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All Mylar and glue is removed.During that process many of the previously /poorly touched up areas and typical wear become m
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The lower will need a good deal of rework.This seems to be a typical wear area on POTO from the others I have seen recentl
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More wear and paint loss.
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Same issues other side.
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Lots of little things in terms of wear.Pretty much anything high traffic but not Mylared shows problems or wear.
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There is some crazing in the inserts.Nothing can be done about that because this is not a gmae that has many options av
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More insert wear and crazing.
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Center hole will need some fill but it is not too bad off.
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Heavy wear at the upper entrance.
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Heavy wear at the jet bumpers.
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This area was completely filled with bondo.I am not sure exactly why but I think it was to compensate for a mechanical o
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Wear at the upper lanes.
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Shooter lane should sand up nicely.
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Shooter lane sanded clean.
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Smoothing of the previous repair.
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Ready for a first coat of clear.This is done to seal what is there up and give a base to work off of without creating furt
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First clear applied.
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After a few days cure I will sand and begin the repaints.It is going to be a very tough project but the good part is that
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Ready to sand and begin repaints.
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Sanded.
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I am going to start on the gold first.I won't be able to repaint it all because the art is too busy to properly mask the d
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Gold is sprayed.
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Gold rings are supposed to be around the jet bumper holes so that was roughed in during the process.
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Next I will hit the white area under the slings and rough in the natural wood at the switch cot outs.
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White and wood tones are sprayed.
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Unmasked.Still have a bit of work ahead of me but I roughed in some of the black detail in the gold and this is a good poin
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Cleared for the second time.
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I still have some detail work to do under the phantom mask etc but it is starting to take shape.
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After a few days cure I will sand and do the next round of repaints.
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Sanded and ready for more.
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I am going to start trying to pull this thing to a respectable level with some of the black details.Perfection is not going
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Ready for another clear.At that point the level should really be there along with the ground work so I can finish it out
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Cleared and getting much closer.
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Sanded and ready for some more repaints.
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I have put the detail back in the gold area below the mask as well as possible.
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Sharpening up some of the details in gold.
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Refreshing the wood tones.
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Some minor reworks.
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