The mech cover was flaking and looked dull so I decided to remove all paint and then polish the cover, after that I made mirrored water slide decals and finely I painted the cover from the backside with two colours, silver and green.
This work was a really pita and took me a couple of weeks.
I used solvent (isopropyl) for removing the paint and it worked well for me on this application.
You have to be very careful when selecting solvent as most of them will affect the plastic, but this one worked fine!
You have to be very careful when selecting solvent as most of them will affect the plastic, but this one worked fine!
After cleaning I polished the covers in and outsides.
Here are the mirrored labels, I scrapped a lot of them before I succeeded.
Two of the three water slide decals on place.
Not perfect, but good enough.
Not perfect, but good enough.
On the backside I first filled the stars with silver paint using the smallest brush I could find.
I painted the stars at least 20 times before I was satisfied and the paint was thick enough.
I painted the stars at least 20 times before I was satisfied and the paint was thick enough.
Then I airbrushed the inside (this was the easy part).
This looks really good.....at least from the backside :-)
Close up photo of one star. Looks good from the outside too!
Mech cover mounted and tone arm polished!
