Personally, I'm not a fan of coloured LEDs in GI. I like frosted white LEDs. Brightens up the playfield and doesn't wash out the plastics.

I did mine a little while back. No kit - it's always been cheaper for me to just buy big bags of stuff; I have done several games and just needed a lot of bulbs. I do put some color matched bulbs occasionally (mostly blue and yellow). Red you just need to get the right level of brightness on the LED - too bright, and it can look orange. Cool white for inserts. Warm white for GI.

There's almost no need to do color matching really, though - mine has LEDOCD and GIOCD installed - those are much better value than trying to match color, IMO. You can dial down each individual bulb if they are too bright, and get the perfect insert color. Highly, highly recommend it.

100% agree that frosted bulbs make good sense. Just get those nice domed ones to replace exposed condom bulbs and you're in business

The pinballbulbs kit is great, the extra strips and spots really brighten the game up without making it look like clown puke. They have had Black Friday sales in the past, it might be worth waiting a couple weeks.

Just choose whether you like warm or cool white and buy those for the GI. For the inserts, you can color match.

Don't use color bulbs in the GI. It always looks terrible. Always.

or, use sunlight white (from Comet).

IMHO, I wouldn't color match inserts, as there are a couple different red inserts, and using red LEDs, you'd lose the difference. I went all warm white in GI and inserts, and had to go for natural white (sunlight) in the backbox because my translight is old and yellowed from the incandescents.

I'm also not a fan of landing planes on my TZ, so I tried to keep the color wash to a minumm.

In my opinion, LED flashers are often too bright. If you do LEDs everywhere else, and keep the flashers incandescent...no one will notice or complain that the flashers aren't bright enough.

If they are under plastics or inserts they can be ok, but if they're pointed at your face - usually yes too bright. I have put some masking tape over mine occasionally - warms them up and dampens the blinding flash.

I am into color matching the GI Lighting with the plastics and areas with LEDs. Here are pics of an LED conversion I did for a customer's TZ that I shopped out recently. I used CoinTaker Frosted bulbs for all GI. I think it diffuses the light better. I used Cool White for the front flipper area and general GI. Under the mini-playfield I used purple and then used red for the Gumball area and blue under the ramp. Also added an LED strip under the backbox to light up the top of the ramp (See the flipper POV pic). On the ramp I changed the flasher caps to all Blue. Finally in the back box I put Blue GI bulbs under the Twilight Zone wording to give the blue halo effect. I know not everyone is into heavy LED usage but I really like the accent and highlights they can provide. Side note the rubber rings are all TITAN Competition rings I went with Purple as the main color. They match the TZ plastics perfectly!

20171003_174234 (resized).jpg
20171003_174257 (resized).jpg
20171003_174026 (resized).jpg

I shopped out and LED'ed this for a friend and he had already purchased the backboard blade. Not sure where or when he got it. The ones on the side I applied and they are from PinGraffix

I just did my machine TZ with a light kit. It came out great I'm doing my IJ next. I'm putting a link of the place I purchase them from. Good Luck
https://pinbulbz.com/shop?olsPage=t/pinball-super-led-kits&olsFocus=false&page=5

Randy