Tag: space mission
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More block sanding on Space Mission
Knocked down all the raised spots from overfilling valleys. It is hard work, and I’m thankful that I am not doing another round of fills. There are very small imperfections here and there, but in this case with my tools and novice skills I know that perfect will be the enemy of good. Two more…
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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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Block sanding and stripe painting
Block sanded the first coat of clear on Space Mission. It’s pretty nerve racking to sand away at the surface I have so meticulously touched up over the past weeks. I stopped several times to wipe down with naptha to make sure I wasn’t cutting into paint. I think I could have gone down further…
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Weekend Progress
Managed to get quite a lot done over the weekend with varying degrees of success. On Sunday afternoon my two oldest boys helped out and that was awesome. Taxi: Z helped me clean and start putting back together Taxi. We switched out some star posts, vacuumed, cleaned, switched out bulbs, and put back all of the…
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Finished painting Space Mission
Finished all touch up restoration painting on the playfield. As you can see in the before and after, it’s a pretty dramatic change. It’s not perfect by any stretch but damn it’s good. Next up for this one is leveling the inserts and clear coating. Should be an adventure.
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Space Mission playfield touch-ups
Progress over the last week has been slow, but i finished the blue touch ups for Space Mission and painted yellow stencils on the Big Guns backbox. Again the stencils peeled off a lot of paint but that’s ok because I expected it and plan to finish the same way I did the cab. For…
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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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Productive night
My original plan was to empty the tumbler and touch up some more of the Space Mission playfield, but the weather was so great with very little breeze so I had to paint the black on the cabinet. It’ll need to cure for at least a week, and then I can do the yellow and…