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Atari 4P Football Restoration - More Artwork Panel Restoration...
slasherman:
I like how you spared the original artwork, to many people get rid of it too fast. The more of the original you spare the more original it is... :cheers:
ChadTower:
Awesome.
BTW, I have played that Funspot machine with my kids a few times. Great machine.
Superully:
--- Quote from: RetroACTIVE on September 17, 2009, 08:59:31 pm ---So I started to work on the artwork restoration... the edges of this panel were all frayed, crumbly and peeling. I decided to cut the white off so I used an exacto knife and cut the white very close to the black outline. I then masked the artwork with painters tape and newspaper. After some sanding and bondo application to fix the damaged edges, I put 4 coats of Rustoleum white semi sanding with 400 grit sandpaper in between coats. It looks very very good.
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what type of painter's tape did you use? flexible one? or did you cut normal one to fit the curves? masking this thing off must have been a strenuous job!
RetroACTIVE:
--- Quote from: Superully on September 26, 2009, 04:41:01 am ---what type of painter's tape did you use? flexible one? or did you cut normal one to fit the curves? masking this thing off must have been a strenuous job!
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Actually I just used blue painters tape... its pretty flexible... not so strenuous. There are better products for masking that leave less of a ridge. I find that the ridge is not really that big of a deal anyway... I'll take it to the peeling edges.
I've almost all of the artwork touched up now... there were a couple of real big gouges, one along the qb's arm and another across the rb's face. I had to cut away the damaged vinyl fill in the area then recreate the artwork by hand... I have a few pics I will post soon showing that process.
RetroACTIVE:
Here are the shots of more of the repair...
Initial damage:
I cut away the damaged artwork and picked the particle board removing loose pieces...
I used a small amount of bondo to fill the void and used a plexiglass press to get it to conform to the surface... once the stuff was just about cured I was able to lift the plexiglass and it removed only the excess that was not filling the void...
I used a thin coat of white to cover the newly patched pieces to give it the right base color for the application of the top coat and to smooth things out... I did lightly sand with 400 grit prior to applying the white.
Here is the semi-finished product... I hand painted it using a small brush and using pictures and the other panel as reference. I have some white touch up light orange and blue to do just yet... I'm not looking for perfection here... I just don't want anything peeling away.
I am pleased so far.
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