The Play field guide at the top of the thread is awsome! But I'm the kind of person that can read until I pass out and it doesn't sink in until after I do it and mess up. Now, If I go back and read the guide it will make more sense.....Vids guide covers it all.
Hours? Who knows! Days and days of playing around!! First I tried to draw back all the lines, took a few days. Only to have them all pull off when I removed my first masking. Then I remembered in the guide it said something about locking all the loose stuff down with a coat of clear. I sanded it all back down and cleared it. But, I didn't clean up or out any holes. I still have to fix some of that. Even locked down with the clear it will still pull pieces here and there. My junk masking supplies didn't help that. I also masked with news paper and it trnasfered the ink to the board. The white areas were a pain to try to get that covered back up or out!!..
Trying to match color was another one of my problems, I would have it look perfect then after I sprayed, it would be too dark. I redid the some colors two or three times and it's still a little off. The green was another pain for me. I just could not get it to match, purple and yellow the same. So, some of that was redone 2 or 3 times. I tried to brush some spots in, That doesn't really work out well, at least for me it didn't. I had the red so thick I had to scrape it all back off with an opposite end of an exacto blade, flipped in the handle. When I finally got the red close, I ended up dripping black on it by accident, (below skateboard section). It won't come out, and when I tried to cover it with red I just made a bigger mess. It's staying! I got to a point where I just started not caring. Some nights I could outline the black with a brush perfectly, then the next night I was all over the place, towards the end I just started rushing it to get it done. I had all the words drawn back perfect, but that was dumb because I didn't paint the white first, so the last time I did the words, like above the bar area, I just scribbled them in real quick.
Just a lot of dumb stuff like that the whole way through, It wasn't really planned out very well. Next time I know to sit down and try to plan out what colors are going to be painted first and go from there. I did a lot of dumb stuff not thinking about what I was going to do further ahead. The next one will go a lot quicker and a lot smoother.
Then at the end, The junk clear I'm using, or maybe even something I did, curled my white and blue almost instantly, the other colors were ok if the clear dried quick. But for some reason the white was really touchy. I said the heck with it at that point, let it dry, sanded then put another coat of clear. So, by the end I was just burnt out on it. Redoing, junk masking supplies, etc.....
The paint is a whole other learning phase, what to put down for a base, thickness, thinning, air pressure, all seemed to change my color. That's something I need more practice with.
Oh, And if this was something that I highly valued I wouldn't use the junk clear. This was a practice project, and the game needs so many parts, I just thought I would play around and try to learn on this play field. That and money is really tight right now, so I had to find something to work and practice on. I have a couple other games I want to do the right way. I don't want to start those until I have better supplies.
added....Another I noticed, color would match in one area, but not in another. It just depends what is faded out more. I know it's common sense, but was something I never really thought about until I was trying to match. either paint all one color or match it to each section. some I did, and others I said the heck with it!