Here’s a bit of an update on my Dracula backglass restore. I’ve been slack with it lately, just doing little bits and pieces here and there on the glass.. haven’t been real motivated to do anything much to it until a couple of days ago.
I’ve been working on some of the light up lettering that has damage/ flaking of the paint on them.. namely the GAME OVER, and the HIGH GAME TO DATE sections.
As can be seen in the 1st and 2nd pic the GAME OVER has some paint missing in a couple of letters. First thing I did was to carefully airbrush in the missing paint, using the same acrylic “centre red” colour I used for the name lettering. With a light behind the glass to help with matching of the translucency, I air brushed in the red being careful not to get too much paint on the surrounding paint.. VERY tricky to do, and it took me a few goes to get it looking “decent” as I like to say about doing this type of thing. Once I was happy with the paint thickness and translucency I then sprayed on some acrylic white primer to help even out the light shining through it, and to brighten the paint a bit.
Next thing I did was to spray on some silver to block out the light where it wasn’t wanted. I used sheets of paper as stencils to mask off the top and bottom of the letters (masked top first and sprayed, then the bottom after the top had dried).
Then I used a combination of stencil and hand painting to repair the silver mask on the V, E and R on the word OVER. 3rd pic below shows the work done. The vertical line is the gap between the E and R, which I sprayed in, the rest was done by hand with a brush. I’ll spray some more silver around the rest of this later on to tidy it up a bit.
Last pic shows end result, backlit. Not perfect I know, but MUCH better than how it originally looked!!
