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Moon Patrol Restoration

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Spyridon:
Nice work.  How did you create the stencils?

ChadTower:

I love good stenciling.

Wade:
There's more than one way to skin a cat, but here's how I did it, and it worked pretty well.

1) Stuck clear contact paper over the graphics and traced them with a marker.
2) Pulled the clear contact paper off and stuck it onto posterboard.  Used hobby/utility knife to cut out holes in stencil.
3) Sprayed backside of posterboard with spray adhesive.
4) Most of both sides were the same aside from some details like text... so I only made one "side" of stencils, split them where needed and just flipped the required parts over to do the opposite side.

For painting:
1) Stripped old paint with paint stripper (only took about 15 minutes per side).
2) Painted with quality flat latex wall paint with fine/smooth foam roller. Maybe 2 coats, sanded smooth.
3) Sprayed details with stencils and regular spraycans (several light coats).
4) Lightly sanded to reduce edges of paint colors.
5) Sprayed over whole sides with satin polycrylic with spray gun.

I'd be 100% happy with the results if the dark blue weren't as dark.  It isn't as dark as the photos make it seem, but it is definitely darker than the stock blue color.  When color testing, be sure to paint several coats on a test sheet first (initially I thought the color was correct but after many coats it got too dark).

Thanks,
Wade

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