grimmythereaper
Quiz Detective
- Joined
- Jun 7, 2016
- Posts
- 84
So a little bit of back store about how i got the cab. Im chilling a local classic game store when i over here a customer ask if the owner was interested in an arcade cab, this catches my attention and i listen to what is going on. Basically this guy has an old dead 4 slot cab that needs some help and no longer wants it, the owner tells him he would be interested if he had the space for it but already has 2 cabs in his store and doesnt have room for 3. I ask if the owner minds if i make an offer as i dont wanna "step on his toes" and screw him out of a deal. The says he doesnt mind and the seller tells me he would no less then 200, so i ask for pics and we exchange phone numbers. About 2 weeks later i now own a 4 slot mvs cab that looks like this
After about a week of just cleaning the outside and inside of the cab and painting and ordering parts i got her to look like this
I then started to work on the stencil for the vinyl.
i was going to do the red vinyl without the lettering and paint the letters on bc all the places that i called the vinyl was more then i wanted to pay for multi colored vinyl. I then decided to paint the cab as this was my first cab restore but not my first restore of something older, i looked up how people fill in holes on arcades and to my delight i found out that they use body filler for cars. So i get to work taking off the vinyl and bondoing the cab
and sanding
and after looking around on neo-geo i found a member who already took the hard work of getting color matching paint for the cab. I just took a pic and went to home depot and they scanned the pic i took. here is that members page for his restore
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?252328-Neo-Geo-4-slot-cabinet-restore
and my cabs 1st coat
and final coat of paint, each side has 3 layers of paint
More to come later
After about a week of just cleaning the outside and inside of the cab and painting and ordering parts i got her to look like this
I then started to work on the stencil for the vinyl.
i was going to do the red vinyl without the lettering and paint the letters on bc all the places that i called the vinyl was more then i wanted to pay for multi colored vinyl. I then decided to paint the cab as this was my first cab restore but not my first restore of something older, i looked up how people fill in holes on arcades and to my delight i found out that they use body filler for cars. So i get to work taking off the vinyl and bondoing the cab
and sanding
and after looking around on neo-geo i found a member who already took the hard work of getting color matching paint for the cab. I just took a pic and went to home depot and they scanned the pic i took. here is that members page for his restore
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?252328-Neo-Geo-4-slot-cabinet-restore
and my cabs 1st coat
and final coat of paint, each side has 3 layers of paint
More to come later