I just finished shopping out my Bally 'Night Rider'.

The two drop-bank targets were worn as normal, so I thought I would try and get the bullseye's looking a bit more presentable while i had the assy's torn apart for cleaning.

Resulting before/after picture below. A lot better than they were; short of spending $50 or so, for two new hot stamped sets.

Scanned old target into Photoshop, cleaned it up and created a 8x11 sheets of bullseye. (gave the edges of the circles a bit of bevel/shading in Photoshop to help recreate the molded hot-stamp effect)

Printed on Experts-Choice #123, transparent laser decal sheet. (Brother 9340 printer)
Quick shot of Testers Decal Bond.

Cut & slid decal onto cleaned target. (I did NOT try & remove the old paint... figured it would give a deeper color. Plus I used the old paint as reference to line up the new bullseye.)

Once dried, coated decal with MicroScale Micro Sol setting solution. (helps soften & "mold" the decal to the plastic, picking up the hot-stamp ridges)

Determined that the color saturation from the printer just wasn't enough. So once the Micro Sol was dry overnight, I added a second waterslide decal on top of the first. Then (once dry) re-applied another layer of Micro Sol.

After the Micro Sol dried overnight... I shot the drop target heads with a couple of coats of Rustoleum Painters Touch Semi-gloss Crystal Clean to protect the decals from wear.

We'll see over time whether they last.

drops1.jpg

Thanks guys...
Like I said; we'll see how they hold up. I plan on taking this machine to MGC in April... That'll be the real test.

And in fairness... the decal sheets aren't cheap. $2.50 - $3.00 per 8x11. (which you can obviously make a lot of targets, or add other decal graphics to do at the same time)

Also... I had previously bought some black target bullseyes from Pinball Rescue for $5.00 for a set of 6. (have not used them yet, so unsure of how long those last, but they look of good quality)
http://pinballrescue.net/Decals_Stand_Up_Target.html (at the bottom of page)

They should... You just need to remember to print the image reversed, because you'd be putting the decal on the bottom underside of the plastic.
That's one of those processes I want to try myself, but haven't gotten around to it yet.