Restoring/touching up a marquee?

[zerojosh]

I have an original Ms. Pacman marquee that has a few small scratches/holes in the paint which become very obvious once the lights are on behind it.  Is it possible to simply match the color and then use to paint to cover up the scratches?  Will light shine through the same or will it be obvious?  Any recommendations on paint?

Thanks guys!!!

[sean-o-mac]

If you care so much about the light shining through, why not just download one from vectorlib and have mamemarquees.com print one out brand new for $20?

[zerojosh]

It is an original Marquee so if it is possible I'd like to keep it that way.

[SavannahLion]

Not really. I looked into it a while back.

Most paint is designed to be opaque. The inks on a marquee is meant to diffuse the light.

I experimented a little bit with single sheet of paper to diffuse the light even further, that showed some promise. Especially for "dots" of light.

I was at an art gallery and noticed how rich some of the water color paintings are. I realized, that with a sheet of paper, one could probably use water colors on the paper and feather the colors. I'm not very artistic though and I really haven't gotten around to experimenting.

I don't know if it's still sold, but Testers used to sell translucent colors, both in the small 1/2(?) oz bottle and in the spray can. I bought five or six of these just before I quit modeling. I imagine with a layer of Triple Thick and careful mixing and application of the translucent paints, one could match and blend the colors on the marquee. But that's a lot more tedious than the paper trick above and a lot less room for error.

Last I checked, I read of one report of someone successfully matching the paints on the marquee (for a pin) but they were pin holes and I don't believe there was a back light. I could be wrong about that though. I find something new everytime I look at someones projects.

[DUst]

Hi

I''ve same problem, i used some glass ink on those small holes but the result was total disaster.

How many colours do u need?

Thanlks

[SavannahLion]

Hi

I''ve same problem, i used some glass ink on those small holes but the result was total disaster.

How many colours do u need?

Thanlks

Your question is really vague. Are you trying to sell someone your colors or are you asking how many colors one needs to repair a marquee?

[DUst]

Hi,

It's was for repair a marquee..  , My question was how many colour it needed for reparing the marquee. In my case it was need 4 colour.

I try to google it about painting glass with ink, it's very dificult find tutorial, i saw a guy using stencil, but i'm new, i don't how it works, for glass. Is there altenative way?

Thanks