Alrighty then!! I’m really on the home stretch with this PF now! The lettering stencils arrived yesterday that Gavin made for me.. thanks mate.
So soon as got home from work I made a start on getting the missing lettering done.
First though, I decided to buy myself an airbrush to do this. Being so small and fine there was NO WAY I was going to attempt to do this with spray cans. So during my lunch hour yesterday I went to my local hobby shop and bought an airbrush and small compressor.
Believe it or not, I actually attempted the smaller and harder to do “shoot again when lit “ first! As this area was ready to go. After carefully aligning and applying the stencil, and masking off the surrounding areas I fired up the compressor and loaded up the airbrush with black acrylic paint. I used the same auto acrylic I did the spray touchups with.. spraying the paint straight into the glass jar for the airbrush, thus no mixing thinners into the paint was needed. Then after a practice run to get used to the airbrush first (I’d never used one before), I sprayed the black on in several very light coats, let the paint dry a bit for about 5 minutes before removing the stencil.
1st pic show the black lettering done… my digital camera batteries were flat at this time so I only have the end result pic of this part.
Next few pics show the progress of the white “advance bonus” lettering. When test aligning this stencil I discovered I’d stuffed up ever so slightly with the size of the purple area where the stencil was to go, making it necessary to mask off and redo this section
So it was out with the clear contact and craft knife with a new blade, I spent a couple of hours last night fixing this, so it would be ready to spray on the lettering this morning. 2nd 3rd and 4th pics show the progress. Lettering still was slightly tall for this area, so I trimmed a small section from the stencil between the two words and carefully aligned and butted together so that they’d fit better.
