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Xenon - partial restore

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pbj:
You will find Xenon to be very unforgiving to bad touch up.

I've done some touchup on games that was decent and never bothered clear coating it.  Paint still holding 12 years later. 

Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: pbj on October 11, 2017, 11:19:04 am ---You will find Xenon to be very unforgiving to bad touch up.

I've done some touchup on games that was decent and never bothered clear coating it.  Paint still holding 12 years later.

--- End quote ---

Are you talking unforgiving because of the style of art or because of the type of paints etc Bally was using at the time? If art, I'm with ya, it's a beast. If materials I'm not tracking anything special I need to be aware of.

pbj:
The style of art.  Best of luck.

jennifer:
   That's not paint, it is ink, pantone makes color matching chip sets.

Le Chuck:
Was able to spend some hours on this today. Made some good progress but really need to go back over everything I've done and tighten it up.  Minor frustration this evening, I didn't have any cadmium red - and you can't mix to a red you don't have so I was out of luck. I've been able to do color match batches on all the other PF colors tho (I borked up the white, so need to redo the "N"). Wifey says she'll pick up some cad red for me tomorrow so that's not too bad.   


Spent a lot of time on the lower PF. I'm pleased with the girl but need to redo the lines, I've got a bit of a slope on them and they are still too thick. Easy to fix with some black paint. I've been experimenting with loading up fine tip calligraphy pens with acrylic to do some fine line work but keep defaulting back to small brushes where I'm more comfortable. Still to do is the lettering and the red outline for the arrow but as I'm out of red I'll wait to clean up the arrow. I'm tired anyway.


Process picture. I like to use tracing paper, that way I can get the reference size right from the PF then bring the paper to the computer, size it on screen to match, and finish the trace. Then I tape it down to the PF and slide some carbon paper/graphite paper underneath and lay down my outline. I don't know how other folks go about it but this way seems quick and easy.


Here's where I'm at so far. I've done all the inserts and lot of the black fields, started to clean up the upper playfield too. Need to finish up the black fields and freshen the white. I think I'm going to go straight titanium white on the white zones to increase reflection. Xenon is such a dark game that the GIs need all the help they can get, and those areas don't show anyway so it shouldn't look too crazy. Of course there is a ton more touch up, pitted areas, post holes, and other stuff to fix, but I feel like I'm off to a good start...gotta fix that N tho, waaaaay too bright.

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