{"id":699,"date":"2009-12-15T23:19:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T21:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:35","slug":"airbrushing-the-orange-ring-around-the-power-insert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Airbrushing the orange ring around The Power insert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually got around to airbrushing my The Power insert today!<\/p>\n<p>Having cut out the mask for the orange ring on my CraftRobo plotter and transfered it to the playfield, I was ready to go:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_701\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-701\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-701\" title=\"IMG_1707\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1707-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1707-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1707.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mask applied to The Power insert<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_700\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-700\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-700\" title=\"IMG_1712\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1712-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1712-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1712.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Power insert, finally completed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0The white undercoat (which is necessary to brighten up the orange) means there are a total of two layers<\/li>\n<li>I used my cheapo airbrush (with compressed air in a can) limiting my control of paint flow<\/li>\n<li>This was my first ever airbrushing of a playfield<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So I&#8217;m sorely tempted to try again to see if I can improve the results&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}