For those of you following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve decided to only part clear-coat my playfield. The reason for this is because I always wanted this renovation to be quick and easy (OK, so it hasn’t been quick, but it’s certainly been a lot more easier than doing a complete playfield clear-coat).<\/p>\n
I’ve also decided to keep the mylar on the playfield – after all it doesn’t look too bad and serves its purpose well and it would also\u00a0be a lot of work taking it off and cleaning up the sticky mess afterwards (apparently).<\/p>\n
In order to proceed therefore, I require mylar protectors so as not to clear-coat the mylars when I clear-coat the playfield – otherwise the mylar would effectively be sealed in to the playfield.<\/p>\n
I started by photographing the two mylar areas to be protected, bordered with\u00a0a measuring frame in order to correct the size and perspective of the resulting photograph:<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Swamp Kickout Mylar<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Electric Chair\/Graveyard Mylar<\/p><\/div>\n
Having then corrected the size and perspective of these photos in Photoshop I imported them into Illustrator and traced around the mylar edge to produce vectors to plot on my CraftRobo plotter\/cutter:<\/p>\n