FANTASTIC job mate that looks so good, so the paint you used was just sample pots from a paint store? is that correct.
Ian
Greetings Ian,
For this first attempt I bought top of the range colours from a craft store but matching colours was difficult, especially seeing as I'm colour-blind
, family had to help me a lot there with the mixing. I also did the same for my second restoration which was my "Drop-A-Card".
When I came to do my third "Bowl-O", it was then that I hit on the idea that an actual paint store was the go. Many of them do computer matching these days and so it was identical to the original colour. I took the stripped playfield to them (IT MUST BE STRIPPED) and they were able to match the colours. You see, if they matched the colours on the played areas that have been exposed to light, these colours are dulled. The stripped playfield reveals the colours as they were, because these have never seen the light of day or had a ball roll over them where posts and bumpers have been for instance.
A dulux stockist will have small sample pots that they can mix for you. These are traditionally used for people who are decorating homes that want a sample of what the colour will look like in their house, without having committed to the expense of a full room's worth of paint.
These paints are flat acrylic and the top coat is a clear automotive laquer; this dries very hard but is buffable with an automotive wax before reinstalling all the playfield components. BY THE WAY, I dont spend a single cent on pop-bumper Mylars, even if they are only $1.00 a piece. You will find lots of offices and schools carry old overhead projector plastic sheets that they no longer use and are going to chuck them out. Yep, you guessed it! and $1.00 is 8-10 more #47 light globes for your machine
. You will need to cut them out yourself but its a cinch.
I am really pleased with the way BOWL-O is coming up, over the previous two, using these paints.
Hope this helps.
Sandro.
