I have been working on my Jurassic Park. I have been working on the blown out scoop holes. The hardest part is to match the colors since I am color blind (Cliffys will be covering the area anyway, but I wanted to build up the wood so the Cliffys don't deform). My wife spent the summer in Florida, so I was texting her cell phone pictures to have her help me mix the colors.

While I have it torn down, I decided to make several mods (lighted backboard, lighted banner plastic, and east dock sign) which have slowed me down. I am on lighted backboard attempted 2.0 after a 1.0 fail...

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I used JB Weld to fill the damaged areas. I followed the process they described in the old This Old Pinball tapes (I think it was the "Lost in the Zone" one, but it may have been the "Pinball Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny" one).

I used cardboard with wax paper stapled to it for my mold. I then used some files that I bought at Harbor Freight to shape the JP Weld after it dried, followed with sanding. I just used the acrylic paints as mentioned in the TOPs video to paint the JB Weld after I was finished sanding it. I mixed a couple of tan colors to try and get a color that matches the plywood, mixed yellows/oranges for some of the colored areas, and used black and white out of the bottles for those colors. I wish I could match paint better (particularly the tan and the orange by the "C" scoop), but I think I did okay for a color blind guy. I put Verithane over the acrylic paint to protect it.