Stencilin' Stargate

mitchschaft

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Man, stenciling is time consuming. I figured I'd get to paint today, but it took a few hours to get the stencils on and everything masked off. overall it was pretty fun and I'll be doing it again soon with my multiwilliams scratchbuild. Got these from gamestencils.com. They have a nice PDF tutorial.

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Setting this up is a pain in the butt.
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Doing like the instructions say.
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Applying it and smoothing out any bubbles.
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Time for the bottom half.
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It's a pain to pull that outter layer off.
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Took probably 25min to get it all done. Don't F up and rip the stencil.
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Margarita time.
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Cover up the "REG" sticker so paint won't bleed through.
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Masking is the easy part.
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Done on both sides!
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It took damn 3 hours to do this. I guess that's not bad for a first time. I ran out of time for painting so I'll get to that later. Hopefully tomorrow.
 

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Thanks. That's my dad's shop. I'm lucky to have access to it. It used to be a barn with horses and cows 'n shit. There's a scratch-build Stargate in the back that's ready to be glued together, too.
 
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Maybe it's the lighting in this pic, but are you starting out with a smooth red surface? I usually do multiple coats of the base color with sanding between each coat.
 
Another thing, make sure you scuff that exposed area before you spray it. I use a green or gray 3M scuff pad. You want to break the gloss up, scuff the surface so that the paint will "bite" better. After scuffing, wipe with naptha or whatever, and then get the dust off of there. THEN it's ready to spray. You might get by without doing that, but more likely the stenciled paint layer could not adhere as well or pull up around the edges.
 
slight orange-peel, but it's smooth. you're seeing reflections of trees 'n stuff.

I was reading in your thread how you scuffed it so I planned on doin that, too. I'm probably gonna get to start in a couple hours.
 
Ok, sprayed a couple mist coats, 3 real coats. check it out
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Looks' fuckin' awesome, right?

peel it away
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fuckin' awesome
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Damn that looks good...
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See where it fucked up? Damn!!!!
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That cat's out the bag, folks
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Ok, I've come to terms....
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Went out with the folks had 3 long island iced teas, 3 glasses of merlot and here I am posting. I'm excited that I made it this far without a mistake, but goddamn. I am not doing the entire side over again :(. I plan to tape off that 2 square inch spot, sand, redo the red and fake the stencil.

What would you do? It's a 30 year old box and the only mistake thus far. Maybe I sprayed too heavy on black or maybe I ripped the stencil away too fast. Either way, there is a nice 1.5" missing spot of red and a little bit of the black gone.
 

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I would let the paint dry properly. When you feel there is no risk that blue painters tape would pull up the paint I would use the painters tape to tape around the area that needs to be painted red. Basically cover the cab except for those spots. Then I'd paint the spots red. Let dry then tape off what should be black in the same manner and shoot the black . Hard to say if it will look perfect or still show some remnant of the missed spots but it should look good enough where no one but you will notice.
 
Whoa,maybe it's the johnnie walker, but I'm not sure what you're saying. What I was thinking is mask off the whole side of the cab exept that 2" spot, sand until the red is gone. Reshoot the red on that little baby spot, then redraw where the black should be with tape (a mock stencil), then reshoot the black and deal with how it looks.

either that or resand the entier damn side of the cab, reshoot all the red and hope mr dude who gave me the stencils will give me another stencil. Which I wouldn't excpect him to do cause I feel like it's my bad and I'm the one who screwed it up.

I'm willing to let flaws show through. especially since it's a 30 year old cab that is being reconditioned.
 
You two are in violent agreement. You are both saying the same thing in slightly different ways. Fix the small spot, don't redo the whole side.

By the way, that Stargate looks great.

I keep looking at the side art on my games and some of the time I think I should restencil and then the rest of the time I look and say, "Those cabs have character". They survived a freakin' arcade and some operator's storage unit for 30 years, they shouldn't look brand new. Plus I want to know why Brandi was such a slut that somebody wanted to immortalize her on the side of a Joust.

I guess I would rather have games that play when I power them up then games that look good but never work. I guess I'll keep spending the time on making the boards sold and not worry about the appearance so much.

ken
 
ha, thanks, ken. i get it now. and I was playing that stargate earlier. it was kicking my ass big time. not sure why I chose such a difficult game to restore.

All the while, my wife was getting within 11k of my Galaga score. She's gonna put me to shame! :D
 
You definitely have an adhesion issue on your red paint layer.. Let it all dry very very well before continuing in order to let that paint bond become the strongest it can. If the paint and primer have bonded correctly you should be able to rip the stencils off with a pickup truck and a tow rope and be fine :)
 
I recommend going with lacquer next time. (Gemini works great and is pretty reasonable)

Each layer melts into the previous making great adhesion.

As an added benefit, you can spray from base coat, to stencils, to clear coat in the same day.
 
Thanks, guys. I did plan on sanding down an inch or so around what was already peeling. masking off the entire side, re-spraying the red, then respraying that little bit of black stencil. It's still sitting in my dad's barn waiting on the weather to clear up. It's been raining/snowing/hailing this week.

As far as lacquer goes, I know nothing about it. Will it spray in the HPLV gun like this oil-based stuff? I don't even know what lacquer is or where to buy it. Spraying it all in one day sounds awesome and I almost don't believe it :D. Plus, I still have enough oil-based stuff to do the stargate scratch-build we're building that I'm doing for a multiwilliams. I have the stencil and everything ready to go.

you meantion clearcoat... should I clearcoat this oil-based stargate cab? I thought of it, but forgot to ask.

I don't think I'll be able to continue until next week. or maybe even this sunday. it's supposed to be sunny and 52f outside so we will see.
 
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