I'm nearly finished with restoring my JP and have moved on to SBM while we get some have plays on JP before finalizing it.

I purchased SBM with the thought of having some fun with restoring it and I really like the artwork. A fellow Pinsider was selling a fully functioning game with new CPR playfield.

Here are some pics before I started. Playfield a bit worn but I have a new CPR. Cabinet pretty good but I plan to paint it anyway. We played the game for a few months to make sure everything worked. I put LEDs in to make sure they worked fine too.
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Old playfield at disassembly.
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The CPR playfield was not as smooth as I'd like so I cleared it with some Spaymax 2k.

Sorry, I don't have any before pics. The clear was very thin, sunken circles around the inserts and you could see the grain. After a scuffing with 1000 grit, the clear issues were very apparent. It looked like a lot of dry spray and very patchy.

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I plan to add some color to the cabinet. Here are a couple concepts that I'm working thru...
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My artist kid says no to the pink..
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Front...

Thoughts on the color addition?

I have a large vinyl cutter and some Oramask and plan to create the masks myself.

Slight improvement...
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Thanks for the feedback.

So far,

1 - Original
1 - Pink
2 - No Pink

Yeah.. it was not terrible but it was not awesome either. The game was way too clean to do this to but it will be far nicer when done.

Did some tweaking.

Not sure that I like the wizard tho...
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But I do like the girl...
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I had thought about just a bit of color on the wizard but it seemed so little

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The accents on the balls for the front looked a bit goofy. Scaled a few of them down so that they fit better.

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Top side nearly complete.
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I'm digging the target decals.

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Bottom side started. Doing away with the bare wire for the inserts.

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Flipper plates clean up nicely.

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Buffing. Completely done with just the buffer.

Playfield temporarily in cabinet for testing... That and laziness to start the cabinet part of the project

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I've been working on the cabinet. I decided to change the cabinet paint just a bit..

Color around the ball only. Pulling the color out of the guy.
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And the front will only have color on the balls. I do need to fix this front coloring up a bit but you get the idea.

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Backbox will be plain. I'm torn on this one a bit tho. The color, if done to be somewhat accurate, would be on the bottom side of the ball between the hands but that is so minimal I'm thinking no color.
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After filling my garage up with dust sanding this...

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I bought one of these...

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Guide coat.

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Any tips on where I can get one of these little switches?

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It is the same as the one on the coin door.

And the sander did get a workout yesterday. Garage is remarkedly dust free.

Stencil time... Pinball Pimp set me up with my custom colors.

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First color on cab looks good.

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Sorry... Missed pics of the backbox until the end.

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Got the yellow on the ball cut and painted. Scanned the stencils from Pimp and designed my own yellow and orange layers on the ball.

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Orange layer.

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Blue going down.

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Going to need a touch-up on this side

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Rattle can but I'll put a 2k auto clear from a gun on top.

Other side has less touch-ups required.

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The end is closer.

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A bit closer yet...

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Clear coat time. I like shiny

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Decided to brighten up the yellow...

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Little bit of touch-ups left on the black and another coat of clear before this one heads to MGC.
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Funny how the perspective makes the ball and his arm look bigger.

That's one shiny Silverball.

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Together again.

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Final pictures... After a couple hundred plays at MGC.

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