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No major updates but slow progress from the weekend.

 

I got one clear coat on without any perceived yellow tinge (at least to my eyes)

 

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Started the first coat of the other metal panels...

 

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Still need to prime the big panel, but that can be a job for this weekend :)

 

Without spending too much money trying different paint to find the closest to the feet and top end cap, I found this particular colour (thanks Hyundai! :))

 

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The feet and cap before the work...

 

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A quick comparison (she'll do!)

 

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And the end product!

 

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I'm quite happy with the way the colour has turned out, will do a wetsand and another coat before putting the clear coat on.

 

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Looking good mate , take my hat off to you , but powder coated for me job done in a week saves so many hours of work ,
Yeah powder coating would've been good and quick.. But tbh.. I wasn't prepared to spend that much.

 

Time and effort I'm not counting as it's part of the "project" and the "fun" I guess :)

 

The other thing is, I still needed to paint the plastic bits so painting it all the same colour just made more sense for me to suit my budget.

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What felt like a long day's worth of work, doesn't show in pics hahah

 

The end caps are now done and the base is now done!

 

Got the wheels on and two coats of clear.

 

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Unfortunately, not spraying in a dust proof booth meant in between clear coats, a few dust bunnies got stuck :( (it is what it is)

 

Now I wait a few days for the clear to cure..

 

I prepped the bottom part of the CP early this morning with a coat of primer..

 

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Managed to get the last can I had to do one coat of white.. Time to call it a day

 

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A trip to bunnings tomorrow to buy some more cans of appliance white and clear.

 

 

 

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Test fit - she's starting to look the part!

 

Still a long way to go, but when it's like this.. It's quite exciting [emoji4][emoji4]

 

 

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Front view of where the shroud got patched up...

 

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You can see the massive difference in colour..

 

Cleaned retrobrite bezel, vs a freshly sprayed appliance white :)

 

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Monitor shroud getting primed!

 

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Ok, back from holidays so a quick update on the parts side of things....

 

I purchased a clone Naomi cabinet from highway entertainment with a couple of gambles.

 

1. Hope that the marquee will fit the Naomi

2. Hope that I can fix the 31khz crt that has "discolouration issues" (as advertised) to use in my Naomi to take it back to its original 31khz purpose

3. Hope the bezel will fit the Naomi shroud if end up using the monitor

 

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I can confirm the marquee fits perfectly.

 

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I haven't been able to confirm the bezel as I've been primarily focusing on the crt..

 

I plugged in a DC via VGA and no amount of degaussing fixed it his issue..

 

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I was told this is a colour purity issue so I started looking into it.

 

Fortunately, I was tipped off by Ludo (not sure if he's on the forums or not) who stated he had the same issues and he fixed it by placing magnets on the tube.

 

He sent me a quick turorial that used magnets from bunnings and also mentioned using a dowel to put the north and south poles on each end to see the effects of putting the magnets on the tube..

 

A quick trip to bunnings and a purchase of a dowel, I came up with my purity fixer! :)

 

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After spending a good 30 or so minutes going back and forth, I found where I needed to stick the magnets to give me the best result

 

To fix the bottom left issue on the monitor, I placed two magnets behind the tube..

 

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To fix the the top right issue, I put two magnets on top of each other behind the area

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Pictures say a thousand words, so here are the before and after the magnets.

 

Red before

 

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Red after

 

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Green before

 

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Green after

 

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Blue before

 

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Blue after

 

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And finally, the same MVC2 splash screen is now as good as I can possibly get with no perceived colour purity issue!

 

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Whilst I can appreciate this will never be a Toshiba PF setup, I'm more than happy with what I'm seeing and is good enough for my use.

 

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Not mine. Just saw it looked to be pretty decent and similar to yours. I’m still learning about these candy cabs and was tempted to get this one but I think I’ll go for another Vewlix/Games Wizard.

 

It's not a particularly good buy as all of the original Naomi wiring has been stripped from it. This greatly lessens the value of the machine.

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It wouldn't be a Naomi cab without a Naomi right?

 

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Managed to get these for a decent price (on the assumption it works! *fingers crossed*)

 

Now I've got this... I have to go all out and get a netdimm setup with a pi and use the Web to do net booting.

 

I really hope it works!

 

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Now I've got this... I have to go all out and get a netdimm setup with a pi and use the Web to do net booting.

 

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Definitely interested to hear how you go with this!

 

Looking great so far btw [emoji106]

 

 

 

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So the time has come for me to transplant the 31khz from the clone to the real deal... I've had to wait since the chassis on the vertical astro needed to be fixed before I could do anything..

 

I started stripping out the monitor to change over to the proper sega frame...

 

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I'm trying to identify the chassis, but there's no real markings stating model number or who it's made by, I have no idea..

 

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Fit the monitor braces on...

 

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After too much mucking about, I decided to keep the frame it was originally on and not change it to the sega frame, it wax just too hard to line up the chassis mounts without some extensive hacking, so I decided to keep the frame (its crap compared to the sega, but it fit!)

 

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Check out the flatness of this screen!! It's a bootleg Toshiba PF!! :D :D

 

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Next up was to remove the bezel from the clone and use it...

 

She fits like a glove!!!

 

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Finally, it was time to line her up with her siblings...

 

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Not a bad sight! It'll be so good when they're all powered on!

 

Hoping to get in a hour or so each night for the wiring since it's in the garage.

 

Can't wait to wire it up and test the Naomi's!

 

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Did some rough wiring to test the Naomi's....

 

Wasn't happy when I received this message :(

 

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Then I did the old cartridge technique and took it out and blew on the cart.. Gave it a decent push down and voila!! We have picture!

 

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Tried the second Naomi mobo and to my surprise, that also worked!

 

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Now I'm really wanting to get a net dimm!

 

So the job for the next few days is to start cleaning up the wiring and getting the control panel all wired up to test the JVS!

 

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There's also a new jvs adapter for pc/pi I think I'd you're interested in emulating the other cartridge games

 

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Will a net dimm still be required?

 

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If you emulate the whole system? Guess not. I emulate Naomi perfectly. Love the library. Plus you get atomiswave, Dreamcast and the other one Sega h something.

 

It's like the jpac

 

I say this because my understanding is netdimm only does so much if the library

 

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