As with all cabinet restorations I have done, first order of the day was now to create the stencils for the machine. But, unlike all previous resprays I have done, Skateball was going to be done a bit differently. The “rainbow” red and orange stripes were effectively going to be done entirely with blue painters tape. I wanted to create a uniform gap between the stripes throughout, and knew that lining up the red and orange stencils for this outcome was going to be very challenging. I then had the thought of using a narrow (ie. about 5mm wide) strip of painters tape as the edge of each stripe. The locations of all stripes had to be recorded, so I did effectively make a stencil to later be able to locate where the stripes should be, but used the tape as the mask for spraying. More on this later.
The skateboarder had to be fully stenciled, as per the usual approach. So, prior to sanding down the cabinet, all stencils were created first.
Here is the stencil for the skateboarder.
Then cut out with xacto knife.
Then verified against the original artwork.
After the stencils were created, the cabinet could then be filled and sanded. Here’s the main cabinet before sanding.
And after sanding.
After the main cabinet was primed and base colour applied, here’s an image of it standing next to the original backbox. I was pretty happy with the depth of the base colour.
