Nice work! Came out good!

Haha, I feel you. I recently did my first touch up job on my '69 Gottlieb Road race. Needless to say I was a bit scared looking at my hand holding a paintbrush anywhere near the play field haha. Keep up the good work! Please share the bonus light touch up when you get to it!

Looks good as you say unless you told someone they would not notice. Always good to see a game get someone who wants it looking, playing better.

Looks good!

Wow looks awesome! My problem was having some bubble up and paint lifting when I used clear coat

Decent! (Bubbles,trailer park boys)

Oh man you really did your research! If I decide to touch up my wizard I will def use your technique! Actually the guy I got my wizard from did a rough touch up and perhaps ill use magic eraser on that! I'm not sure how long ago it was done but it sure would be nice to have it smoother. You made my night!

looks good! i did some touch up on my deadly weapon. it's been holding up okay but it's chipping a little, still looking a lot better than it did. i probably should have used some super fine sandpaper to get rid of the the left over paint debris chunks. i'm planning to go back and touch them up. i've heard it does better if you let it sit for several days after painting but i was too excited to play it! mylaring over it might also be a good option, though i don't know if there would be issues with bubbling later down the road.

That barrel looks great! You've got quite the knack.

These look great! I'm touching up my Pinbot currently... no bad wear spots but lots of cracking in the lacquer and top layer of color. Tough going but definitely worth it.

Very nice work, I hope I can do asmgoodmamjob as you when I decide to tackle some touch up!

Damn... no doubt, that's awesome looking. really nice work

ya, my Black Hole was pretty rough... I was actually looking for another pf to replace it, but in the end I thought, well, I'll try it... anything was better than bare wood right? I think it will look okay once it's back together and the lights are off... lol

I found 3 of the 4 paint colors last week and did some touch ups over the weekend, well yesterday I need to take some more photos of it at this stage... like I said, it's not even close too what I think it should be, but I just had to come to grips with "it is what it is" and it should look okay from 6'... lol a 6 foot paint job ( it looks good from 6 feet away)

lol, mine said she thought it looked fine as well, and once it was together you prob wouldn't even be able to notice the touch up... we'll see yours look really nice from here though, seriously. nice work

That is looking great in the photos. I hope mine ends up that good.

I am currently repainting a Fire! machine, I wish I would have tried the enamel paint. I have been using acrylic and coating it with varnish to harden it. I'm not sure how well it will hold up, but if it chips away I guess I can always redo it with enamel.

here are some before... I don't have any after right now... I'll take some pics tomorrow and post them... it'll be from 6ft though lol

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I bought this machine about a year ago and have never even played it... I have installed all new boards and by the time I got them in I had the pf torn apart to touch-up, then got caught up in the "perfection thing"... I have finally started to get on this so I can play it and hopefully it works with the new boards and ribbon cable

I hope so... I feel like I need to sand it some more though... lots of low spots under were the pop bumper mylars were, and the yellowing from the clear I guess, or maybe just age... I just didn't want to sand the paint off trying to get the yellowing out of it.

So far I have just been touching up the black, which is pretty easy. Since the main issue is just the cracking I thinned down the paint some and the capillary action helps to carry it through the cracks. Have not had to do any color matching yet, but that is coming. The Testors enamels are REALLY close to the Pinbot colors, but just different enough that I will need to adjust them a bit or it would be pretty ugly.

I have been letting the paint sit overnight and then wiping with a paper towel soaked in 91%. It takes the excess paint off of the good surface while leaving it in the cracks. Just have to be careful not to drag it over other cracks that shouldn't be black inside, as it does smear a bit until it is fully wiped up.

I have read some other people talking about Testors enamels coming off with naphtha even after a long cure time, but I have found that in about a week it seems to be pretty much impervious unless you are really scrubbing on it.

Here's an in-progress pic, it should be clear if you click to zoom in what has and has not been touched up so far. Pretty much the whole playfield had this cracking in the color to some degree, it shows as white because I guess the under-layer is white.

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