Vid and everyone - need some help on a Funhouse cab decision. I am about to start a playfield swap / restoration on my funhouse (my first) and i need to make a decision. The cabinet art is really good - bright colors, hardly any dings, etc. EXCEPT - for this one gnarly scratch and some fading by the flippers. I have read the decal swap threads and it sounds like a monsterous undertaking. Any ideas on a good way to fix this? I was thinking:

1. Isolate area
2. Bondo the scratch and sand so area is level and even
3. airbrush the blue with best paint match that i can

Is this a good course of action? Any other recommendations are appreciated.

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Thanks Vid. If i were to go with your proposed fix, should i just consider a full decal swap and cab resto? Assuming that is a MUCH bigger undertaking than your solution?

Already am planning to clean up and paint inside of cab and sand inside bottom.

Thanks,

Hello All,
Working on a Funhouse back box restoration. I have run into some unusual rot on the sides of the backbox (where decals will go). Any advice on how to best handle this? It seems to be just below the surface as initially the wood seemed nice and hard. But as I bondo'ed and filled scratches, I sand down the bondo and get to a lower level of this very soft wood. I have scraped a good bit of it out, but it is frustrating as I just keep finding more. Even after I bondo.

Any advice on how to tackle this?

Recommended filler for the big gaps I am creating? The bondo is difficult to use in these bigger "cavities"

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thanks. I am going to go pick up some fiber glass resin.

Anyone have ideas on the rot? Do I need to get all of it out of there? my fear is that as I sand I keep finding more below a harder top layer of wood.