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I’d definitely suggest purchasing one if you are on the fence. I’ve had mine for about 2 years, and it’s easily the best restoration purchase I’ve ever had. Here is a pic of a diner apron I recently did (airbrushed).
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Quoted from roar:That looks like it would have been a lot of work to weed... that's all done by hand right?
Thanks! I used the default matte vinyl auto setting when I printed it.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:That looks fantastic, I'd be curious if you remember your settings you used. I've found my attempts at precise fine detail like that to fail.
Happy for you. I don’t think you will regret it!
Quoted from roar:It is really impressive for sure... I bit the bullet last night and ordered a Cameo 4... family has all agreed they will try doing some crafts on it so it gets more use. Looking forward to playing around with it.
Thanks! Yep, I use the hp 4670 scanner (which is essential for playfields) to scan, used Inkscape to trace, and printed in the silhouette software.
Quoted from PinballBillinFL:To echo the others, that's a great piece of work. I haven't yet pulled the trigger on getting a Cameo for my playfield resto, and have given only passing thought to the apron. This might be the tipping point! I'm guessing you started with a scan?
Here are a couple more pics of other stuff. I always meant to come back to this thread and post them since this thread is what inspired me to go out and buy one. I had no experience with Inkscape or any other similar software beforehand. Again, it’s kind of a game changer in my opinion with pinball restoration. Would highly recommend getting one.
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Quoted from BJM-Maxx:Your posts have convinced me to get one finally. I have used InkScape a lot, I redrew a couple of entire playfields from scratch and had them printed. In your case for the TZ restoration, did you do a stencil for each colour?
Good call. I upgraded the software, and it was well worth it. If you keep an eye on slick deals, they will have a sale on it every once in a while. Considering the fact that the upgrade allows importing svg files directly, it's well worth the one time cost.
I’ve been a proud member of the silhouette restorer club for a few years now, and thought I’d share a video I just completed and haven’t put up yet, documenting a restoration I’m doing on my Rollergames playfield, using my silhouette cameo 3.
Thanks!! The transfer tape I use is r tape ebay.com link: itm
It’s the easiest one that I’ve used when eyeballing placement. I apply it dry, but it’s a bit forgiving if I have to reposition it as well as long as I haven’t put the entire thing down
Here's a video on how I do fades between colors. On the rollergames playfield, it's primarily between yellow and orange, and sometimes red. I am not concerned with the half tone dots on this playfield, just figured that's what they intended originally anyway, and in my opinion, it looks much better.
You are more than welcome. Sorry my camera angles aren’t great yet, but it’ll get better. Also, thank you for watching and subscribing, I really appreciate it.
Quoted from radium:That's funny because I'm the one that asked about application in this video, so thanks for that!
I have actually used water slide decals before, and they have turned out well, definitely nothing against using them. This is the first one I've done that I pretty much just said "forget it" to half tones, and I actually really like the result. I actually have already done the white at this point, but hadn't had the time to put the video together. It's funny how even though white on the sponsors looks really bright, I still had to redo them because they looked dull once I sprayed the rest of the white. I'm nearly finished vectorizing all of the grey, and really looking forward to seeing that done, as there are probably about 15 different shades at this point due to age. I'm kind of going back and forth on the inserts - I've done them both ways, but thinking I might just do decals this time around. Not sure yet
Quoted from sethbenjamin:I’m curious - have you used waterslide decals at all?
I tend to use a mixture of masking/airbrushing and decal work.
But, granted, the decals require a lot of time on the computer to get them dialed in. What appears to me as a more efficient method might actually be a wash once you factor in the “screen time.”
Anyhow, this playfield is coming along nicely. RG was the first machine I ever restored!
And for blacks, paint is definitely more opaque than decals.
I’d say definitely do the whites! It brightens up the game considerably. And after everything else you’ve done, spraying nice fresh white is easy.
A labor of love, what you’re doing. Very cool.
Awesome! Would love to see updates as you go
Quoted from dr_nybble:I’ve started a playfield repaint — Chicago Coin Bullseye Baseball, fairly simple playfield. Using Oramask 813, it’s decent but I think GerberMask is better. Finding that the Oramask doesn’t release as well and is a bit less stable than GerberMask. It’s easy to buy though, I’ll have to find somewhere in Canada that will sell GerberMask to me.
Incredible job on the previous one. Looking forward to see this one!
Quoted from dr_nybble:Teaser pic -- masked up and ready for white. Had to do the central mask in two pieces, a pain to line it up.
As with my previous bare wood repaint (https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bare-wood-em-playfield-repaint) I have a printout on transparency of the black layer to align the stencils.
This is a new piece of maple plywood, holes cut from the original using a router and a pattern tracing bit.
Took ~50ml of Golden High Flow titanium white using an Iwata LPH80 gun.
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Finally finished my roller games playfield using the silhouette for the entire thing. https://twitter.com/AndPinball/status/1647258885709864962
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