Playfield Touchups - Round One

Alex and I started the touchup process with the black areas on the playfield. Since the background color of the playfield is black, this was quite a lot of painting. We just wanted to fill in the little dots that had been worn through the paint. We used an Americana acrylic black to do this, but the result wasn't great; the flat acrylic looked odd on the glossy black background, and the touched-up areas were very noticeable. Some recommend using Apple Barrel's brand of glossy black acrylic for this instead, and I think we'll try that next. In any event, we'll be de-glossing everything a bit when we use fine-grit sandpaper on the finished playfield so that the clearcoating has something to bite onto, but I'd prefer that everything matched as well as possible before starting the clearcoating process.