I am in the process of restoring a Gottlieb Pro Football EM which from purchase had some serious cabinet flaws on the right side particularly within the 'footballer red helmets and a red splash section.
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Earlier in this thread I was very interested in reference to factory stencilling of EMs by way of metal stencil jigs. That was a bit much for me but I thought I would try the same principle using MDF board.
I traced each of the helmets and the splash to tracing paper and then adhered the trace to the MDF.
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I then cut the 'to spray' section out using a jigsaw with timber cut blade and cleaned up the edges with abrasive paper and secured the board to the cabinet using light cargo webbing.
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Time now for spraying using a Duplicolour spraycan from the local auto shop. The colour flame red was an almost identical match to the original colour.
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I was very happy with the result particularly getting the small overspray line around the perimeter per the original factory finish.
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I was also surprised that this is not a particularly time consuming method. A few minutes to trace, the same to adhere to board, about 10mins to jigsaw and cut the board and about 15mins to mask, spray & remove jig. I am now rather keen to try the process on a complete cab resto.