Painting Backglass

dieseldogpi

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OK, I'm trying to touch up my Flash backglass. The translucent areas are in need of some paint. I read through the pinrepair restoration guide. I Triple Thicked the backglass to save the paint that is still there, now it is time to touch up. It is mostly only the translucent areas that need the touchup, I know these areas are hard to touchup. Pinrepair suggests Opaque'ing these areas, does anyone have any experience with this? I began to paint with acrylic paint, and it went on like crap, very watery. Basically looking for anyones experiences and tips with this. Thanks guys.
 
i suppose you can touch up a back glass AFTER its been triple thicked but
i would've touched it up FIRST, then triple thicked it after.

my one advice no matter what the order, is to mix your paint on a piece of clear plastic so you can hold it next to/on top of the color you are trying to match.

home depot has one of those color matching machines that might help too but you'd have to buy a pint of whatever color you are fixing to match.

i bought my fantastic paint set at Walmart for like 7 bucks
 
Seal first and then touch up is the "generally accepted" method, so no worries there.

Unfortunately, with the opaque areas, you are at the point where it's either going to take a heck of a lot of artistic talent or luck to make them look good. Once you illuminate those areas from the back...well my experience is they tend to stick out like a sore thumb.

Sorry, I don't have any specific tips, other than try something and if it doesn't work....remove it and start over. (That's why you seal first and touch-up afterward).
 
Touch ups a Link

Ok here ya go. Cleared a couple of my pins BGs and used this link here to great advantage lots of pictures.

http://www.pinrepair.com/restore/index1.htm#repaint

One last note. If your white translucents are off (like ball #'s on old ems) I have read of white out being used and getting decent transparancy in that case. As noted before, you can always clean off your repaints if you don't like how they look as you have sealed it. Good luck with that.
 
Would airbrushing the translucent areas help with consistency? Then maybe I airbrush some white behind to make it consistent with the other areas.
 
Find a local "starving artist" with a lightbox to touch it up for you. Just let um know what type of paint you want them to use, they will already have the paint and will match it better than the "computer matching". You should be able to get it done cheaper than what you will spend in paint alone.

You did the right thing by sealing first
 
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