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I will show a few shots of the cabinet as the painting progressed over a period of weeks, if you haven't already seen it, have a look at how I stencil and paint in a little more detail here. I have been lucky so far that the cabinets I have re-sprayed have started with a black base, however you have to take careful note of what colours "sit" underneath which other colours. As an example, on Gorgar I could spray all the Black then all the White then all the Red, same with Tri-Zone, but on this Flash there was one patch of red that sat under the white so I had to make sure that I sprayed that first - LOOK for these small details before you start. |
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You can see the red patch in the above shot. After this I proceeded to make up the stencils for all the white images and spray the white over the top of this red patch as well as all the other white images around the body of Flash. Be careful to try and notice stuff like this, imagine if you failed to notice this and then sprayed all your white and THEN realised that this red patch was meant to be under your white image ( I nearly did that and that's why I am mentioning it here ) as it would be a MASSIVE job to fix that up. Next are some shots of all the white images finished on one side and the front panel, I painted the white images and then left 2 weeks before I started the remaining red images, I always get worried that placing the Nylex Contact film stencils over my previous colours will lift the previous colours off, that is why I wait so long in between colour sprays.
When it came time to spray the red images I was concerned about just laying the Contact stencils over all that white work I had already done, so I decided to just cut small stencil patches for the red and then cover the remaining gaps with newspaper and tape, therefore minimising the amount of white images getting the stencil placed on top of them as can be seen in the 1st shot below. Remember to check for any little gaps or joins in the stencils and cover them with tape where necessary. It took me about 3 hours to cut all the red stencils and transfer them from the old box to the new and then cover the rest in newspaper, it then took up another 6-7 hours doing the 4 coats of red paint. So it was a full days work, but I got all the red done in one day and it was worth it.
Below is how it started
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