Great cabinet restauration!
Just completed the same.
Wish i would have seen your post earlier.
Would have gladly sent you my paint templates.
I make them from 1/8" mdf boards.
They are reusable, but i won't be using them again anytime soon!

Mine did not have that blue scoop either.
But the left side original art had a interesting defect. Can you spot it?

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Good eye!
Yep, kept the backward 7. Im a stickler for restaurations to original condition.
(In all honesty, it saved me from having a different template for left and right sides. And a good excuse to do so . Plus makes for a good talk with friends around the pin.)

Youre doing a great job. Went thru the same nastiness with mine. Had to go pretty deep but didnt have to go too wide. Filled and reshaped with bondo. Then had to do something to blend that bondo. Never liked the faux wood airbrushing technique. So i tried a little "ad-libbing". Youll recognize the patern from the tyres.
My other options were a checkered flag pattern or a series of triangles just like the spinner insert lane.

That snakeskin pattern you see is carbon dust and grime that has been pounded into the grain of the second layer of plywood. Youll have to go pretty deep to remove it all be sanding. Better to just sand to sound wood, fill, reshape and paint with either faux-wood pattern or some other pattern. To help the bondo bite into the wood, i took a Dremel with a small flat endmill to the wood and made a whole bunch of notches in it.

Once done reshaping, this is how the ball layed in the lane. Touching only on the sides where I still had some sound wood. Preferred it touching wood rather than Bondo. Although there will be a few coats of clear over that. I honestly dont know if that's good or bad. Remember asking around (maybe asked Vid cant remember) and his response was not to worry about that too much. So time will tell.

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Im away from home for a few weeks so im answering from memory.
I use Molotov spray can to paint. And i use a fan cap on the can. If my memory serves me right, i used 'signal red' for the red color. Cant remember what i used for the blue.

PM me with your question, that way i wont forget to answer your question when I'm back home.

Ignore my previous post from a few weeks ago. Color i gave you was wrong.
Here is what I used:

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