The Painting

the Painting consited of three main colours Brown, off white and a slightly more off white, i also used a gold silver colour for behind the screens and on some for some of the writing.
the brown i mixed was very close to the original, there is only a slight colour difference mine is maybe slightly lighter.

to spray the brown i masked off the inside areas and hung the two halves off the hinge using wire, this made it much easier to get to all the areas when spraying.

to spray the white areas i mask off the brown using fine edge masking tape to create a clean mask line but unfortunately when i removed the masking tape some of the brown paint came with it. this only happened in the areas i had just milled out when i was making the voids for hinges. for some reason the paint didn't key to the surface, these areas will ahve to be resprayed but i will make sure the areas are properly keyed first.

i used a lasercutter to create the stencils for the inserts were the buttons are and the brown and silver lettering that sits above and below the screens. i used self achesive pastic film and after much trial and error found that this was the best for making stencils. i experimented with plastic tape, maksing tape, brown packing tap but found the plastic film to be the best.

to make the stencils for the wrinting i was too hard to try and transfer them once they had been laser cut so i sprayed the piece first the covered it in the plastic film which i then ran it through the laser cutter, i could then just remove the areas i wanted to spray without disturbing the rest of the masking. the result was very good i managed to get a good clean mask with minimal paint bleed, there were a few problem areas but nothing major. some bits might have to be resprayed.

around the screens there is a speckled spray effect which i recreated by turning the air right down and adjusting the paint flow on the spraygun. i used the same technique when sparaying the buttons to give them a rubberised look but also added matting agent to give it a dulled worn look.

graphics and screens

The graphics on the lid and the screens have probably been the most difficult thing to do of this whole project, just because of the amount of time it takes to create them and the problems of what materials to print them on to.
for the screens it is just a matter of tracing over a photo of the original the filling the area with a block colour. the screen is actually on more than one level, which means i will create the screen in several layers which i will then print on to acetate. i will use a sheet of acrylic in between the two layers of acetate to create the depth of the original screen.


with the lid graphics i cant print on to acetate it would be too thick and the results would look terrible there are several other options including decal transfers, rub downs or masking and spraying after much research i have chosen to try decals these will be the cheapest and easiest to
make. Rub downs cost about £30 per colour and spraying would be too fiddly and take too long i am hoping the decal will be the answer.


some testers printed on paper just to make sure the sizing is right.


lasercutt stenciling tests i'm not sure how good these stencils are going to be, i will do some spray tests first before spraying the final ones. also some paint colour test, the off white is a good match but the brown is not correct it needs to be redder and lighter.



the Decal water transfers have been a success they worked very wel,l really good on the lighter backgrounds but not so good on darker ones, the lid graphics have worked very nicely they worked so well i decided to use it for the lettering in black.


before a apply the decal to the aluminum lid insert i needed to spray it with a tinted lacquer to give it the colour of the original which is a golden yellowy silver, i mixed yellow, red and some of the brown in to the lacquer, i sprayed 4 coats so building up the colour bit by bit without covering the texture.



this is a tester done on to clear acrylic, it works very nicely.


the screens have worked well the hard work of all the tracing has paid of. i printed one set off but the colours where too dark so i lightened them and adjusted them to make them closer to the originals. the screens them selves are made up of four sheets of material, a base sheet of acetate sprayed a golden silver then another sheet of acetate with the chracters and some of the scenery, then a 2mm piece of acrylic with a final sheet of acetate with the top bits of scenery printed onto it.