My timing actuall varied a bit, with mixed results. If I waited several days in between, I had good results and clean lines. If I pulled when the 2nd coat was still tacky, I'd occasionally have some stretching, but results were okay. If I pulled after 1 day, as I did with the black, I'd have a bit of flaking of the paint, which tended to stick to the stencil more than the cabinet and required some touch up. Having it to do over again I'd focus more on preparing the undercoats a bit, maybe even carefully sanding between the stencil, to help with better adhesion to the cab, and would probably recoat as fast as possible and pull the stencils while the paint was still very tacky.
The Preval thing is awesome. I did thin the paint just a bit. I would say about 15%. It took some practice, but you could get it to spray extremely fine mists, almost like an airbrush. The cans are small, but by the end I could do both sides of the cab (the blue for example) with just one can. And if you completely disassemble and clean all parts, they're perfect to re-use.
Here is Talon2000's thread, with a link to his album with tons of pictures: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=89459
Finally finished this 100% this morning. Sprayed four thin coats of Krylon Crystal Clear gloss and reassembled everything. It feels good to be DONE.
Spyridon I think your Midway coin door plate is the correct one. It's the one on the flyer, but that also shows black T-Molding so who knows. I thought about making the change to your style plate, but decided I'd stick with the one I had and leave the change to 'someday'.
