KISS, my holy grail pin is here!!

[faza]

Absolutely brilliant 

[tonyt]

Top job Mitch

[Strangeways]

Awesome !

As always, Mitch - Love your work 

[billxixix]

Looking good....

[big dog]

wow,can't wait to play it.looking so good Mitch ,homzie should be watching this thead.Going to the pinball auction in port?   that trolley looks the part,nice big wheels

[ddstoys]

Bloody awsome Mitch.       All that wot a lot of patience and son cardboard....   Looked at firepowers artwork today and that's as far as I got.... You really are a master at pinball restoration

[Mr Pinbologist]

wow,can't wait to play it.looking so good Mitch ,homzie should be watching this thead.Going to the pinball auction in port?   that trolley looks the part,nice big wheels

I was wondering how long it would be before you noticed the trolley Cam it sure has come in handy 

And thanks everyone for the kind words, im pretty happy with how its coming along. I've got the backbox in undercoat now, so it shouldnt be too much longer before another update.. maybe tomorrow!

I've got a lot on my plate at the moment, with this one, the Galaxy repaint that is nearly done, and now i have a Twilight Zone that have to repair for a local guy here.. told him that the Galaxy had to be finished first and he was cool with that luckily.. too much to do 

[ktm450]

Great job mate 

[SPURR]

He's the master!

[billxixix]

Really nice

[Mr Pinbologist]

Another update:

backbox now has the basecoat done, finished yesterday afternoon it is now ready for stenciling when the paint has had sufficient time to cure properly.. hopefully this coming weekend!

But first, of course tracings of the stenciled designs were done before i did anything to the backbox. Pics below.

Now normally i do two separate tracings (one for each colour/section), stick it down onto the white cardboard i use and cut through the tracing paper and into the cardboard with the scalpel. But for this i used one piece of tracing paper for the two colours, and traced each section onto its own cardboard piece with carbon paper between the tracing paper and the cardboard.. in the 2nd pic you can see a sheet  of A4 carbon paper under the tracing paper.

last pic shows the finished stencils ready to use 

[Mr Pinbologist]

Next the necessary repairs to the woodwork were done.. not much was needed apart from filling some missing chunks from the front backglass surround section, the rest was still pretty solid and in good condition. pics show some of the repaired bits on the front surround. I didnt get a lot of pics of the rest of the work done, since not a lot was needed.

[Mr Pinbologist]

More pics..  the undercoat.. done last weekend
 
I wont go into a lot of detail here.. not necessary since its all done the same as the cab  

[Mr Pinbologist]

And finally some pics of the backbox basecoat done.. and ready for the stencils to go on this coming weekend 

[Mr Pinbologist]

And this afternoon i decided to refit the siderails onto the cabinet. First though i regrained them, as they had a few scratches in them i started off with 180 grit wet&dry paper and Windex, followed with 320 grit, then a green scotchbrite followed by a polish with some Autosol and cloth before fitting them back onto the cabinet with new twist nails. The last lot of twist nails i bought were too long and would have gone thru the cabinet, so i had to grind each nail shorter and grind a new point on them before using them.