KISS, my holy grail pin is here!!

[Strangeways]

 

Nice work mitch - That's how you repaint a KISS cabinet !

[ktm450]

Great job mate 

[goodolddays]

Looks Excellent Mitch 

[Mr Pinbologist]

 

Nice work mitch - That's how you repaint a KISS cabinet !

Thanx Nino, thats a great compliment from the guru of all things KISS related!!

[el_timbo86]

Just catching up with this restore now,
Mitch - that cabinet looks perfect  . The stencilling looks superb! Keep the updates coming,

Timbo

[Mr Pinbologist]

Time for another update:

I've been pretty busy lately with this one, plus the Galaxy repaint, as well as starting a shop out of a Twilight Zone, which you may have noticed in the background of some of the pics.. no its NOT mine  PLUS now i have a Rockola juke box to do for another guy.. no rest for the wicked it seems 

Anyway a few pics. Some of the coin door bolts before and after polishing/buffing. i did these by spinning them in an electric drill and sanding and then polishing with Autosol and rag.

And a couple of the coindoor being regrained. I used a scotchbrite and Windex, i took the 3rd pic when it was half done.

[Mr Pinbologist]

more pics. reinstalled into the game and being put back together 

Most of the parts had a layer of rust on them so they were soaked in Ranex, cleaned up then polished or painted where needed. Anything that didnt polish up nice was given a light coat of silver hammered metal paint, like the metal plate on the back of the door that everything bolts onto.

All the small parts were tumbled.

[Mr Pinbologist]

more pics, coindoor fully reassembled 

[Mr Pinbologist]

Here's what the lockdown bar assembly looked like before and afteras you can see it was pretty nasty!! This was given the wire brush and Ranex treatment, sanded and then polished up with Autosol as best as i could. It's still a bit pitted unfortunately.. i might even remove it again and paint it yet.. havent decided 

[Mr Pinbologist]

Next i decided to re do the game setting cards in the backbox and cabinet.

i found the images for the backbox cards on Inkochnito's website so i downloaded them and printed them out, and covered them with mylar to protect them and stapled them into the backbox.

[Mr Pinbologist]

a few more, these ones in the cabinet i scanned the originals and cleaned the images up in photoshop before printing them.

I even decided to redo the manufacturers certificate just inside the coindoor, complete with serial number 

2nd pic shows the crappy torn original and a test print on paper. 

[Mr Pinbologist]

And finally a couple of pics of the game going back together 

more updates coming soon!!

[goodolddays]

Simply stunning work you are doing on this one Mitch 

[deadlydave]

Great work Mitch 

[Strangeways]

Really Nice Mitch. I see it has migrated into the house !