KISS, my holy grail pin is here!!

[Mr Pinbologist]

More pics, 1st one showing the front view of the glass after the yellow has been done.

2nd and 3rd pics show the text decals i made, and the decals applied to the backside of the glass.

And last pic of the silver paint sprayed on. I actually did a couple of light coats of silver, followed by some black, then more silver so it would block out the light completely where it wasnt wanted.. worked pretty well

[Mr Pinbologist]

more pics.. i did a few touchups in the orange (1st pic) where it had fine cracks through it where i had stuck the peeling paint back down originally, that i wanted to be able to block out the lights from shining thru. I havent done the silver over these touchups as yet, as i only did this tonight and i want it to fully dry first. I used waterbased acrylic for these bits.

And finally a couple pf pics of the glass back in the game and switched on!! As i just said the silver is yet to be done over the waterbased acrylic touchups, so some light DOES still get through.. will be done tomorrow...

Stay tuned for phase two

[Strangeways]

worked a treat, Mitch - well done 

[deadlydave]

Awesome work there Mitch 
Really enjoy following the BG touchups and seeing the end results.
Cheers
Dave

[goodolddays]

Nice one again Mitch 
I have learnt heaps from reading your BG restores .. almost ready to try some of your techniques  on my own glasses now .. still building up the last bit of courage 

[JD]

Amazing stuff Mitch. Well Done.

J.D.

[creaper]

That is an amazing amount of time and effort your putting in there

[Mr Pinbologist]

Hi guys i just thought id add some before and after pics  

As i stated before im still not quite finished just yet, i want to do some more with the bg, but that'll have to wait until after the big move back to Port Macquarie   so all projects have been suspended indefinitely.

KISS will be the last game to be dismantled and packed away.. Its still working great, having had nearly 400 games played in the last few months, it get played a LOT  

to put it into perspective my Stern Dracula has been restored for over two years now and it has had less than 300 games played in total in that time frame!!

[Mr Pinbologist]

more pics

[Mr Pinbologist]

and last but not least....

[wizo]

absolutely fantastic mate!!! gee that machine brings back memories 

[Mr Pinbologist]

I went searching for this thread to add a couple of pics of the final piece of the Kiss puzzle, the new CPR repro backglass i purchased a few months ago (thanks Nino!).. after finally having time to fit it!! It only took me ten years to get one 


Have to say though i was a little disappointed with the mask layer which lets too much light through in the places where it shouldn't.. its most noticeable around the "ball in play"and "game over" text etc.. apart from that i'm pretty happy with it, as its WAY better than what i had with the lifted and cracked original.


So with the new glass the game is now complete  I've sold the original to my band mate who wants to frame it for his living room wall, to recoup some of the money spent on the new one.