Stripping cabinet...

[vbtalent]

Did a little work to the old playfield today buy doing some air brushing on the burgundy/purple areas.

Since I have to repair my new playfield I thought I might as well go ahead and do a little testing.. I think it came out rather well, the only question that I have is that when I pulled the frisket and masking tape there is a slight edge, does this just need to be sanded and with what grit????

The other thing I figured out was that I should have gone ahead and filled "ALL" the playfield imperfections in the areas to be painted, live and learn.

For a first timer I'm finding out that the actual spraying isn't the problem it's mixing the paint correctly so that the airbrush can shoot it!

VB,

 

[craigmack]

I think that looks great, and once you sprayed the clearcoat you would see the edge. Well done!

 

[vbtalent]

Thanks Craigmack..

I'm a little concerned about sanding fresh paint but I guess that is the only way to get rid of the paint lines... anyone do this before? What kind of results did you get?

VB,

 

[vbtalent]

I did a lite sanding on the freshly painted areas with some 1200 grit and mainly stuck to the the raised areas and it came out well, I think this is going to clear nicely.

I started working on the white areas on the playfield by using some more frisket and a lot of triming..

I've also been working on the kick-out hole wear so common on this machine. I scanned the playfield and created some vector art for hopefully a print on some waterslide decals, since it's colored and I don't have a APLS printer I'll have to come up with another alternative to get this fixed.

Anyone intersted in offering up some help with an ALPS I'dbe interested... ;>)

VB,

 

[vbtalent]

Made some progress today by airbrushing all the white, well almost... I forgot the kick outs as I wanted to lay a base coat for the touch ups.

Anyway I think it came out nice! I'm still working on the Lion's and they are the biggest challenge. Now that I have a base coat of white on them the yellow should be a breeze... enjoy!

I can't believe I'm doing all this work on a practice playfield...

VB,

 

[OTTOgd]

It's looking great and an inspiring thread. Thanks!

 

[vbtalent]

Thanks OttOgd.

I might as well document it somewhere - maybe on my website when I get the time, yeah right...

VB,

 

[vbtalent]

Here's tonight's update for those interested...

Since I repainted all the white area I had to find a way to repaint the lion's head area yellow and separate that from the area that should be white so I can up with this idea...

I printed the key line image I had of the lion onto some overhead projector film and used that as my trace. I positioned the lion as it should appear since I could faintly still see the underneath original layout, I then temporarily taped the key lines to the play field.

Then I took some frisket and covered the area to remain white and overlapped the lion key lines, then trimmed the key lines and removed any excess along with the lion that was printed on the film... It looks darn close but until I paint the yellow I won't know for sure.

I was getting ready to shoot the yellow and ran a test and then realized I had the wrong color, bummer! After realizing that I had to clean the airbrush, etc. off to the store tomorrow to pick up the correct color.

Enough rambling, here are the picks...

 

[vbtalent]

A few more pics...

 

[vbtalent]

Well I sprayed the Lion's today with mixed results.

The technique worked great but the color matching wasn't very good, I thought for sure I had it and it came out wrong... :>( it's just too gold for my taste, not enough yellow.

Here are some pic's with the key line layer on top.. I think it looks really good.

VB,

 

[vbtalent]

I finished the decals in Illustrator tonight so I'm ready to go with printing them to transfer paper.

I haven't decided if I'm going to do the larger numbers in the original Red or if I'm just going to go with black. I have a vinyl cuter that a buddy let me borrow so for S&G's I might give that a whirl and see if I can create a mask for spraying, I prefer the Red for numbers and the "Bonus Value" has to be White somehow..

As far as airbrushing, aside from the pop bumper areas I think it's about done, this is only a test. I'm undecided as to spraying the Lime Green, maybe...

I'll need to do a light sand and then apply some clear before I apply the decals. I need to replace the inserts before that is done so I have some work ahead of me.

VB,

 

[vbtalent]

Well I learned a little tonight and was able to create some vinyl graphics for a spray mask for the numbers and other text I needed to finish the airbrushing...

As a comparison I had originally printed the graphics on Velum to make sure I had the correct sizing as you can see it's perfect.

I attached a few pics on some test vinyl, tomorrow I'm going to see if I can cut some frisket and see if I can make that work.

Here are the pics if anyone is interested.

VB,

 

[vbtalent]

For those of you following the restore... here are a few pics of the stenciling and painting of the numbers.

I tried to print the decals on frisket instead of vinyl but it wasn't substantial enough to withstand the vinyl cutter so I just used the vinyl decals that I made. I was a little concerned about the adhesiveness of the vinyl and whether it would pull the fresh paint up, lesson learned is that they didn't.

The numbers came out spectacular, the "Bonus Value" not so much as I over thinned the white and it bled a little, I'll be touching up the touch up... ;>)

Since I was painting the Red I also did the pop bumpers and left them un-filled like the Purple one's, no sense in fixing some and not all of them.

VB,

 

[OTTOgd]

Looks great. What vinyl cutter are you using? Is it a desktop model?

 

[vbtalent]

Thanks, I'm real curios how it's going to look when it gets cleared...

No, it's an IO Line Classic Model similar to this one (http://www.ioline.com/prod/100.html)...

I got lucky when my buddy let me borrow it. I'm planning on also re-doing my Firepower cabinet and needed to make some stencils and it was just laying around in his basement gathering dust...

I think that you could do the graphics easily with a desktop model though...

VB,

 

[vbtalent]

This weekend I repainted the pop bumper area white and in the process decided to leave the Gottlieb signature alone and it will be the only white area to not be repainted.

I'm really pleased with the outcome so far.. there's still a bit of work to do.

I finished the kick out hole re-work for the graphics. I used both Inkscape and Illustrator but could have simply used Inkscape which is where I basically re-drew the graphics. I think they came out great, now to see about how to reproduce them...

Anybody know what color to use for the pea green in the playfield? I can't imagine Cleopatra was the only PF to use it. I'm also wondering if anyone knows what to use for the yellow... hopefully someone will chime in.

I also worked a little on the inserts by sanding them flat using some 400 wet sandpaper. I need to scan some artwork so still have some work to do on them before they get glued back into the PF.

 

[KenLayton]

Looking for some suggestions on a little clean up on the coin door...

It looks like the original owner left this machine out in a garage or where the humidity could get to it as the coin door looks like hell!!

Anyone have any good suggestions for cleaning this metal? (see pics)

VB,

C-L-R (Calcium-Lime-Rust) remover (available in the cleaners section of any grocery store) is what I used on the Cleopatra that was in the fire. Mix it 30% CLR to 70% hot water. Let sit 5 minutes and scrub with a BRASS bristled "detail" brush commonly available at Harbor Freight Tools and auto parts stores. Rinse thoroughly with warm water then immediately dry the parts off with the heat from a hair dryer.

This thread goes well with the Cleopatra that was in the fire that I fixed.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=153960

 

[vbtalent]

I had skipped the CLR and just went with a brass wheel chucked in my drill press..

VB,

 

[joeycuda]

Anybody know what color to use for the pea green in the playfield? I can't imagine Cleopatra was the only PF to use it. I'm also wondering if anyone knows what to use for the yellow... hopefully someone will chime in.

Have you checked the Testors 'lacquer' line of little spray cans? I could be way off, but that reminds me of the Mopar lime green. It might be a close enough sub if you're masking an area at a time.

 

[vbtalent]

I haven't but that's in interesting thought.. since it was painted in the 70's it has to be close. I remember a Road Runner in my old neighborhood painted that color..

Thanks.