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2nd Project - MKII/NFL Blitz 99 - Updated 5/20/09 - Minor Tweaks

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cmoses:
Brock,

I am rolling, using a sponge roller with rounded edges.  Same thing I did on my first cabinet.  I am using a Behr paint in a satin finish.  I does pretty well rolled on.  Not a perfect finish, but very good and I am happy with it.  I will probably do 2 or 3 coats to get it where I like it.

I sprayed some of the metal parts I did on my first cabinet and had ok results.  They were small and easy to handle.  I am not sure if I would want to tackle spraying a cabinet. 

I don't want to sound like I am complaining about the weather.  I know there are a lot of places that are getting much worse weather and I can at least work in my garage comfortably.  The swings are what get me, 40 degrees between the highs and lows. 

brock.sampson:
Just kidding about the weather stuff.  I hate winter and my wife doesn't like the heat.  So I guess I'm stuck in Nebraska.  I got a hvlp sprayer from harbor freight a while back.  I think I'm going to try it on my recently acquired dynamo z back if it ever warms up.  I tried rolling with foam rollers and I always get too much texture and roller marks.  Maybe I'm doing wrong or expecting too much.  Anyway your cabinet is looking great, keep up the good work.

cmoses:
The pictures make it look better, on close inspection you can see some imperfections.  I think its impossible to not have any roller marks if you are rolling it on.  You just do the best to hide them.  After I do a side and get a good layer of paint on it.  I go back and go over it top to bottom with as few passes as possible to cover the whole side.  This helps at least get them all going in the same direction and I think helps in the drying. 

Like I said it is not a perfect finish, but once it is done and in place, it will be more than good enough.

cmoses:
Well I went out this morning to do some sanding and apply a second coat of paint.  I got the cab out of the garage and into some sunlight and was not all that pleased with the finish.  This was a MKII game originally that had been converted to a NFL Blitz '99.  Well when they converted it they just painted over the original vinyl artwork.  I fixed some bad spots and filled some holes then sanded it all down and it seemed pretty good, until I took a good look this morning.  The major issue was the edges of the cab.  A lot of the vinyl had been peeled off or damaged around the edges, so even though I tried to smooth it out it was pretty noticeable.

So I either did the smartest or dumbest thing, I decided to remove all the vinyl.  I started in one of the bad corners where there was a lot missing and using a spackling knife I just started to work on it.  Well needless to say it took some effort to get it all off, but I did.  I then had a nice bare cabinet.  The sides of the cabinet are particle board and the front is plywood. 

After I got all the vinyl off I sanded it down real well and did a little more patching.  I then got out my tinted primer from my first project and applied a nice layer to the outside of the cabinet.  The particle board really soaked up the paint. 

I hope to do some sanding and more painting tomorrow.  I hope this was a good decision, I just know that it will mean more work in the long run, to get the surface smooth.

JayB:
That's the same process I did. Thought I could clean up the body and then ended up stripping the vinyl off down to the bare wood. Same Midway cabinet as well  :laugh2:

If you want a smooth surface be prepared as it will take a lot of coats and sanding to get the particle board looking like smooth mdf. I did many coats before going full steam and heavy rollering on 2 very very thick coats and then sanding right back down. I found you could see small dimples here and there and the two heavy, almost stippled, coats really got rid of almost all of them by the time it was sanded back down.

In a word, particle board is a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- to work with but, stick with it as you can get it smooth with a bit of elbow grease  :cheers: 

 

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