Stern Wild Fyre

[mildflame]

  My dad and I have been working on a Stern Wild Fyre for about a year and 3 months going by my photos and have still not finished! It is about 50% done and have found challenges that may be helpful to some and I am finding some interesting ways to really make it special and just need to share it with you and hopfully you can help me out a bit too. So I will now show you some pics of my first look! 

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at this time I was experimenting with photoshop to fix a previous playfield (Strikes n Spares) and mastered photoshop (took me a while but I just kept trying and playing around with photos) didnt succeed to well with waterslides but did rush the proccess

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so we tried tracing the playfield on baking paper to scan into photoshop and didn't do to well

[Boots]

at this time I was experimenting with photoshop to fix a previous playfield (Strikes n Spares) and mastered photoshop (took me a while but I just kept trying and playing around with photos) didnt succeed to well with waterslides but did rush the proccess

I was thinking of doing the same thing with waterslide decals for the Gottlieb Aquarius I have recently picked up.
Like to know how you go with this one.

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so I went to a sign writer in my local area with pictures of the playfield to ask him if he could print out an overlay. he said he would give it a try so my dad and I srripped the playfield bare

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meanwhile I had the job to rebuild the door, That meant it needed dismantling and derusting as well as repainting! for the rust I used Rustbuster.

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Before painting the door I buffed it with windex and wet and dry sand paper to get of anything left and smooth the surface.
I slowly painted everything.

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I then started putting back together the door.
and thats the door. PS. If anyone has a coin eject rod for stern that is missing from my door could you please let me know. I can't find one anywhere. Thanx

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the playfeild didn't come home until 6 months at the sign writers, Oh it was untouched. Turns out it was too hard to do. soo I was all on my own, and then I remembered Photoshop and how I put a peice of paper over my strikes n spare and thought I dont need to water slide! I can use stickers! so I got my scanner and took off the lid layed the playfield on the scanner (my scanner was part of my printer so that made it hard because there was a lip so I could only scan the edjes and not the middle but I decided to try scanning it directly and using photoshop. I will show you some low res scans I did and my sticker being worked on in photoshop. I will show you the rest next weekend as i need to take more photos!

[mildflame]

So I have now printed two stickers on plain printing paper, (nothing special) to see how i'm going. When I finish all work on photoshop I will print all work on adhesive gloss/clear paper. here are some photos on how the process is coming along!

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I used isocol to get out ballswirl, and do not like it over Isopro as it stinks like a mens room and dosen't contain as much alcohol and therefore doesn't get as much dirt out as easy as I would like!,
Please note that the colours of the stickers are ritcher when printing on less absorbent paper like gloss and what I will finally use!

[goodolddays]

Your putting a lot of work in there . Be interesting to see how it turns out

[Strangeways]

Looks interesting - I admire your persistence ! Keep the updates coming.

I guess that when completed, you will be installing a sheet of mylar over the entire playfield ?

[mildflame]

Looks interesting - I admire your persistence ! Keep the updates coming.

I guess that when completed, you will be installing a sheet of mylar over the entire playfield ?

I will definatly NOT put mylar over the playfield because I have got an air compressor that my dad has bought to clear coat the playfield to secure and presurve everything! also to give it a shine and level! 

[ddstoys]

Keep up the good work Mitch