How to salvage the CP art??

[ChrisBEANS]

This arrived today..



I really love the aesthetic, and after taking some advice I did think what I’d do is try to clean and tidy it up, and keep it as is.
Sadly (doesn’t photograph too well) but it’s actually in quite bad shape. The ‘white’ is yellowed in places, it’s covered in chips and scratches and has little pockets of rust all over the shop.

There are plenty of entirely destructive things I can do to make it clean and useful, but it’d be a shame to entirely lose this design.

I think my options are (and I’m open to more suggestions!!)

A) Accept it’s lost and simply strip and paint/powder coat it.
(I don’t want to do this if it can be helped)

B) As above but chrome it.
(Kinda fun and blingy, but again I don’t want to lose the aesthetic)

C) Try to find some sort of service that can professionally paint/restore it to its former glory.
(Wouldn’t know where to begin, and if such a thing exists, it’s probably prohibitively expensive)

D) Get it scanned maybe? Have the image cleaned up and recoloured a bit and have some sort of overlay printed??
(Feels like the most likely option to salvage the design entirely? I assume this wouldn’t be wildly expensive?)

Any other thoughts or ideas?

 

[Fantazia2]

Doesnt look to complicated a design, scan it or just take a few straight on pictures and get someone to vectorise it and printed onto vinyl to stick on after stripping and prepping the metal.

Arcadeartshop should be able to print it out for you, not sure if could also do the vectorising.

 

[Flyback2021]

Lovely Aesthetic- I would not personally replace a cpo in that condition as I like the signs of use , age and original design/ production quality- but also realise photos are perhaps being flattering. I generally only look to replace a cpo vinyl if the panel has been altered from original , lost adhesion or really torn.
That said no harm in making a scan, having a file drawn up and a repro made if you feel it would benefit?

 

[mourix]

Hey I am looking to practice my photoshop artwork remake skills some more as I have quite a few to do for my atomiswave.

If you can take off the parts and scan the top completely, I will post a restore here.

 

[ChrisBEANS]

Sure! Can’t hurt to get it scanned in any case.

Turns out the buttons are soldered onto the PCB directly (no wires), so removing everything will have to wait until I get an opportunity to sit down with it, but I’ll try to get it scanned and I’ll send the scan over…

(Will most print shops be able to do a high res scan??)

 

[Spanky]

(Will most print shops be able to do a high res scan??)

From my experience, no. Anything other than A4 and they just look at you as if you're completely nuts.

 

[mourix]

I tend to scan my artwork myself and join the A4 scans in photoshop. The challenge is in the fact that normal photo scanners are focused on the glass and have a raised edge around it. This means you either need a HP 4600 scanner or to modify a normal one. I have done both..

 

[mourix]

If you don't care about accuracy that much, you can always take a bunch of photos and give a few key measurements and make one that is "good enough".

 

[Shoryu-stu]

This arrived today..

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I really love the aesthetic, and after taking some advice I did think what I’d do is try to clean and tidy it up, and keep it as is.
Sadly (doesn’t photograph too well) but it’s actually in quite bad shape. The ‘white’ is yellowed in places, it’s covered in chips and scratches and has little pockets of rust all over the shop.

There are plenty of entirely destructive things I can do to make it clean and useful, but it’d be a shame to entirely lose this design.

I think my options are (and I’m open to more suggestions!!)

A) Accept it’s lost and simply strip and paint/powder coat it.
(I don’t want to do this if it can be helped)

B) As above but chrome it.
(Kinda fun and blingy, but again I don’t want to lose the aesthetic)

C) Try to find some sort of service that can professionally paint/restore it to its former glory.
(Wouldn’t know where to begin, and if such a thing exists, it’s probably prohibitively expensive)

D) Get it scanned maybe? Have the image cleaned up and recoloured a bit and have some sort of overlay printed??
(Feels like the most likely option to salvage the design entirely? I assume this wouldn’t be wildly expensive?)

Any other thoughts or ideas?
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This arrived today..

View attachment 29037

I really love the aesthetic, and after taking some advice I did think what I’d do is try to clean and tidy it up, and keep it as is.
Sadly (doesn’t photograph too well) but it’s actually in quite bad shape. The ‘white’ is yellowed in places, it’s covered in chips and scratches and has little pockets of rust all over the shop.

There are plenty of entirely destructive things I can do to make it clean and useful, but it’d be a shame to entirely lose this design.

I think my options are (and I’m open to more suggestions!!)

A) Accept it’s lost and simply strip and paint/powder coat it.
(I don’t want to do this if it can be helped)

B) As above but chrome it.
(Kinda fun and blingy, but again I don’t want to lose the aesthetic)

C) Try to find some sort of service that can professionally paint/restore it to its former glory.
(Wouldn’t know where to begin, and if such a thing exists, it’s probably prohibitively expensive)

D) Get it scanned maybe? Have the image cleaned up and recoloured a bit and have some sort of overlay printed??
(Feels like the most likely option to salvage the design entirely? I assume this wouldn’t be wildly expensive?)

Any other thoughts or ideas?
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A thing of beuty.

 

[ChrisBEANS]

If you don't care about accuracy that much, you can always take a bunch of photos and give a few key measurements and make one that is "good enough".

I know nothing about this side of things. I’d assumed it needed to be done on a super duper high resolution thing.
If it’s lust a normal scan required, I can do that at work!

Result!!

 

[mourix]

Usually I just scan 600dpi-1200dpi on a normal flatbed scanner. Yours is more of a line drawing so anything would work. Just a matter of being able to get it to focus enough..