Cool thread. I'd love to have a Space Mission overlay, but I admit to knowing nothing about the process. It will be interesting to learn about this as you go.

Good progress! I guess at a high level you scan the playfield and then import it into a vector drawing program? And after that start manually correcting all the art until it's ready to print?

Those inserts look pretty loud compared to the art and colors surrounding them Those are probably pretty easy to change once you get the vector drawing ready huh? A stock insert version would be nice to have too (I am one of the boring folks who never changes anything)

Looks great! I wonder how white those sections originally were? I always assumed they were off-white, going by the unfaded colors under my posts. The stars and SPECIAL WHEN LIT points still look normal white on mine too (even right next to the other sections that turned tan). Maybe it's just an illusion though .. hmm?

The more I look at mine and the photos above, I think it’s an illusion that the stars are whiter. So they probably did all start out the same shade of white.

Even in this playfield restoration thread, his stars look whiter until you zoom in. Curiously, he painted most of the sections in question bright white, but left the ones with words off-white. Maybe he didn’t feel like making all those decals though.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/1976-space-mission-playfield-restoration

PS - Watch out for stars when coloring in that sky. Looks like you might have already wiped out a few in the spinner lane.