The PF in the picture looks awful and needs a major restoration (not just a "touchup/clear".

Confused why you think this is a nice PF example. I've attached what a nice original PF should look like.

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Nice pickup, so that is what the colors are suppose to look like on cabinet.

My God! Beautiful score! To see the shine on the cab is amazing! Please shoot me a pm with ron's quote on touch up and clear, I've been considering addressing the cupped inserts on mine.

Wow someone is full of themself this morning. Learn to use resize.

That machine is in really good shape, it would be nice to find a NOS PF, but that one is great for touch ups. Wonder if CPR is thinking of Paragon as a next seller?

Looks plenty good to me!

True that!

The damage to the pf seems localized to just around the inserts. A good artist should be able to touch that up reasonably. It's the pf's with the paint thin all over, where white dots start to appear everywhere, that you might just roll with it as is.

Should have titled this "Pair-agon". (See what I did there?)

a white wood

Paragon is a good game, they got the crap played out them.

I agree as I helped him sell it. He was asking too much originally. This would have made a prefect donor for a nos or repaired playfield. My concern on the pf was much of the wood was worn into around the numbers. You may a good playfield between the two to restore. let me know when you decide which to keep cuz I may just want a player. You just missed a nos pf that needed minor work but maybe better to check with Ron as he may have a surprise for u.

Ps... Cool house, eh?

I agree that besides the playfield you are not going to find better. I would like to add one in the future but for the cost of a nos or repo pf it was more money than I was willing to spend on it. I still need to get my lotr! He emailed me and said he wants me to stop by and get a couple bottles of his homebrew too for helping lol! Enjoy

Nice pin, would love to fine one in nice condition some day, never really thought much of paragon until I saw one in person a couple weeks ago at an estate sale, went to look at some pins for sale and unfortunately it was already sold to the new owner of the house, I was bummed but bought a really nice table top pinball instead.

Garbage.

Most paragons look like those. It's VERY rare to have one that isn't worn to the thousands wording. That's because even NOS playfields have major insert cupping and sinking. Causing the wood to wear almost instantly. It's unavoidable unless you clearcoat it. Paragon is a killer game tho.

Garbage is something you throw away in the trash, You'd be a fool to throw away a Paragon even if it looked like that .

CPR will be out with a repro in a year or two. Mine is very nice but still needs work. All the bonus values are still visible which is rare. I may have Kruzman redo mine, or wait for a CPR.

Here's a pic of my Paragons. One on left was sold.

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If it helps, Ron quoted me about $700 to fix the pf on the Paragon I had. It looked about the same.

Wow, Some of you guys are real princess about your PFs. I really love a nice minty PF but all of my machines were bar/ arcade machines from the times when they got played and abused. They all show some signs of wear, have initials or high scores carved in the head and most are missing paint. I'm not an artist so there's no repainting PFs in my shop unless someone else gets out the brush. In turn all of my pins get played, a lot. Each and every mark on that pin is parts of its history and petina. I will, this summer, re-stencil and replace the PF on my SBM but not because I can't stand the sight of bare wood on the PF but because I want to try the swap myself. I don't collect pins as an investment I play them and don't want to get more money invloved in the pin than I can recoupe when I get tired of playing it.

Ehem, first off its "patina". Secondly, it's "Mr. Princess".

If mine is awful, what is this one?

How about this one? No hurtful comments - it's mine

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That looks like it has not been played in awhile, according to that sling rubber.

Comments like a couple of those above make me wonder what those people would do with a worn example like the badly damaged playfield. He called it garbage. Does that mean he'd trash it because it's not up to his personal standards? How many of these guys are doing the ol' "buy two, make one nice one, trash the extra" technique?

Just like an old Mustang, there are people who only admire them if they are completely restored, and others that value the car in its all natural state.

Either way, as long as someone is playing pinball, it's all good.

usually if you make 1 fantastic one out of 2, you sell the other to someone else that needs different parts and it goes down the line. Until it gets to the guy with a very limited budget that it stops at, and he spends a year or more restoring it to a beautiful showpiece with time and love.

I suspect that more often than not it doesn't even get to that second guy and ends up in a dumpster with the boardset kept around to be fixed later as spares for the first.

That's me then. I'm at the absolute limit of low-end budget so I bought a total junk project Paragon sold-as-seen with no chance to test it when I collected. Basically, I turned up, confirmed that what I was looking at was a pinball machine standing on its end, spent 10-minutes hunting for the backglass and legs, parted with my cash and left!

It was dead when when I got it home. It was my first pin too. But I was just so thrilled to have picked up a thing of such beauty. And after a lot of tinkering I rebuilt the power supply and repaired the battery acid damaged MPU. Side-stepped a few hacks and Voilá! A working Paragon. Sure she's a hunk of junk just like the Millenium Falcon.

"She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts."

I've got a shop log on here. Search for "Paragon Adventures In Budget Restoration".

No matter how bad, with enough time and effort, you can always bring 'em back to lookin' good.
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