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Wanted Williams Time Warp Backglass
- Thread starter ronnie63
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Still might bust the budget but Coos in Europe does it
Thanks, Don't see any prices but guess it will be high, The machine will never be worthy of the cost!
No Chris it's not been touched, I thought about that but backlit glass is hard to restore without it looking patchy!
Aye some are better than others, maybe still worth a try, not tried it myself.
I have a can of triple thick if you want it also have a large selection of acrylics paints you can borrow if you do think about touchups.
Chris
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Thanks Chris, I guess either way it's worth stopping the glass getting any worse. I might grab that off you, I remeber using it years ago on Mr and Mrs pacman and it seals it good.
Cheers Ronnie
With some patience that glass could be greatly improved to at least "acceptable", I followed this general approach with one far worse;
Solid acrylic, silver backed over opaque areas, suitable theatre gel behind translucent damage. The key is matching the acrylic as best you can and colour match dry, wipe off until you're happy with the result.
Solid acrylic, silver backed over opaque areas, suitable theatre gel behind translucent damage. The key is matching the acrylic as best you can and colour match dry, wipe off until you're happy with the result.
With some patience that glass could be greatly improved to at least "acceptable", I followed this general approach with one far worse;
Solid acrylic, silver backed over opaque areas, suitable theatre gel behind translucent damage. The key is matching the acrylic as best you can and colour match dry, wipe off until you're happy with the result.
That's a great guide but the lit areas (translucent) are the problem!
Prelimary Analysis: Should you attempt fixing the Translucent areas?
For the most part, I would say "no" to this question. The non-silvered (or non-black) areas of a blackglass are the hardest (by far) to touch up. These are the areas that allow light to pass through them. If you can help it, leave these alone! Since these areas allow light to pass through, if the repair paint you apply isn't the same translucency, the repair area will stick out like a sore thumb (even if the color match is perfect). It doesn't matter how well you match the color, you also have to match the translucency too. This is extremely difficult! For this reason, do not touch up the translucent areas of a backglass. To minimize any obvious ink/paint delamination from these backglass areas, remove some of the backglass #47 light bulbs from the backbox that light these areas.
Yeah exactly, that's why I'd mount theatre gel "shapes" behind those, the yellow triangles at the top and green areas for example. It dulls down the damage.
Theatre gel? is that coloured translucant plastic? Like overlays on old video game screens?
Yeah, on Ebay there was an assortment which I can't find, but something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151007461217
So for example, the text at the top, fill in the gaps in the letters with a suitable block colour (easy if black), then affix a triangle of yellow theatre gel behind, which can overlap onto solid areas.
You can use theatre gel to change colour of orange DMDs too, red in particular works well.