MAMEWorld Forums - MAME Artwork: Official - Re: "TEMPEST COCKTAIL BEZEL" (ATARI) arcade artwork file restored by Zona Arcade & Mikonos

> Hello TrevEB!
>
> Thanks for participating in the thread! What matters are good intentions.
>
> Initially, I had no intention of sharing details about the processing work on pieces
> as complex as this one to reproduce, as this is beyond the nature of this forum, but
> it seems that Mr. Do thinks this might be of interest, so I don't mind explaining how
> I solved the complicated task of making a printed reproduction of this arcade
> decoration. Maybe the explanation will be of some use to you. I will do it after
> finishing and delivering this art with the drawing and exterior texts, I will also
> explain how I would make them in print, since I have also solved it and could give
> examples of work already done.
>
> Greetings

Not asking about anything complex here...

I'm referencing back to this thread: https://zonaarcade.forumcommunity.net/?t=51903196

Was that help from more than one actual owner of this cabinet, that still has original, untouched artwork on their cabinet, or was that from looking at pics and videos of different cabinets on the internet, and a bunch of people getting together deciding which of those is most correct?

Because I'm trying to do the first one, which is why I asked Trevor if he was still able to get high resolution pics of the original cabinet (he is unable to right now, because the cabinet it was scanned from has moved on).

Because the existing pics on the internet are not enough... different pics have different lighting, and none of them are that high resolution... what looks one way uploaded by one person, looks different uploaded by another person... I found a third one, where different photos from the same person, makes it hard to tell.

From looking at the detail in the actual scan:

The metallic part is obvious in the alien head
The metallic part is obvious in the border around the screen area, and around the main bezel
The metallic part is obvious in the "trapezoid" part near the alien head, along with the TEMPEST name
That is everything that I see as metallic in the bezel
Back to the alien head, you can also easily tell which part of that feature is "gray" rather than metallic... certain highlights of the head, along with the circle around the alien head
A part that both of us missed though... there is a white outline around the gray circle around the alien...
Taking that cirlce part and comparing it to the other parts that are "questionable"...
The ATARI logo on the clear area of the glass is definitely white, both visually, and if you use the eyedropper tool to check colors
The instruction text... it's still a bit hard to tell...
The text is definitely not the same gray... that part is obvious...
But if you look at the bullet points in the text, along with the 1P/2P icons, they are the same gray... and also have the same width white outline
Looking at the pics of the various enemies (flippers, Pulsars, Fuseball, Tankers)... those are all white
The instruction text... after closer inspection, yes, probably not white... but I don't think it's the same gray as the alien head either... I want to guess it's closer to the same color as the Space Duel cocktail artwork we have...
Or... I'm wondering if the gray in the alien head looks "off", because of the parts surrounding it with the metallic pain

Anyway... pic attached of what I'm talking about.

And... I think I just got lucky... I might know someone that has this cabinet right now... emailed them... waiting to hear back if they still have it, and if yes, if I can go this weekend to take pics of it. Will reply back when I hear back.

EDIT: forum software acting up... pic linked below:
Tempest Cocktail Details

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