Still hoping for Paragon. Will be scanning my current apron and cleaning up the artwork scratches and stains to make my own cover or magnet.
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Still hoping for Paragon. Will be scanning my current apron and cleaning up the artwork scratches and stains to make my own cover or magnet.
OK, so I scanned the old apron. Next I cleaned it up in Gimp and Paint. As part of the process I down converted it to four colors to get rid of any gradients. This made it really easy to finish the touch-up and replace colors with a bucket fill. I made the blue closer to my repainted cabinet color and added some cool price and instruction cards right into the artwork. The format is a standard size 20x30 inches which cost $9.50 to print in one hour at Sam's Club. The print scaling is a perfect match. Now I just need to carefully cut and attach it with some spray glue. I plan to wrap it around and down the sides and use mylar where the ball will hit. This should last until someone comes out with a screened version!
20190727_195526 (resized).jpgAll done. It looks great. If I had to do it again, I would go with a different glue than the 3M 77. I'd either use mounting tape or just do the sheet magnet trick. The spray glue is removable, so will make it easy to remove and strip for screening, if that ever becomes a possibility. It just had a little adhesion trouble where it wraps around the corners. Not a big problem though, I'm just a little anal. Once the glass goes on, no one will know but me, so not a problem.
20190728_105413 (resized).jpgQuoted from pinster68:It does look great. Nice work. I should do that for my Future Spa. Apron is trashed.
Apparently the people who print the "wraps" for cars and trucks can print smaller custom sizes. That stuff is meant to wrap around metal. Would be interesting to try that here.
Quoted from trilogybeer:Is your Paragon cabinet done with blue as the base color?
Yep, gold spatter and all. Figured I'd do something a little different.
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