This looks like a great project. It’s great how you throttle your approach depending on the game. There’s an Abra in my area in decent condition- tempting, but I just threw down for a Melody and need to lock off the classifieds for a while. Leckmeck, what’s your philosophy on painting the inside of the cabinet? I’m trying to decide whether my upcoming 2001 paint job should extend to the inner cab, particularly the portions of the sidewalls visible above the playfield. Right now I think it looks fine, so I’m leaning toward leaving that part original.

Nice light touch on the stencils. And way to go correcting the mirroring error. A few passes and *abra ca dabra*!

Do you plan to clear coat the whole cabinet when done w the touch-ups?

This airbrush work is like a QB sneak compared to a full repaint. Looking forward to what’s next!

Bummer. Sure is a close call, though. One could always use those plastic leg protectors to pad the footprint of the legs a bit. But I say that knowing full well that the rest of your collection doesn’t use those, and that you would never settle for such half-assery.

Regarding the number of passes it took to get coverage: I have been re-reading vid’s guides and he seems polemically opposed to craft paints, favoring createx airbrush paints instead because they have better pigment/coverage. Have you explored that route? I know you tend to buy a near-match craft paint and tune it for your application, which is the Clay approach. Vid’s approach is somewhat scary because it requires mixing with basic primary colors. My paint matching skills are probably at a 2nd-grade level. Anyway curious to see what you think.

Leckmeck, do you routinely use LEDs behind the backglass on wedgeheads? Or is that just a precaution on this machine given the triple thick issue?