CAPCOM Q-25 RESTORATION - The Journey - // Still on Going !

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Prologue:
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Many thanks to

@MostroVeneno from Argentina and his post. Full of great insights and a plethora of useful info. He also kindly provided some files which are useful for our goal. Saludos desde la tierra, che !!!

@jermz1 from NY. Really chill and cool guy, he allowed me to download his AI file to finish up my work. As part of our gentleman´s agreement the CPO file will be available here for download when the restauration process is done.

@liperyu His tip on typography? crazy good. Save me heaps of time. Beleza, como vai parceiro? obregado por sua ajuda !!!

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The Team:
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Oscar Ardila (The owner). He is a very skilful mechanic and a very passionate collector. He will handle the whole metal parts (rust, holes, painting). I am Jacobo a graphic designer with a passion for pixels from the 90s and 80´s. I run a small repro shop in Bogotá, please visit me on instagram as juegame. If you need any kind of restauration work, contact me ! :-)

With our powers combined we are putting together a Q-25 from the Almighty Capcom back to her former glory.

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01 - Technical data
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If you don´t want to scroll the whole thing, just skipp it till section 2. This is the technical bits and bites like color, where to find quality images, fonts, etc. . .

CPO:
- Fonts: Nimbus (More accurate to the CPOS example, However I am still thinking of Helvetica Compress or even ZURICH)
- Images for the SSF2CE and SSF2TNC
- Color palette: Main blue hue ->C93 M71 Y0 K0, R50 G98 B172
Yellow -> C0 M20 Y100 K0, R255 G202 B8, Blue Hue for characters

(this will be filled at the end of the production process)

Capcom Logo:
- Available here (Already have mine, but if you are interested the font is ITC Korinna Extra Bold)

SSF2TNC Logo
- Super font: No Idea, so I made my own.
- Street fighter logo: Made by me.
- The new challengers: Campora,
- Legal Jargon: Helvetica light.

Various Decals (Production year, toll-free line, etc)
- Available here and here. Didn´t bought it. Only used as references, I redraw both.

Soft. Used
- Corel 2025, AI 26.03, PS

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02 - The Challenge
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The wood on the candie were in great shape, same as the lateral artwork, so we keep it to maintain some small scars and kept the street cred.

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03. The artwork:
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-> 3.1 - The damm Logo !


Is hard to come by with good vector logos, so for this project I had the task to redraw everything. Photo dump of the logo´s process.

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Tracing some of the fonts. Remembered a few things from UNI. I found CAMPORA (The new challengers) and saves me time.


-> 3.2 - Tracing decals !


Pretty straightforward. . . some music and some elbow grease in PC and it´s DONE.

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-> 3.3 - CPO Nightmare !


As implied in other posts here. . . you always face a challenge in any of your builds. Here, it was the right SFII´s characters placement and how to solve the lines with the right HUE. Here is the photo dump of the process.

// pics soon ! //

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What´s Next?
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- Oscar is sending me the panel to BOG so Jacobo can confirm the positioning in jermz file. // D.O.N.E !

- Jacobo is taking some really upclose pics with a professional cam so we can actually be sure about characters positioning for tracing. // D.O.N.E ! CHeck 3.3 section photo dump, soon !

- Add characters as vectors in the final CPO file. // In progress. . . after I am finishing PS the guys to extract the lines and confirm proportions and locations I will try to vector the lines. In print will get a cleaner look instead of a shoddy upscaled hacking. . .

- Oscar is bathing all metal parts into a acid bath to remove rust. // D.O.N.E ! Looks beautiful !

- After printing everything, Jacobo is installing the panel. // In progress. . . I need to print everything first ! :-)

- Send everything back to Medellín

- Oscar will ensemble everything.

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Help and Requests
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We are struggling with the sizes of everything. . . do you know/have this cab and can confirm stickers sizes???? If you know, send me a DM here or send me a dm on my instagram: juegame (same logo as my avatar)

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STAY TUNED !
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