I thought I could live with this wear spot on the pink top donut, figuring it's hard to see up top. Well it was bothering me so I painted the donut.

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Then, next to the freshly painted pink donut, the purple donut was looking pretty ratty.

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So now that one had to be painted. And so it goes... This is how I ended up painting a lot more than I originally intended to. My wife points out that I'll kick myself later if I take shortcuts. She's right.

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I also repainted a couple areas of blue that didn't turn out so well. The Kwik-e-mart kick I think I scuffed with the scotch brite before it was fully dried and had a dark tint to it. Moe's blue shirt I had brush painted because it was such a small area but it was showing my brush strokes, so it got airbrushed.

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You can see Moe's apron shows some unevenness in that photo, so that got repainted as well.

Thanks Jody! Now all I need is a new ramp!

At that point I could put some decals on but will need to wait for another clearcoat for others like the top lane donuts and moe's apron. I sanded up to 1000 grit for the decals, which wasn't quite enough. Here is one with some ghosting under the big K.

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So I sanded up to 2000 grit with better results.

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So I got some of the decals on, some small touch ups, and took it in for the 4th coat of clear.

After the decals I got another coat of clear, again the new place turned it around in a couple days. This would be coat number 4. This sealed in some additional paint layers so I can do some additional decals and coat it again. I see light at the end of the tunnel! Here are some pics of the primary repair areas with the fresh clearcoat.

Waterfall looks nice under the clear.

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Got Moe's speech balloon in but repainted his blue and pink so decal needs to go on this clearcoat layer. Some lines need to be touched up.

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Drop target starbursts done.

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Kwik-e-mart kick repainted looking better, just need decals. Advance books done.

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Donuts look good, just need decals. Glad I redid them.

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Bowling pins and opening look good, unevenness pretty much gone.

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Bonus inserts done, just need the extra ball decal.

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Thanks. Nice find! My ramp is broken in the same place, I think most are. Other than that it's fine, just yellowed and will stick out like a sore thumb with the restored playfield. There has to be a way to reinforce that entrance.

I did ebay a set of repro plastics but they are pretty crummy. One step above my missing and broken/gluey plastics.

Sanded that coat, got the last decals on and a few small touch ups and got clearcoat number five. I'm liking this thing where the shop has it ready for me in two days. It's been a long road but I'm calling it done on touch-ups, I'm going to sand it and get one more top coat this week. Excited to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Picked up the playfield today with clearcoat number 6 on it. Looks great. With about $400 of clearcoat and incalculable amounts of time I'm ready to put this thing back together.

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It is a beautiful thing. As much as I hate to, I know I need to take the sandpaper to it now. Here's the obligatory reflection photo.

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Looks pretty shiny but upon close inspection you can see the welling around the holes and cutouts. Plus there are some dust particles and so forth.

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I started at wet block sanding at 1500 grit but it wasn't removing enough material, so I went to 1200 to get back to a flat surface.

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I was able to get everything leveled again, tomorrow I will go back to 1500 and then 2000.

Wet sanded by hand up to 2000 then used my new DA buffer with Meguiars ultra compound and ultra polish. I think it looks fantastic!

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And the obligatory reflection photo:

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Here are some before/after glamor shots for posterity.

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