Custom Printed Tempest Cabaret Artwork

[aeroflott]

I've been considering applying artwork to the side of my Tempest cabaret for some time now. The original art files were found and have been reproduced last year, but the cost from the US is an eye watering $160 before shipping and custom charges. Not only that, but the art itself wasn't particularly inspiring (to me anyway), as all the detail was pretty small compared to the overall size. Here's what the original art looks like:

As you can see the detail of the monsters is pretty small.

Anyway, I managed to find a hi res scan of the upright artwork on the web, and with the help of a mate who is proficient with manipulating digital artwork, he came up with an alternative design in the spirit and same size/shape of the original. I got it printed out and applied the art last night. Here's how it came out:

Pretty pleased with that, especially as it was a fraction of the cost of the original stuff.

 

[Fuzzy]

That does look rather superb, Tony!

Cracking games room you have, there.

 

[virtvic]

Ooh -nice. Better than the original, I reckon

Do you have the artwork for your weeny Asteroids as well?

 

[aeroflott]

I've thought about that - if I can do it on the cheap, I might just give it a go. Would need to be the Deluxe artwork though I reckon, as I don't think there was any produced for the Asteroids cabaret?

 

[Guests]

Very cool TT and I much prefer the cab with the side art applied and the fact that you got it on the cheap is a bonus.

Cool cab!

 

[Equites]

Looks better than the official artwork to my eyes, although its a shame Atari never did full sized artwork for the cabarets.

There is a guy down south who repro'd a Tempest cabaret from scratch, and created some real cool side art based on the cocktail version. I thought that looked fantastic, Mr Lilley will remember.

I'm sure Mr Lilley has the proper official Asty DLX artwork on his cabaret.

 

[tb lilley]

There is a guy down south who repro'd a Tempest cabaret from scratch, and created some real cool side art based on the cocktail version. I thought that looked fantastic, Mr Lilley will remember.

I'm sure Mr Lilley has the proper official Asty DLX artwork on his cabaret.

Yeah - that was RockyRocket - he did some great work. All MAME scratch build stuff (not really my bag, but very good).

As you say, his design was based on Tempest cocktail. Some interesting ideas if someone wanted to do something with a Tempest bezel too:

Here's my Asty DLX cabaret art: