Acrylic Colours
Thursday, December 31st, 2009I bought a set of 18 acrylic airbrush colours on eBay today at a bargain price. Maybe these will help me in my touch-up endeavours:
I bought a set of 18 acrylic airbrush colours on eBay today at a bargain price. Maybe these will help me in my touch-up endeavours:
I bought a Hansa Aero Pro Airbrush set on eBay today to help me with my touch ups:
I actually got around to airbrushing my The Power insert today!
Having cut out the mask for the orange ring on my CraftRobo plotter and transfered it to the playfield, I was ready to go:
So I covered the exposed areas of the playfield with newspaper and then sprayed on an undercoat of acrylic white paint, followed by a layer of orange acrylic paint (which had been made up from a mixture of orange, white and fluorescent yellow paints):
Having completed the ring, it now stands quite proud of the playfield. In fact it feels nearly as high as the mylar! There are three contributing factors to this:
So I’m sorely tempted to try again to see if I can improve the results…
Following a recent posting in RGP, I came accross a great tool on the internet for scanning in areas of playfields to get them on the computer both in the correct size and in the right perspective. So I thought I’d use this tool to generate my first mask, which I would cut on my recently acquired Craft-Robo plotter So it was off to http://tools.reelpinball.com/ to download the photo grid.
Now it was my intention to use this methodology to airbrush the ring around The Power insert, so I cut out a window from the grid and laid it over the power insert of my recently acquired IPB playfield:
I loaded this picture into Photoshop and cut out a section exactly 3.5 inches by 3.5 inches (as the photo grid is marked in inches) and corrected both the size and perspective:
The contrast of the orange to the black inner ring and the surrounding yellow colour was high enough to allow me to easily extract the orange ring from this photo:
Now this would have made a good mask for The Power ring if the edges of my original insert hadn’t been so damaged. Therefore in order to make sure I covered all of these damaged areas around the original insert, I made the mask a little thicker:
This is the mask I intend to use to airbrush on my The Power ring