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Sanded nice an level now.you would never know all the inserts had been removed.
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Touch ups begin.It isn't that it needs a whole lot of them but I want the art around the inserts and all borders to be pre
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The worst part of it is that there is no way to do all of the borders at once.The sides run together in too many places so
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Painted.
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Next side masked.
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Next side painted.
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Same process on the lowers.Masked.
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Painted.
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I am going to do the entire black section around the the inserts towards the left loop.
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Circles are tough to do so I will rely on the insert decals for perfection there I do have them done very close though.
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Clear is applied.It is still wet in this picture but the next move after a full cure will be to rework this coat in order t
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Clear is ready to sand with an extremely fine grit.The playfield is probably more level now than it ever was.
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Clear has been sanded I will let it set opened(clear sanded to let final evaporation of solvents) then start applying the
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Playfield has cured.Time to install the insert decals.
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First step since is to wipe it down thoroughly with alcohol.
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Now it gets tacked off to make sure no dust or lint gets trapped under the decals.
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Took a while but all the decals are in place.This was a tough one because there are so many and some are duplicates but wr
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After a light coat of clear to hold it all down I will do some final tweaks to the borders and art before doing the final c
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A barrier coat of clear has been applied to help set the decals and give a little foundation to do some final touch ups to.
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the edges of the decals will be very easy to see at this point because I am not going to try to bury them with thick coats
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Playfield is ready to sand again.
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Sanded.
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I am not going to repaint the shooter lane but I am going to blow a very transparent coat of wood tone over the spot where
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Lightly blown over,Still wet in the picture but if you expand it you will see that the natural grain is still visible.
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I was hoping to finish up the borders prior to reclearing but the level just isn't quite where I want it to be yet so I wil
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Cleared again.
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The inserts edges are just about gone.They have a very slight rounding that should easily level out with another sanding.At
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Shooter lane looks great.Now that there is some protection over the area I needed to cover I can resand the lane and get th
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Playfield is ready ot sand down to get the correct level prior to doing the final touch ups.
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Playfield has been thoroghly level starting out with a very coarse grit machine sanding workng up to a very fine grit.
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A very bright light is placed under the playfield in a n effort to find any breaks in the borders that may not be noticab
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a transparent paper is in place and the light gaps will be cut out and refinished.
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