Backglass re-touching (Firepower)
Jocoloco
Today I just got my new repro backlgass from Mayfair and it looks FANTASTIC.
Steve Engel at Mayfair, you are THE man! Anyhow, I thought of taking the old
backlgass and trying to personally touch it up. I'm sure this was discussed to
death before so I'm sorry if I repeat it again.
What kind of paint/acrylic/oil should be used so the paint doesn't darken the
lighting from behind? What machines would be best used and has anybody tinkered
with this before? Alan Meyer or anybody with silk screening experience and the
like, give me some advice on what to use with simple tools and paints for good
results.
Thanks!
-Joel Cohen
DreamZ2048
>lighting from behind? What machines would be best used and has anybody
>tinkered
>with this before? Alan Meyer or anybody with silk screening experience and
>the
>like, give me some advice on what to use with simple tools and paints for
>good
>results.
>
re-touching. Im afraid though that if the messed up areas are in the "lit"
areas, you are pretty well screwed, you will never got those areas right.
The "unlit" areas you can re-touch them and you will have good results however.
Still waiting for MY Firepower !
Marcel
John Robertson
http://www.flippers.com/restore.html written by the queen of
restorations, Barb Midtdal, our artist almost in residence...
John :-#)#
On 12 Mar 1999 23:46:12 GMT, joco...@aol.com (Jocoloco) wrote:
>Hey,
>
>Today I just got my new repro backlgass from Mayfair and it looks FANTASTIC.
>Steve Engel at Mayfair, you are THE man! Anyhow, I thought of taking the old
>backlgass and trying to personally touch it up. I'm sure this was discussed to
>death before so I'm sorry if I repeat it again.
>
>What kind of paint/acrylic/oil should be used so the paint doesn't darken the
>lighting from behind? What machines would be best used and has anybody tinkered
>with this before? Alan Meyer or anybody with silk screening experience and the
>like, give me some advice on what to use with simple tools and paints for good
>results.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Joel Cohen
David Gersic
>Steve Engel at Mayfair, you are THE man! Anyhow, I thought of taking the old
>backlgass and trying to personally touch it up. I'm sure this was discussed to
>death before so I'm sorry if I repeat it again.
Yep, it's been done. You'll find some on http://www.marvin3m.com/fix.htm
>What kind of paint/acrylic/oil should be used so the paint doesn't darken the
>lighting from behind?
It will. I've been playing with some scrap glass for a while, and it's
possible to match the colour, but I have not been able to match the
translucency.
You can use artists acrylic paint, thinned with acrylic gloss medium and
water. I had trouble getting this to stick to the glass, initially, but if
you first put down a coat of slightly thinned gloss medium, it will stick.
The "glaze" of paint/medium/water will allow light through, but it won't
match the original ink.
If you are trying to do only a small area, it's probably not going to work.
What might work is chipping back to the borders of the area, so that you're
not trying to match the translucence of the ink.
>What machines would be best used and has anybody tinkered with this
>before?
If you have a small airbrush, that would probably help apply the paint more
evenly, which would definitly help the end result. A brush works, but even
thinned, there are still some brushmarks.
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