I’ve spent some time recently thinking about alternatives for the All American Football game. Quite frankly, the game just doesn’t appeal to me and it doesn’t get played at all. I knew this before I even purchased the cabinet and my initial thought was to convert it to a jamma cabinet and put [...]
I managed to free some time last weekend to do a bit of work on the All American Football cabinet. Other than new t-molding, this project is about done. I spent about an hour cleaning then reattaching all of the joysticks, spring sticks and buttons. The buttons will eventually get replaced but [...]
The new control panel overlay arrived today from Mame Marquees. I have had a marquee printed there before but never a control panel overlay. I have to admit, I’m very impressed with the quality. In anticipation of installing the control panel overlay, I wanted to make sure to have all of the cabinet components painted before [...]
I received an e-mail today notifying me that my All American Football control panel overlay was shipped. It should be here in 2 or 3 days. I’m busy painting those parts that I stripped and should have an update in a few days.
Anyone that has seen my schedule for the last two months knows it is difficult for me to find time to dedicate to my restoration projects. I did make some small progress on the All American Football cabinet last week. I removed the old control panel overlay using a heat gun and putty [...]
As promised, I finally have a few pictures to show the progress and paint job on the All American Football cabinet. As I said from the beginning of this project, this cabinet was going to serve as a test to try some new techniques. Why this cabinet? Essentially because it was cheap and doesn’t have [...]
Well, it’s been a while since my last post, so I’ll try to bring you up to speed on some restoration progress. The exterior of the All American Football cabinet has been repainted. The exterior metal pieces on the cabinet including the marquee retainers and portions of the control panel [...]
The new control panel overlay that I have been vectorizing in Adobe Illustrator is about done. The most important aspect of this control panel overlay is the button and joystick placement. As you can see, each joystick has directional indicators and the spring sticks also have indicators. If those aren’t aligned correctly [...]
I’ve finally started work on the All American Football cabinet. The vinyl is stripped off the cabinet and cosmetic repairs have begun. I’m not using Bondo on this cabinet as there wasn’t a need to rebuilt sections of the cabinet, simply filling and patching some holes. I’m using a product called Rock [...]
Well, it took a little longer than expected to get this into the work room. I had to do some major disassembly before I could move it into the basement. I fels like it weighs a ton! I didn’t feel like putting it back together simply for the purpose of pictures, so the pictures are [...]