This is amazing! I'd love to know how you painted the white and red areas, simple masking and airbrushing? Would love to see pics of that. How did you strip off whatever clear was on there and not ruin the rest of the paint? More details would be awesome.

Still looks real good. I finally got a spare play field to restore, I'm going to be documenting it in my own thread:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/la-portas-firepower-rejuvenation

I did have a question: seems like you did a lot of clearing prior to placing the decals. Any reason why, once the inserts were leveled, you didn't place them right away? I would think that more clear over them rather than under them would help them stay level and help smooth out whatever edges there might be.

Looking forward to seeing how this goes as well!

Interested in seeing how that comes out...I want to re-do my coin door.

That's a cool sand bucket thing you have there....must cut down on the hours it takes me to hand sand everything!

Maybe I can get one at Harbor Freight?

Brilliant! Not re-doing brushing, I assume?

That's pretty sweet. What did you use to paint the coin door? And what I was asking about brushing was the brushed metal pattern on the front of the door. It appears you will keep it polished?

What's the link?

Hoe about a source for the yellow covers themselves?

Everyone here helps make this a great resource...thanks!

I'd be in for one of those with the tab as well.

That's impressive. I just chrome-wrapped mine.

That's the crap I am most worried about dealing with.

On the metal I polished (ramps, lane guides, etc) I just put a good coat of wax on them. Should be as hydrophobic as anything else.

Is that Mantis one an exact replacement for our FP piece? $65 is pretty cheap.

The first picture is how rusty. I sanded, used evaporust...I even used a spiral wire brush on a drill...the stuff was practically impervious. I finally got it off, but the surface was just too far gone. So, At the suggestion of someone else here, I bought the chrome wrap. For $10, it was a no-brainer.

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Still, your polishing is second to none. I can’t wait to see it all together.

Good thing you aren’t going to Pintastic...you’d blow my FP out of the water!

That's pretty much the same way that I highly polished all of my playfield rails...it works great!

I did the same, looks great. Bear in mind, you will wind up with a ball-roll streak on the lane guides in the middle. No way around it.

Well, I still wanted a mirror finish. I like it how it came out. The lower flipper guides, however, look great buffed.

Now THAT is cool!

That’s craziness! I’d clearcoat that thing like no one’s business to protect it.