Your pf painting brings back a lot of memories doing mine.. although I hand painted (airbrushing is so much better!!) I only planned on doing touchup and bare wood repaint but ended up going farther and farther, repainting all back and star background and off white over all the scoring lettering. Tedious!

Caution with those key lines — I used the same ones. If your auto clearing it’s prob fine but if you’re going with hand paint or spray can Clear — I sanded and leveled all my inserts and those damn key line stickers Raised the areas and made it impossible to get a really flat clear layer even after a ton of coats (I was using spray cans)

Yikes! I’d be Leary of soaking To clean as I believe layers of windings are separated by oil soaked papers?

I think this is a common problem up to Some point where you realize you’ve spent so much time .. if you can see it through good on you though! Then it becomes another problem — after you spent so much time/$ and you kinda want a different game down the road but so much time/$ in on this one, hard to let it go!

Looks shiny as hell, very pretty to look at! Bet it plays fast as hell too, once you’ve got it all done!