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vidmouse:
Ok, here's more photos and description of the glass restoration:

First, an overall larger picture, larger look:


A look at the instructions... used white acryllic to make some of the
rubbed-out letters more white


And here's the back of that:


The lesser-damaged of the two logos:


And the back of that.  Used tape to tape the paper behind the damaged parts after
lining things up, best as I could.  Spray painted black around it.  Note:  first time around,
I spray painted the paper too and it turned all gray, had to be scrapped out.


Here's the logo image used to fix the lesser-damaged logo:


And I chopped some of it to make the logo to fit the more-damaged logo.  I know, sounds
weird, but this way I used less printer ink.


Today:
More updates to come!  Decided to try my hand at painting wood grain over the white bondo.
Using a combination of dark brown, black, and a light brown from Jo Ann fabrics.  Didn't know
what else to do, the spots are large but the wood isn't something I can just sand down and
refinish.  I didn't want to paint over the WHOLE thing b/c I wanted to keep to the original look
as much as possible.  I thought about wood grain contact paper and may go there if the
paint doesn't work out.  After adding color I plan to protect with a clear coat.

Painting's not done yet, just started...

Singapura:
Man, this is better then Pr0n! Not that I ever watch Pr0n off course  :angel: I like the way you document every step and the pictures are awesome.  :applaud:

GAJoe:
It makes me tear up a little.  Sooo...beautiful... :notworthy:

What's funny about the settings is you could be a complete jerk operator and make the game cost a dollar, then give no extra ships to start and award no bonus ships during play.

Let us know how that woodgrain repaint goes.  You're doing a fantastic job.


Oh, anyone know what the vibration switch by the coin door does?  I've seen that labeled on a few different machines and I find the statement about it "Operates game over circuit when closed" doesn't help me much.

vidmouse:
Wow, thanks guys, that's great feedback.

The woodgrain paint is done, just finished and it's drying now.
Haven't applied the clear coat yet.  I took a few pics but b/c of my
flash and the fact that my dark brown is a little bit redder than what
the cab color is, it appears worse in the pics than it really is in
person.

Here's the tools I used (plus one larger round brush, not pictured):


Some "before pictures", coin door side:  Note that I did do a little test paint yesterday, that's why
some areas are a sloppy dark brown.




And coin door side, after-picture:


P1 side, before picture:


and after:


P2 side, before picture:


and after:


Back side, before picture:


and back side, after:


and finally, a whole unit shot.  I still have to clear coat it and wipe down the whole thing with clean-cloth, but basically I'm done.


Technique:
1.  Painted one coat of dark brown over affected areas.
2.  Lightly dipped into black and light brown to add grain texture to areas.  Used up paint and kept going over areas, sort-of drybrushing it.
3.  Any areas I messed up, I dabbed with water and clean towel and or wet brush.  Good thing about using acryllics, they're water-soluble.
4.  Any areas where I went overboard, I wiped down lightly with a wet towel to let the original grain print show through.  The actual damage areas weren't too bad... some chipped wood (hence I needed the bondo) and some scratches.  The wipe-downs helped show the grain texture through without bleeding out the paint over the scratches.

Zebidee:
Hey Vid, that's a great restoration job you've done there!  Those large gouges in the wood are really challenging.  Considering the amount of time you have spent on this project (about a week or so I guess, around family & work life), your results are very impressive.

As you have demonstrated, acrylic paints are really the way to go with this kind of thing - especially blending colours.  They are also much easier to work with and clean up, and you can get pretty good acrylics these days.

Glad that you went for the original restoration too, rather than mame-ing it.  Classic!!!  :applaud:

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