Wow! Looks like this will be much longer than a trilogy! Hope you don’t get bored.

The 2nd coat of poly seemed to dry rather quickly, and looked good. I decided to skip the 3rd coat and get on with installing the overlay. Here’s a couple pics of the playfield after I finished the polyurethane.

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I was really looking forward to putting the overlay on, but at the same time I was dreading it. This stuff isn’t cheap, and if I screw it up I don’t exactly get a do-over.

I decided to do this on the kitchen table because we don’t really use it for eating ;) .

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I’m very happy with the results. I opted to spray the playfield down with Windex first so I could reposition the art if needed. I read about this in forums and it worked well. After spraying down the playfield, I peeled the entire overlay off the paper backing with the help of my wife. She held her end up high so I could position my end (please, no jokes!). I had to lift it a few times to get it right (thanks Windex!).

After I was happy with the positioning, I started to press it down with a plastic squeegee thing-a-ma-whats-it:

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I’ve used this for sideart before. I think it might have been leaving some scratches, so I switched over to a formica roller which worked better:

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Here are some closeups:

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I may wax this…haven’t decided yet.