I just stumbled upon this thread. I am in the process of restoring a GTB Spider-Man as well (I purchased it as a rough non-working project from a trailer park in San Leandro - guy told me it used to be routed at a country club in Castro Valley). When I opened the machine up at home, I found out that Steve Charland serviced the machine and updated all the necessary items (grounds, capacitor replacement, etc.) since he left little white hanging notes on each of the things that were updated - pretty cool.

I cut and routed a new bottom and front panel for the machine since it had some water damage and rotted away.

Sanded, bondo'd the entire cabinet, primed with Kilz2, sprayed with Valspar signature paint in "Metropolis" grey.
Misted a bit of metallic paint around the cabinet, sprayed the "webbing" with Montana Marble effect. Used Banner red and Satin Ink for the blue.

Stencils were made using my Silhouette Cameo 3 (cut in sections since machine is unable to cut wide material). If you notice, the letters on the cabinet match the amazing spider-man on the backglass instead of using the existing font. Also, I used the spidey head from the backbox - in my opinion looks better than what was on the cabinet.

Let me know if you need anything.

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I am finishing up my playfield at the moment as well.

Used colored LED bulbs to match inserts, warm white bullet bulbs for under playfield plastics, and warm white bulbs for backbox (except purple was used for player # and blue was used in three circles on left side of backbox.

Playfield. Warm white is not as bright as sunlight / cool white and goes well behind the colors in the plastics and BG.

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Backglass. Actually used pink behind the goblin and bird dude. Used ice blue behind the girl

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Another thing to add is that I replaced the Gottlieb posts with normal posts (Machine Post/Stud 530-5010-02).

The change allows one to get rid of the speed nuts (which I don't care for) and color coordinate with plastic acorn nuts (check my playfield pics to see the different colors used in order to blend with the plastics).

This is what I started with. Had to route a new bottom and front panel due to water damage of bottom cabinet

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It was not.

I bought it from some guy that lived in a trailer park (San Leandro, CA).

He left the machine outside on a pallet and under a tarp.

When restoring cabinets I use 3/4" (18mm) Baltic Birch but in this instance I was out of the wood so used 3/4" Maple instead.

Yep, sand + polish + elbow grease.

Pictures attached to wire in additional bayonet socket

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