Fixing up my Skateball

[Seven]

I mentioned in my Meteor thread I was working on a Skateball next.

I have the playfield mostly stripped and I'm currently repainting and touching up. Here are a few before and after pictures of where I am now.

Upper section was missing a bit chunk o' paint.



I've got the basic design down. Needs a bit more fiddling to get it smooth - but I'm getting there.



The middle section had the regular paint wear over skate dudes right arm. Also, skate girl somehow lost her shoe.



I tried hand painting halftone above the guys arm. Looks ok from a distance. Not sure if I'm going to keep it or do something else. Skate girl and I went shoe shopping and found a nice new pair of Nike. I didn't realize until I started painting - they are both wearing Nike shoes.


I've got a bit more to go, but it's getting there.

 

[mwong168]

Looking good and always wanted to play this game but I don't know anyone local that has one. Keep up the good work with all your game restorations.

 

[Menace]

This is the one area of repair that I know is out of my skill set, and I'm always amazed when people can do this sort of work. Once you clear this, do you think the colors will shift at all?

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[Seven]

I don't think it will shift much.

I had to lay the clear thick with Meteor because of the planking. The noticeable area was the black. It got a touch hazy. The reds and oranges and other colours look perfectly fine.

With this machine I'm not going to need nearly as much clear and it mostly light colours.

 

[LOTRbreath]

Looks nice. On the shoe you can't even tell it was touched up!

 

[spiroagnew]

Great job on the touch-up. Did you draw in the design with a pencil first or did you just free-ball it?

 

[Seven]

I pulled a picture of the designs I needed on my tablet, then did a light freehand sketch on the playfield with pencil.

 

[Seven]

Clear is on. It's all buffed and shiny. Time to put it back together.

 

[DRANO]

Looks stellar!

 

[tkaye]

Looks really great! Thanks for sharing your work.