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Offline Chuck

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Jungle Queen Restore
« on: January 28, 2010, 02:01:13 PM »
i picked up my first EM and am cleaning it up. I'm trying something i haven't seen anyone do before so I thought I would post some info here. The playfield had some damage that someone touched up. While they didn't do I bad job I thought I could do it better digitally.

Here you can see the pop bumper area that had been touched up and mylared


I shot a photograph of the area and cleaned it up in photoshop. This wasn't the final image (I fixed a couple of minor imperfections.


Then I printed the test image on a transparency to test the fit. The image was slightly askew but the color match was close:


I fixed the skew and it lines up exactly:


I'm going to clearcoat the playfield and then print the images on decal paper and apply them to the clear. Once that's done a few additional coats of clear and it should be good. I'm re-doing all of the flowers, the two areas in front of this dish and probably the lettering in front of the drop targets. I'll post more as it's done.


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Re: Jungle Queen Restore
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2010, 03:45:27 PM »

How cool is that ! Well done Chuck.

Now just remember, you cannot retro fit nucore to an EM, so don't get any ideas  &&

I guess you will be levelling off the area with the touch up, then applying the clearcoat ?

What will you be using for the CC process ?
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Re: Jungle Queen Restore
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2010, 12:53:27 PM »

How cool is that ! Well done Chuck.

Now just remember, you cannot retro fit nucore to an EM, so don't get any ideas  &&

I guess you will be levelling off the area with the touch up, then applying the clearcoat ?

What will you be using for the CC process ?

varathane. applying a few base coats to level inserts and wear. Then I sand it smooth, apply the decals, and final clear.