The lower central part is , of course, a decal , as part of the upper section. Except of the lower central section , every other area including decals that acted as a guide , were painted over by hand. Every section had to be painted more than 10 times in order for the paintbrush strokes to disappear. The whole thing is here ... https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/robowar-restoration-attempt-

Looking for references for a color match of the blue used on a Gottlieb Pin Up play field. It has an odd purple tint to it, or I may have bad eyesight. LOL

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Does anyone have suggestions for what cabinet paint to use for a Gottlieb Big Indian/Big Brave?

This one post validates the off white for space mission. Definitely worth a read:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/handshake-in-space-space-mission-#post-6867770

Thanks!
Yeah that post was meant to be read with an element of humor. I spent all this time mixing these dumb paints trying to get it perfect to only find I could just use the color right out of the bottle anyway.

Hello All,

I made a unique post advising what colors I used for a repaint of a Bally Star Trek. sparky672 advised that this thread is where that information belongs. It appears that most info here is relative to playfield repairs which is invaluable. What I have is the colors to repaint, not touch up, a Bally ST cabinet.

Rustoleum Sunburst Yellow

Rustoleum/American Accents Poppy Red

Rustoleum/American Accents Ink Blue

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Thank you Sir. Thought it may be incorrect placement. Thank you for the heads up!

Data East Star Wars cabinet blue
After a few attempts to computer color match at Home Depot I ended up using S-G-560 Jazz blue from some swatches they had. It’s pretty close if anyone needs help on this

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Hello, anyone have experience paint matching a Gottlieb Gladiators cabinet and playfield? This is my first Pinball machine and it's in pretty decent shape, but I would definitely like to touch up a few areas. Thanks in advance.
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I'm looking to do some touch-ups on a Williams Grand Prix. Playfield isn't too bad, but I need to do it before I go any further with Novus, wax, etc. Does anyone have any recommendations as to paint colors and mixes? Also, kind of a noob question, but here goes: Would Williams have used the same paint colors for different games of the same era? In other words, could the shades of blue, red yellow be the same on Aztec, Space Mission or Grand Prix?

If it were only that staright forward.

Take three of the same pins that were in three different enviornments and the orginal playfield paint colors likely wouldn't exactly match one another. Sunlight fade, games played how well the playfield was cared for all come into play.

Before you do any touch ups at a minimum you want to clean the playfeild with Novus2. If the playfeild is planked and paint is starting to chip there's little you can do to save it. It's best to chip the loose paint off to where it is properly adhered as it will eventually work loose anyway.

Thanks @garrett, The playfield paint was in pretty good shape, but had really bad ballswirls. There was also some mylar in front of the slings, outhole and top kickout hole. It was installed over the ballswirls and looked crazy. I removed it, but did lose a bit of paint :/ Trust me it looks much better than it did, lol. For the rest of the playfield I used the Magic Eraser with alcohol method, and it came out nice, but of course is very dull. I've been working on painting the trim circles around the inserts today, and hope to mix colors for the rest soon. I'm kicking around the idea of installing a playfield protector, as all the inserts are sunken pretty badly. Anyone have any thoughts on that? Thanks, Rob