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As many of you have probably seen already another skilled member of the forum has restored two images for me of the glass from the front of my Bell Fruit machine. Do any of you know where I can get decals or prints made of these two images so I can get the glass finished and back into the machine. A...

aristomatic wrote:Maybe someone here snagged them but not me

They are now on eBay listed separately

Well it's done %|% It's not perfect but it's pretty good even though I say so myself. It was a big challenge and I enjoyed doing it. A lot of the damage was at the 1 and 2 pixel level and was so mixed up few of the tiny areas had the same colour numbers, dozens of shades of grey for the worst parts...

That would be good as I will be quids in then, as I have a bag full of thrupenny bits somewhere.

Excellent, it only survived because it was packed away safely though even then the flakes were falling off. I hope you enjoyed your holiday?

Great stuff, have a good holiday, travels one of my favourite things, just wish I could afford to go more often, Rome was the toughest holiday I've ever been on, by that I mean we were up at dawn and late to bed for 2 weeks solid, just so much to do and see, it was endless we overdosed on Roman hist...

OK, looks great.

Yep, I did think it was too much to repair myself as soon as I touched the original the paint work just either moved or fell off. It's looking good already. Is it possible for you to take the background colour from the payout table on this glass and then change the colour on the top glass around the...

Tried uploading it again, is that better?

...the photo is much smaller than the top glass one though (57k)... Only just seen this, I agree it will need to be bigger. I don't really understand how it is that small. Someone will need to tell me how to upload it bigger or I can email it. It's 5224 × 3397 (4.6 MB) on my computer before I uploa...

Well it's just fantastic and yes I'll definitely be using it, I will however need someone to give me an idea who to use for printing and what exactly to ask for when seeking to get it printed, though I won't be doing that until the other part is done and I'm very happy to wait two weeks. You enjoy y...

I'd like to add I'm grateful either way, I've had the machine 10 years and it's stood in the corner most of that time with me wondering if I'd ever get it finished and within days of finding this site things are happening. Thanks to this forum, for all the input, the good work and what I've seen so ...

Bloody Hell it's looking amazing and you did the coin (which looks miles better even though you said you weren't doing it) - it's better than factory finish.

Crikey I didn't realise how long it took, I'm working on my car at the moment and getting nowhere, which is such a waste of time. The green is perfect though now I've seen it, they've all got to be green now, sorry. As for the colour where it was white before and now off white, I'm not really sure a...

Green shamrocks are great, seeing as I seem to be making this my own and you're not happy with the chrome, can we then make the borders black, the shamrocks green and the threepenny bit gold on a white background (it was white anyway) but threepenny bits were never white in reality. I'm just not sur...

Sounds interesting and worth googling to find out more, many thanks.

coppinpr wrote:is this the red you want?

Yes that red is excellent, thanks.

I'm very happy to hear what others think, the shamrocks would probably look good in bright green.

I still think the other stars might be a black degrading into chrome. Honestly, I've now stood staring at these for far too long and there is a clear difference between the black (which hasn't degraded) to the parts that I think are chrome and have degraded. I wish you could see them close. I'll go...

I have to ask, what is the other machine in your photo? ... If it turns out to be a gas meter mounted on a sewing machine treadle with a hat stretcher on the top, I shall immediately award myself ten points and have an early night. Lol , you sort of got only one part partly right. Firstly you misse...

Ive made a start on the top glass... That's looking great. I've gone and looked again and taken another photo and you can clearly see (though not so much on this image) my fingers and the lens of camera reflecting in the chrome. However, as you said, I do now believe the bottom 2 stars are black, a...

I can't see a lower light tube but surely there's enough light cast down from the upper one to light the lower panel? There are two light tubes, though not fitted back on the machine yet. The chrome mirror plastic idea is to be seen through the new decal through to the outside / front of the glass ...