*(Tittle changed to Sopranos restoration to post the process here)*

Just got a Sopranos and will get it cleaned and shinny in the next weeks. Pf is perfect with absolutely no wear
The cabinet art is restored, but has an ugly restore on Tony's face. lol looks like a cat
So the question is, should i make me a decal set for this?
I have a scanner and with my art skills i can easily reproduce some perfect decals for the machine.
Also the art is a little yellow. It is supposed to be clear white, right?

If this was your machine, what would you do if you were me?

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Well, decided to post the restore process here. Never saw a SP being restored on forums, so here it goes.
First, 3 plastics will be reproduced. The bottom slings and the top safe plastic. Going to the printer/cutting/crapping/etc today:badass plastics.png

Cleaning as started. Machine is not that dirty on the top, but needs new rubbers and lights.
The safe is horrible. Decals for the safe arrived today
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Before after..
The machine will be mounted without side posts.. tournament style heheheh
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Bottom part of the top is all cleaned now
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If you remember where you got it please let me know.
I saw one once that was Tony's face looking to the camera with sun glasses. I think it was black and white with red logo.

Hmmmmmm.... not gonna do anything new here. I think the side art looks really strong and cool Scarface style.
The pf art looks crapola. I though on doing a complete redesign of the pf's art and plastics once.. I even made a sketch of it. Will try to find it and post it here. But just thinking on the hours i was gonna waste on that made me kill the idea fast

I printed 2 of each. One with a remake of the plastic's crappy quality, you know, with that crappy printing where the colors are dots of cmyk prnting colors. And another with plain colors, vector like.
I am gonna choose the best for me and guess you can have the other one.

Left the anti rust liquid way too long on the ramp flap, so the black paint got completely damaged. Had to take it all out in the end. Now it's just shinny metal like lol
Guess we can call it a mod...hhmm.... doesn't look that bad anyway
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Safe before-after

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Top of the pf is all done and shiny

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Babes shining even more:

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Repro plastics look good
(I got 2 extra sets, if anyone needs the lower slings or the top of the safe let me know)

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One more:

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And one more:

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On to the lower part of the pf...

The pf top and bellow is all restored and shinny. Playing perfectly now. I am just waiting for a camera stand that I ordered to make a vid.
Also ordered the side rails with button guard to paint them in red. Will pain the legs and lock bar too. (will not be paint, I can't remember the name of the technique..)

About the cabinet art, yes I have decided, I will reproduce it. It needs to be scanned first.
Yes the image exists on the internet, the problem is that it has a different graphic treatment on the cabinet. I seriously doubt I can reproduce the art with the image from the net, so I will have to scan the machine and restore the art in photocrap..
Will post everything here

That's exactly what I am gonna do with the rails, legs, shooter, etc
Sopranos looks amazing like that.

The image is easy to find, yes: http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the-sopranos-2_7524.jpg
The problem is that the printing process on the machine makes it look like a halftone graphic effect. And it's very hard to reproduce exactly. So it's easy to make a scan and a graphic restore.
Yeah and I never found the pics for the head sides either.

It's getting hard to find a sopranos, specially with a mint pf (like mine muhahahah), but you can still find one.

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Anybody knows what is the size of the t-molding that this machine uses?
What is the best to use? And where to buy it?

Help?

Thnks for the help!
Guess is 3/4" inch, and in Europe is 18 mm.
Will decide if I am gonna put the original chrome or red. Since I am painting the side rails, legs etc in red, maybe a red molding will be nice?

I'm going all red.
Something like this:
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Pimp my Sopranos!

The machine is disassembled and the scans are made. I thought this was a 2 hour job, but it was all day :s

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Let the photocrap begin!

It's a see through scanner. It's out of production for a few years now. You can't find it anyymore So when this one gets some problem, it's over :s

I will check the box and let you know

It is compatible with mac. Check for the drivers on their site and you will see the mac drivers.
I run it on a macbook pro from 2010.

A lot of work on this, but I think I got it

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The good thing about being a photoshop god (lol) is that I can restore pretty much any art muhahahahahah
All done:

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Powdercoat is done! Oh yeah!

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better pics:
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Decals are ready!
The cabinet will be restored this week, maybe next week.

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Art gone!

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What a beauty!
I am so happy I invested on my machine. If it was me doing this cabinet work it would turn out horrible lol
These guys are really pros:

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