BACKBOX STENCILLING;

Now that the backbox has had about a week now for the paint to dry, I thought it was time to start redoing the stenciled designs.

To do this I used clear adhesive contact book covering rather that my usual cardboard method, as the stenciled art on this game would’ve been impossible to do with cardboard due to the very clean edges and sharp/fine points of the original paint. Im guessing that on these Zac games must’ve had some kind of adhesive stencil used in the factory?

Anyway after some experimentation I found the best way to do this was to place the contact straight onto the sides (a real pain to do without getting too many air bubbles btw!!), place a few sheets of carbon paper over the contact and taped the tracings of the art I’d done previously over the top of the contact and carbon paper. Then I simply traced the art onto the contact with a pen and ruler (1st pic). Worked a treat!

2nd pic shows the backbox with the traced on artwork ready to be cut out with a sharp scalpel and a ruler. First I cut out the sections that were to be sprayed red.

Before any colour was sprayed on I sprayed on some basecoat colour to seal the edges and help prevent paint bleed (this tip was picked up on a resto thread here, cant remember who originally posted it though). I allowed about half an hour for this to dry before spraying on the red, in two coats (3rd pic) not too heavy.. just enough to cover and not be see through anywhere. After allowing the red to become touch dry (about 30 minutes) I cut out the sections of contact for the blue, and masked off the red sections. As an added precaution, I placed some strips of 1 inch thick strips of wood on the cab to keep the newspaper from touching the red, and sticking to it.. yes I’ve done silly things like that before, and I wasn’t taking any chances. Most sane people would wait a day or so for the paint to fully dry before doing the next colour but I’m not most people.. lol … patient bugger aren’t I?