EXTREMELY Impressive!!! That's going to look like a new machine that just came off the Bally assembly line!!  Sparky A.K.A. Treasure Cove North!!!!

Ho hey,i'm not expert in any way   my playfield look better in pics than in reality   ( i choose good pics only !!! ). I have experience only on two playfield but plan to make more.

Circle are hard to reproduce by hand when all the paint is gone on the payfield. The way i do them, i use a pen and a stencil and after i paint them by hand, lot easier because you have lines to follow.



For example i use 17 mm and 19 mm to make this circle. I use a long and thin brush because it's easier if hand shake !!   When i make touch up in small area i paint all the area, the mismatch color is not visible this way. You make a good job for the first attempt, the more you make the better you will come !!  

verry good work,well done Ian,your cab came out good!! i think it was worth the blisters on your fingurs cutting out those stensils.those pf touch ups also look awsom!! keep up the good work. BTW ill have to post my flash gordon project, pf artwork is 95% complete!!!
Magneto

OK, so I had my family over last Sunday for my daughter's baptism and my cousin got his first look at the machine. He is freaking out! I assembled it Saturday night after finishing the paint job on the head. So here is what was done:

- backbox stripped, painted and cleaned inside

- legs painted and bolted onto the cabinet with polished bolts

- backbox installed onto the cabinet

- new power cord installed

- backglass put in place

... and I just found out that the playfield is done. 3 coats of Dupont clear. I will pick it up Wednesday. Then I will work on the mechanicals under the playfield, making sure everything is OK. At a minimum, a cleaning, contact change and sleeve replacement.

...And if BZM is also reading this, I did your Mars God of War playfield at the same time and it is now minty fresh after the touch-ups and 4 coats of Dupont clear. Your machine just went WAY up in value.  

Where did you get your Clear done ?
(...sounds local ... ? )

Expensive ?


LMK,
Thanks,
Steph

Do you have to unwire the playfield, too prior to clearing?  

Or can you leave all the junk on underneath?

Quoted from Steph

Where did you get your Clear done ?
(...sounds local ... ? )

Expensive ?


LMK,
Thanks,
Steph

I have a friend who is showing me how to do it. If I were to do it (if there is a demand), I would charge about 80$ + touch-ups if needed, but NO WAY am I shipping... way too much a pain in the a**. Either you bring the pf to my place or I get it at a meeting, and delivery would be the same.

Quoted from Tuborg

Do you have to unwire the playfield, too prior to clearing?  

Or can you leave all the junk on underneath?

Preferable to be bare, but Playboy wasn't... I had everything tie-wrapped underneath, with 2x4s on each side permitting me to lay it flat without worrying about hitting something under. And I use foam earplugs to protect light sockets from getting any clear in them.

Quoted from Sparky

I have a friend who is showing me how to do it. If I were to do it (if there is a demand), I would charge about 80$ + touch-ups if needed, but NO WAY am I shipping... way too much a pain in the a**. Either you bring the pf to my place or I get it at a meeting, and delivery would be the same.

Ian,

Wow, nice work, congrats !

Please let us know if you would consider doing similar quality retouching (and maybe clearcoating)
for some of our playfields in the future... if you are interested, when you get spare time, of course.
(incidentally, do you use acrylic paint ?)
I am sure there will be a demand (I have a few PF for sure needing that service).

Just make sure that you quote an upfront fair price for both yourself and the PF owner,
so that you do not get low-balled like your mame building 'bad' earlier experience...
(but price hopefully still competitive compared to the well-known US playfield restorers).

Please post or PM. I am interested in this type of service.
(heck, I would even fix a machine/boards for you +/-$ as a trade if wanted).

Thanks and Cheers !
- Sylvain in Ottawa.

Here are a few pics of the assembled cabinet. Just have to finish the coindoor...

Playfield now clearcoated! Some of the touch-ups show a bit but nothing major. Very happy overall.

When is the last time anyone saw a Playboy playfield shine like this:

The whole machine looks spectacular.

Awesome work Ian.

When can you come over to work on "my" projects ?    



Steph