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EM Cabinet Repaint Suggestions needed

By smileymatthew

5 years ago



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    #1 5 years ago

    So I've got a couple EM's that I want to have fully "restored" but I had no artist talent when it comes to painting, matching pain, type of paint etc.

    Any Suggestions on what kind of place or whom would do this that someone may have used? Professional painter etc?

    Thanks Much!

    #2 5 years ago

    I haven’t read this forum yet but maybe it will inspire you to do it yourself. Or search to see if vid1900 created a forum for this topic. Does pinball pimp make stencils for your games?

    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/silhouette-cameo-pinball-restorers-club

    #3 5 years ago

    Almost no one restores the original cabinet art work. Its mostly a sand- fill- sand and stencil effort. That will probably cost a bunch to hire and is not so difficult to do...

    #4 5 years ago

    Perhaps you could use @paintpins ? Kevin is currently doing a Gottlieb Team One for me and sending it with a Fireball (72).

    https://www.preservationpinball.com/

    #5 5 years ago

    Curious- willing to share a ballpark idea on price for a cabinet redo?

    I was coming up with just shy of a grand. Suppose it could be less and easily more...

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    #6 5 years ago

    If you have an air compressor, you can get good results with a cheap HVLP spray gun from Harbor Freight and using paint from spray paint cans. Here are the results of my first go around doing this:
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    I used the HF 62381 HPLV kit. Take it apart and clean clean clean it before you use it. To get paint out of spray cans, I would let a can sit for 1 hour, then tap a small pin hole in the top of it with a sharp nail or screw. It takes a few days to fully vent out. I would cover the pin hole with tissue and shake every so often and it would vent some more. Once it no longer vents, shake well, enlarge the hole to pour out. Painting with the HVLP will give you so much more coverage than directly from the can. The base coat of white was done with less than 2 cans for cabinet and back box, inside and out... several coats.

    But before you paint.... it is all about the prep work. I did a LOT of bondo and sanding... more bondo followed by sanding. It seems like there is always more to fill and smooth out, but in the end it is worth the effort.

    Depending on the artwork, straight lines are simple to mask off. Curves and such gets a bit more complex. I have a small plotter cutter so I made stencils for the bowling pins.

    All the pictures of my Kingpin project can be found here:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/6OzDoCiIy73Dwyqa2

    If you have any questions, ask, I'll do the best I can to help out. I'm no expert, just watched some YouTube videos and painted a couple of cardboard boxes before doing this.

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