Alright, so this Pin*Bot was the first game I ever got and I hold it dear to me. It has always been a "players game" but I figured I'd try my hand at making it a little nicer. This is my first attempt at touching up a playfield so please bear with me
I keep a game at my parents house for them to enjoy and they had pin bot for awhile, then a coil got locked on and fried some stuff and so I figured while I was fixing it up I should go ahead and do a light restore on it.
My PinBot has the mylar, and I am not going to pull it and do all that jazz, but where the mylar ends the paint is showing some wear in several places.
The worst spot is the upper lane to the kick out and in the drain area under the flippers.
I am red/green, blue/purple, yellow/orange color blind so we will see how well my paint matches up haha. Basically I can't tell shades of colors apart. I'm not super concerned of a perfect match as I don't plan on getting rid of the game, but I want to help preserve the playfield and make it look nicer in my collection.
I've dug through a bunch of the restore threads and got some ideas on paint colors to match, etc. so I figured I'd document what I can if it helps anyone else in the future.
Parts to add/ things to do:
CPR Plastics set (had several broken plastics) Ordered when CPR had them in stock and just sat on them.
Pinbits Plastics protectors (to help prevent future broken plastics)
Titan competition rubbers (went with red/blue scheme)
Paint touch ups - right now using Folk Art acrylics found at Michaels
Buff mylar
Going to work with ryanwanger to add some Comet LED's to the GI. Gonna test a few options since he is local and a great guy to deal with.
I put some comet frosted cool white I had left over from a long time ago in the inserts, previously they had color matching leds. I think the white under the insert color looks better but thats just me.
Anyways here are some starting pictures. Did all the black last night. I think I am going to put sheets of mylar down over touch ups rather than try and clear certain areas but open to suggestions.
Cleaned the entire playfield with naphtha and a microfiber clothe. Then in areas where I want to touch up the paint I used 91% rubbing alcohol on it with a microfiber clothe. Finally, I used some 800 grit wet sandpaper with some novus 2 on the spots to put down paint.
Game turned on prior to any work:20180111_120612 (resized).jpg
Playfield with most of it striped:20180112_185234 (resized).jpg
Top lane with damage:20180114_162347 (resized).jpg
Top lane after first pass with black, hoping to sharpen up some of it a bit more, especially the 25k insert, but this is what I did up top:20180114_170616 (resized).jpg
Hoping to try and mix the dark grey color tonight or tomorrow and move on.
I touched up with black spots in both inlanes as well as under the solar value left ramp and where the ball exits the shooter lane as well as the switch under the vortex ramp and near the flippers and where the ball enters the drain above the ball trough. I'll add some more photos later on.