I started to prep the new replacement playfield and get it ready for clearcoat and swap. The replacement playfield I have is not in the greates shape but it is significantly better than the original. It as some very stubborn mylar on it, which is good and bad. The good is it protected the playfield. the bad is it is the hardest mylar I have ever tried to remove. First I tried to use the upside down freeze spray technique. It just wouldn't budge. it started removing tiny flecks of playfield paint. So i switched to trying out goo gone applied underneath. That was the worst. So needless to say, 5 cans of spray later (yep almost $50 worth of freeze spray) I got it off.
What that left me was some little touchups on the playfield but overall it isn't too bad.
The worst part about this playfield is the area around the pop bumpers. Itis badly work to the wood in spots. I touched it up ok with matching yellow and orange paint. the blessing here is that they are behind the pop bumpers so they won't be visible during gameplay.
I'm not the greatest artist, so the larger the worn area, the tougher it is for me to make it look decent. Frankly I make little kids refrigerator art look like a rembrant.
I have attached a few pics of the stripped playfield. I hope to get it clearcoated this weekend to give it some decent cure time before swapping the parts off the old pf.
I think rather than go completely stock on this (it isn't a high dollar machine I am hoping to get collector quality out of, I just want it to be a player's machine) I think I'm going to add some special edition type features to it. Legs, coin door and side rails colored to mach the game. I've stripped down the coin door (why are gottlieb coin doors so complex?) to the skin and I'm going to get it, the legs and the side rails powder coated. Details to follow.
