Backglass Restore: After reading SPURR’s post this afternoon in this thread re airbrushing on this glass I decided to give it a try. As I said, it had crossed my mind to try it but I was initially iffy about doing so.. until now.
So I spent a few hours this afternoon and here are the results so far, half way thru respraying the name. I ended up using a spray can rather than airbrushing, as I had this on hand and the colour was a reasonably close match. It’s the same colour red I used on the playfield restore.
I started out by removing the old cracked ink, first, with a scalpel I cut into the ink along the key lines (actually reflective material in this section), I heated the blade with a cigarette lighter so it would cut cleanly and not to chip the surrounding areas. I set up a light underneath, as can be seen in the 1st pic so I could see where to cut/scrape to. I worked on one letter at a time, scraping out the old ink, cleaning it then painting before going onto the next letter. As can be seen in the 1st pic I’m working on the “C”, the U, L and A have been done already.
Once all the ink was removed I carefully cleaned the glass with some Windex and cloth, being careful not to touch the surrounding area as much as possible. 2nd pic was taken before cleaning.
Oh btw... the red paint overspray that can be seen all around the cleaned glass was NOT put there by me!! That was someone elses Dodgey Bros attempt to save the glass!!
After that I marked and cut out a paper stencil so I could spray the letter without getting overspray everywhere. I cut these stencils slightly larger than the area I was painting, to overlap a little.
