This story begins February of 2018. I was in northern Wisconsin on a work trip and found this. The story was the family hung out at this local bar and the kids played this pin, when the bar closed, the bar owner gave it to the family to enjoy. I purchased from the brother and sister. It was in a loft in a large detached garage, dude used a bobcat with a pallet fork attachment to get it down!

I quickly realized some ding-dong painted over the turquoise and orange colors with blue and red. The white base was painted over with some crappy gold.
Otherwise the game was in pretty good shape - backglass almost 100%, inside mechanics very clean, some small wear and planking on the playfield, solid cabinet.

At 730 units, I'd call this rare. I've done a lot of shopouts on pins, but never a full restoration. Now in a new house with a garage, I have grand plans to restore this amongst other games. Last pic is the stairs to the basement of my old apartment where this was stored, amazing how I made it work.

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Fast forward 9 months and I've scanned all the artwork, vectorized it, cut stencils out on Oramask on my Silhouette Cameo 3.
In preparation I've also stripped the cabinet, sanded off the crappy old paint, primed.
I got the paint colors matched at Sherwin Williams.

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The lockdown bar receiver was pretty nasty, one night in Evaporust made a huge difference!

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Made a makeshift spray booth in my garage, upgraded my compressor, learned all about spraying.
Primed cabinet!

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Painted and speckled!
The speckle was hard to dial in right, let alone get right. It's a little dense on the front but overall very happy with it.

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This takes us up to today. Today I cut out the remaining stencils I needed, weeded and trimmed.
Then went and applied to the head and start of the cab.
I was hesitant to use a ton of transfer paper for such large stencils.
I do the lay it out and secure it method, then lift and cut the back paper, adhere, then pull off the backing for the rest.
Ironically, I use the roll of transfer tape I bought to roll out the stencil - works great!

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Laid down green today!
The Oramask is very nice. It was lifting in a few areas which created some overspray. I personally like the crisp sharp lines.
While there were a few messups, I'm overall very happy with it! Anything that's real off I'll repair inside with the airbrush.
Hoping to do the final coat of orange tomorrow, REALLY hoping my stencils line up

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Laid down the orange today.
Applying the stencils was challenging. The Oramask is only 12" wide so large objects have to be spanned across two pieces.
Lining them up was difficult, but I nailed it.
The more complicated images also required the use of some transfer tape. I'm using the transparent type. It's much lower tack than the Oramask, but good for the quick transfer I need.
Applying the stencils and covering up the no-spray area took over 2 hours, woof.

Spraying was easy, I chose to go with a lot more light coats this time.
Despite laying a few light coats, it's still fairly transparent. I'll let it dry 4 hours and spray another coat.
There's some obvious parts where I made the green layer overlap with the orange an excessive amount

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Brought the head in and removed the masking slowly/carefully. No paint lift but the masking was certainly stuck on there decently.

Some small mistakes, some overspray (maybe a good thing), and some tiny things to fix, but overall extremely satisfied!!!
Will bring in the cabinet when girlfriend comes home to help me move it - progress!

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Reassembled! The flat head screws were a real pain, but this went back together fairly quickly. The metal parts were overall very nice, the zinc plating looked great. I still dipped as much as I could in evaporust overnight.

Turned it on (for the first time ever) and seems to be getting stuck on reset. This is my first EM and one that I'll work on, stay tuned...

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