Re: FS: Dedicated Major Havoc marquees

The original plan was for me to send Roy all of my dedicated art for color matching, but I was told that it was a bit premature at the time. Should I send this stuff to you instead? I have a dedicated control panel, a broken dedicated marquee, a cracked space duel conversion marquee, and a pair of tempest conversion side art - which I was supposed to send to someone to scan but I haven't done it :(. Since you are so close to a final run, I'd like to send it ASAP so you can check against the original colors.

Let me know what, if anything, you'd like me to send and where to send it and I'll ship it this weekend.

Jon

At 11:58 AM 10/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>After a 15 month delay, I've finally gone to press today with some
>dedicated Major Havoc marquees. Roy Kaplan was kind enough to redraw the
>original artwork and match it up against a scan of an original DMH
>marquee. Since the market for these marquees is, shall we say rather
>'limited', I've opted again to have some Duratrans made, rather than
>screen-printed plexi material as the original was.
>
>Here is a sample jpg of the marquee:
>http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/atari/mh_marquee.jpg
>
>These are exactly the same size as the original marquees. They are
>really nice continuous tone prints that are meant to be sandwiched
>between two pieces of glass and then backlit. Basically, the same things
>you see in a light box at the shopping mall or a point-of-purchase
>display at McDonalds. The downside is they do not have an infinite
>lifespan. I was quoted a two-year period of constant backlighting before
>the colors would begin to fade. But, even if you kept the game turned on
>and marquee lit for two hours a day, every day, it would not begin to
>fade for 24 years. Not too bad, especially if you’ve ever seen a Ms. Pac
>marquee (or an original Major Havoc marquee that is faded)… Oh, and
>direct exposure to sunlight is bad for it as well.
>
>This is the same material and process I used for the War of the Worlds
>marquees printed last year. If you overlooked those, you can read all
>about the specifics here:
>
>http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/cine/wotw_marquee.html
>
>As I mentioned, these are continuous tone so they look just like they
>were silk-screened with spot colors ­ there is no pixelation at all. The
>printer is charging me on a per-foot basis, and will quote me a better
>price if I run a larger area at the same time. Currently the price is
>about $25 to $30 for each marquee. That price does not include exact
>trimming I'll see what the additional cost will be on trimming, but it
>may be cheaper to do it yourself.
>
>Since printing duratrans is relatively affordable and allows for very
>small runs to be made with little or no setup charges, I will be making
>just enough for those who are interested. I'm not going to maintain an
>inventory on them, so if you are interested, let me know and I'll put
>you on the list. I'm hoping to have the final run by the middle of next
>week.
>
>
>tom
>
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