I'm just finishing up on a Data East The Simpson's PF resto and thought I'd put up some before and after pics for everyone to see. After purchase and starting work on the game, I found that i shouldn't have bought it, but it ended up pretty nice.

Here are a few of the worst spots.

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The playfield had mylar over the most of it so at least that was good. Here's a before and after a quick cleaning.

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Being in such bad shape the mylar didn't come off as good as I'd hoped for. After teardown and some scrubbing it became more obvious how bad it really was.

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Next I started to draw in the missing artwork from pics I found online. I got some help from member's here with a couple pics I couldn't find also. This first pic I ended up changing a bit as when I found a better pic of Bart's hand.

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I then painted with black over the lines I drew to give me the baseline to which I could start to color in the artwork

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A few more of the above process. Here the almost entire body of Smither's was removed with the mylar. I used the freeze spray technique to remove the mylar and with th combination of very bad condition of the game and being my first time doing it some artwork was removed with the mylar.

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And then from there started the month long process of touching up almost the entire playfield. I've found I'm very picky on color matching and not very good at it and its almost just as easy to redo the whole entire area that I'm touching up to ensure a perfect match. That however adds drastically to the time of repair, but looks perfect after clearcoating.

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Here's some pics prior to clearcoating, with most of the touch up work done.

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Some more prior to clearcoat.

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And a few full PF shots before Clearcoating. I'll post up some after clearcoat tomorrow.

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dvandentop: No NOS playfields out there, but I'm too cheap for that anyway. But I actually enjoy doing the work on the games bringing them back to their former glory about as much as I do playing them. Unfortunately I seem to keep jumping into projects one after another and seem to work more than play lately. My Pinbot was going to be next and I was waiting until next year to start, but I ended up getting a TZ and while shopping it out i decided it needed to be clearcoated too. Just got it sprayed yesterday.

Ok, so to answer a few questions, the paint is just the cheap $1 bottles of acrlyic craft paints. The brand I prefer is Folk Art, Walmart carries these as well as many of the hobby type stores. As for the prep work for CC anything that isn't new paint needs to be scuffed and cleaned before clearing. I've found it easiest that if your going to clear to take a good wax & grease remover and scrub the PF with a fine scuff pad (gray). Then from there after all touchup is complete you just wipe down the entire PF with the cleaner and spray. The clearcoat I use is an automotive clear (Family runs a Body shop so this is easy access) and is applied just like painting a car via spray gun.

Ok here are some pics after Clearcoating has been completed.

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Thanks jk2171 glad your enjoying it, if you have any specific questions don't hesitate to ask. I tried buying a Kiss machine from one of my brother's friends but he'd rather it just sit disassembled in his basement than get rid of it.

A few more after CC pics.

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Now here's a few Before/After pics of the worst areas to show the progress again. I've yet to take any fully assembled pics, so I'll take some and post them up later to finish it out.

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I thought about keeping track of the hours, but I knew it would be too many! I worked on it most nights for a couple hours and many hours on most of the weekends.

BTW how do you Quote someone, can't figure it out on this new setup?

Thanks for all the compliments, I definitely am proud of the work I did. It does make it hard to ever want to sell one of the games that I've put so much time into. This was my second complete resto and this one was alot worse than the first but not as much detail.

I see the Quote option has changed since yesterday, I guess I wasn't the only one who couldn't figure it out.

Yep, most were fine a few were slightly raised and I leveled them out the best I could and sprayed with them in. That way after clearcoating, wetsanding and buffing it will be perfectly level.

I used Folk Art craft acrylic paint - the cheap $1 2oz tubes. You can get them at Walmart or any craft store.

Here are som pics of it fully assembled as it sits right now. I need to send the wire ramps out to be powdercoated as I spray painted them and they seem to chip very easily. I also plan on doing the cabinet in the future, but I started work on my newest purchase, a TZ which has taken over priority.

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