Egret 2 Restorations logs

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:40 pm

How about the installation into the rotation mech? Is it easy?

Monstermug · Post by **Monstermug** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:44 pm

emphatic wrote:How about the installation into the rotation mech? Is it easy?

It's Sega mount, same as the Nanao MS9. Installation into Rotate mech as simple as it is removing the old one. Just in reverse.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:45 pm

Monstermug wrote:
emphatic wrote:How about the installation into the rotation mech? Is it easy?
It's Sega mount, same as the Nanao MS9. Installation into Rotate mech as simple as it is removing the old one. Just in reverse.

Thanks a lot for confirming. I'll have to start saving.

gabe · Post by **gabe** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:25 pm

Very nice.

It's awesome seeing a cab restored correctly.

Monstermug · Post by **Monstermug** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:01 pm

Had a massive parcel delivered to me on Friday.

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Excited I opened it up and this beauty was inside.

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Brand new! Well happy.

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Quickly installed. Here are the pictures

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Luckily the repo side art that I stuck on comes off like velcro. Must have used cheap glue on the back. I decided to leave this on here for tempory as it doesn't actually look too bad until I get some better stuff.

I opened up the art file on wiki and found that the layers were quite badly done. Spent an hour fixing it. But I managed to sort out the gradient on the II, on the right and the R and E gradient on the left. Now I just need to find a printing company willing to do this for me cheap!

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trap15 · Post by **trap15** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:05 pm

Looks absolutely fantastic. Excellent restoration! Hope you get those stickers fixed.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:32 am

Looks great! Please share the fixed artwork .pdf.

Monstermug · Post by **Monstermug** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:20 am

Perhaps if cools send me his email, I can email him the vector file and he can replace the one on Wiki as that one is way off.

cools · Post by **cools** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:42 am

It's a wiki, anyone with an AO user account can edit it

Login, go to upload and use the same file name as before: Taito_Egret_II_Side_Art.pdf

Monstermug · Post by **Monstermug** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:58 am

I have uploaded it but when viewed, it still shows the original file. Have I done something wrong?

cools · Post by **cools** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:07 pm

Must be your browser cache, all looks good here

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:44 pm

Sweet!

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:54 pm

Love it - How does the monitor compare to the original in 15khz mode

Monstermug · Post by **Monstermug** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:46 pm

Trevor spencer wrote:Love it - How does the monitor compare to the original in 15khz mode

I can't really tell the difference to be honest but that's coming from a guy who couldn't spot a repo from an original

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:27 am

Monstermug wrote:
Trevor spencer wrote:Love it - How does the monitor compare to the original in 15khz mode
I can't really tell the difference to be honest but that's coming from a guy who couldn't spot a repo from an original

If you cant tell the difference , Then im sure theres not much in it - Cheers

ninn · Post by **ninn** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:53 pm

woah! Take attention to the white of the stickers too ... on the original sticker, the sticker seems to be transparent on the white, where as on the repro one, the white is pretty off!

Try to get a transparent sticker!

As far as I remember, you put extra yellow in the color, so it is not pure white. But on your stickers, white is exactly white.

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 7:08 pm

Id be happy with it even with the crap repro's cause that paint job looks sweet + new monitor = result , Ive seen cars with worse paint jobs than that cab

Monstermug · Post by **Monstermug** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:26 am

ninn wrote:woah! Take attention to the white of the stickers too ... on the original sticker, the sticker seems to be transparent on the white, where as on the repro one, the white is pretty off! Try to get a transparent sticker!

As far as I remember, you put extra yellow in the color, so it is not pure white. But on your stickers, white is exactly white.

What do you mean by transparant? You mean it blends in with the color of the machine or a see through transparant.

Also I am getting conflicting descriptions of what an original egret 2 side art should look like. I am getting the feeling there were more than one type of side arts printed for different batches of egrets made at different times.

Can anybody post some clear close up of what an original side art should look like? I've just been told the side art I peeled off wasn't original as the original was screen printed and the gradient wasn't actually gradient at all but silver pixels getting smaller and to give that gradient effect. The one I peeld off was actually printed in matt then covered in a laminated poly carb sheet to give it a gloss effect.

I don't want to be repoducing an exact repo of a repo. Please help clarify this for me please.

cools · Post by **cools** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:00 am

I'm not sure regarding the edges, but mine had the halftone silver gradient.

enricnes · Post by **enricnes** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:42 am

Just found this old thread. Here you have a close pic of the half tones of the II:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13973184/IMG_0502.JPG

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