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Author Topic: R-Type 1 & 2 side-by-side and thanks to John's Arcade for the know-how :)  (Read 1901 times)
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« on: December 22, 2015, 08:13:38 pm »

Finally finished my fall project last night just an hour before the official end of fall (my R-Type II):









My initial search for a R-Type cab (a childhood favorite) started a little over a year ago after seeing this rendition of the cabs in R-Type Dimensions:



My Google searching brought me to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWmiwwOGCC0

And then I REALLY wanted to find that childhood favorite that I haven't stood at and played in about 25 years. I also had never seen the inner workings of a arcade machine before and to see how my childhood favorite arcade game worked from the inside in that video was really cool.

Soon after I found my R-Type cab and and was reunited with it after not seeing it in person for about 25 years. At the same time I became hooked on that Youtube channel. I learned a lot from the channel on arcade restores and decided to take on my own project late this year which is the R-Type II posted above and below.



I wouldn't have been able to do this restore if it wasn't for the knowledge from the John's Arcade Youtube channel! From Bondo, to laminate. I never did any of that before. I never used a router before or anything. I think I did good for my first restore project, hehe. And thanks for all the restore knowledge and entertaining videos. This is freakin' brown paint! LOL. ;)


It was basically monkey see, monkey do....

Laminate (learned from the Jump Bug restore)....








Bondo work....













Gluing separated T-Molding grooves:



Restoring coin doors...




Basically I learned everything that made this restore happen from watching the John's Arcade Youtube channel so I thought I would at least share my project here and give thanks to where the knowledge was learned to let me pull this off!

Peace.
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2015, 09:13:15 pm »

nice. get yourself a r-type LEO and you all set mate!
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« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2015, 09:13:23 am »

Nice work

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