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Offline Brettski

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Re: Solar City Project
« on: August 01, 2016, 10:20:40 PM »
Thanks everyone for your comments and encouragement!

Last night I repaired the issues with the back glass and today I speckled the cabinet ready for the stencils.

The backglass had repairs done by the previous owner, the translucent blue is around the castle thingy had flaked out and it had been painted in but once backlit it looked terrible. The previous owner tried using blue led's but they look crap too so I blocked out all the blue translucent using black over it and the results are quite good. Purists would object but what I had to work with left me no choice. I tried removing the touch up paint but started to remove the good paint so it was not possible. Anyhow if you didn't know or had nothing to compare it to it is quite acceptable.

It came fitted out with LED's which I didn't like so I DeLeded it!, looks much better as I just don't like EM's with LED lights. I have used them in under playfield inserts on Charlie's Angels but that's my limit.

I also started working on the stencil graphics (see pic below)
Not much left now, cabinet stenciling and new plastics and it is almost done.

I am going to try a different approach with my stencils this time, usually I trace it to a big sheet of vinyl but this time I am going to use A3 Laminating Pouches!
I have created stencils before from laminating pouches but not on pinball machines so I will see how it goes but feel quite confident I will get good results.

Cheers: Brettski... :)
« Last Edit: August 01, 2016, 10:33:09 PM by Brettski »