Tag: playfield
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Clear coating Space Mission
I haven’t been doing anything out in the garage but playing Surf Champ since I fixed it. Last week I broke that habit and put on my nitrile gloves and my respirator and rolled the second to last coat of clear on. Put the final coat on tonight. I know that it won’t be completely…
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Another roll
Rolled another coat of clear on Space Mission. At this point I’m extremely confident that this is going to turn out well. I still have some valleys to fill, but i think one more dropper round and two more roll coats will do it. It’s already flatter and more perfect than most of the playfields…
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I’m still sanding
Spent about two hours block sanding this playfield after dropper filling valleys and a coat of clear. It’s NEARLY flat, but i managed to sand off a bit of paint in one area (damn!) but i think it’s mostly hidden during game play so i may just leave that. It’s really tough to get these…
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Sad sad Taxi playfield
A few really terrible areas on the playfield. Not even sure what I’m going to do with this playfield. Clean first and reassess.
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Space Mission touch-ups: blue
Started touching up the blue tonight. Managed to get it matched almost exactly and got ¾ of the playfield done. In the picture above the left side isn’t done and the right is. I’m doing all the planking, pits, and wear so there’s a ton of ground to cover but holy crap it’s gonna be…
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Space Mission touch ups: teal complete
Wasn’t planning on it but it was so nice outside so I decided to do a bit more painting. When I do it at night I have to shut the door because the spotlight attracts bugs. Turned out great, but there are two more colors left to touch up, and then probably black a bit.…
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Touched up some red paint
Spent some time carefully touching up some of the worst wear spots on Space Mission. Red was standing out the worst so I started in some hidden spots and kept going. I should be using an airbrush but my experience as a painter helps me out. It’s not like I can make this playfield worse!…
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Alcohol and magic eraser
With previous playfields I haven’t found much success with this method, but it sure worked on Space Mission. It pulled up tons of metal filing dust that was hanging out in the cracks where the board is planking. Very excited. As you can see, there is so much wear around the super bonus advance and…
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Cleaning the Space Mission playfield
Tonight I thoroughly cleaned the Space Mission playfield with naphtha and a microfiber towel. This playfield has a lot of wear. Clearly the previous owner played with a pitted rusty ball for many years and there was very little wax to clean up so it has been unprotected for a long time. I’m not sure…