And here in these pics is the BAD part, that had me stumped as to what to do with this glass, and what nearly caused me to scrap the whole project. Normally I wouldn’t have been scared by this, but look at all of the fine black and purple detail in Mr Universe’s (for want of a better name for him) body, arms & legs. It was the thought of trying to replicate all of this that had me scared. Normally with flaking backglass paint I just remove it all and spray in a close matching colour. But “what the hell do I do with THIS?” I was thinking.

The thought of sitting there and hand painting in this detail just didn’t bear thinking about, but I thought to myself ‘what if I scan or get pics of this area of the glass, and repair it in photostudio and just make decals’??? well that is exactly what I ended up doing! Sure it still ended up being a monumental task, and an INSANE amount of work doing this, even on a PC rather that hand painting, but I was able to make it work.

Some of you will probably think im crazy for attempting this, and maybe I was.. spending something like 30 hours in total in front of the computer just cleaning up the images!! But hey.. what else was I going to do to remedy the situation? As far as I was concerned it was do it or scrap the game. I reckon finding a better glass would’ve been next to impossible.