i finally took this on again: i've matched the colors as good as possible (eye-inspection in bright daylight) to the BEZEL (because that's what's directly above the control panel) and i think i've found pretty good matches for the red, green and yellow. not sure about the blue though, this is a strange kind if blue. i'll send my suggestions off to scott and ask him for the color codes of the selected colors, then i'll pass those on to the caveman for him to change the colors according to the codes provided by scott. once this is done, i'll send the corrected file off to scott for a test print. i'll ask him to do two different versions (because sometimes i couldn't decide on a single color) and from that i'm going to choose the final version. as you can see, this might take a little while longer , but hopefully it will be worth it in the end.

i have been anal enough about this, so let's finish it!!! my centipede has been standing around in the corner collecting dust for far too long now ...

[ckong]

I'm sure that last month you were pretty busy with your restoration works for several cabs, weren't you? 

[Superully]

i was! but i sent out two emails to scott, but never heard back from him

[Superully]

no reply from scott on multiple emails, so i guess he's not interested anymore. andré suggested asking rich from thisoldgame.com to take on the project and i think it's a great idea. before i ask him though i have a question for you guys: is the american centipede bezel the same (colorwise) as the european one? i still want the colors from the bezel matched to the control panel colors and if usa bezel = euro bezel rich has something to work with!

so if anyone knows, please let me know!

[Superully]

just wanted to let you guys know that i've started talking with rich about the control panel overlay. the problem is that the euro and the us style bezels differ a lot in color and i'm pretty sure rich doesn't have a euro bezel. so if he can't come up with another idea, i might send him my bezel over for a perfect color matching job.

THIS NEEDS TO BE FINISHED. my almost finished centipede is using up too much space in my workroom, it wants to be moved into my temporary gameroom.

[ckong]

Thanks for the update.

[Superully]

here's another update on this: rich is going to print a couple of larger samples for each color we need judging from pictures he got from me. he'll be sending those samples over to my place (along with some other stuff i ordered) and from those samples we're choosing the final colors for the overlay.
so hang in there guys a little bit more, i'm confident that this will be finished within the first quarter of this year!

[level42]

here's another update on this: rich is going to print a couple of larger samples for each color we need judging from pictures he got from me. he'll be sending those samples over to my place (along with some other stuff i ordered) and from those samples we're choosing the final colors for the overlay.
so hang in there guys a little bit more, i'm confident that this will be finished within the first quarter of this year!

I hope so.....Im still waiting for the Puckman CPO to be shipped despite a couple of promises that it would be mailed soon.......guess Rich is very busy ?

[Q*ris]

here's another update on this: rich is going to print a couple of larger samples for each color we need judging from pictures he got from me. he'll be sending those samples over to my place (along with some other stuff i ordered) and from those samples we're choosing the final colors for the overlay.

In this case this really is the best way to work. I dare saying: almost there!

[Alpha1]

Put the US overlay on - honestly it looks decent.

You can then wait until a nice/perfect original euro CP comes up for sale.

[level42]

Put the US overlay on - honestly it looks decent.

Sorry, but I have to disagree on this one.... Colors really don't match the Irish machine...

You can then wait until a nice/perfect original euro CP comes up for sale.

Ully's going to be a grand-daddy when that happens !