Now for the HIGH GAME TO DATE section.
Look at the first pic, showing the backside of the glass lit from the front.. showing just how bad this area was!! And to make matters worse, it too was sprayed with red paint just like the rest of the art!!! I still can’t believe the idiotic things some people do!!!
At one point I almost considered just painting this a solid colour and pulling the globes out from behind and leaving it at that. But when I was looking thru my shelf of spraypaints, I noticed a can of acrylic paint in a colour called blaze blue. I sprayed a bit onto the front of the glass, and would you believe it… it was a pretty good match straight outta the can!!
A bold plan immediately started to form in my mind, scan the lettering from the back, clean off the glass in this area, spray on some blaze blue and create a decal to replace the lettering!!
First thing I did was to scan the back of the glass in this area. 2nd pic shows how I did it, placing a light underneath so the scanner would pick up the area properly. I removed the scanner lid and placed it onto the backglass. I always scan everything at 300dpi when doing this kind of thing. Once I had it scanned into my PC, I cleaned up the image in photostudio, making the background black, and the letters clear (white, prints clear onto the clear adhesive label I use). 3rd pic shows a test print done onto normal A4 paper. Notice I’m recreating a “lightning bolt” in the backglass artwork here too.
