Complete Bally Lost World

[M4carp]

That’s annoying, maybe it was laying on the floor flat in a garage at some point and soaked some oil up?
Looking good though.

 

[Moonraker]

eventually got onto the stencilling. base yellow has been tricky due to some sort of issue in the bottom edge of the cabinet woodwork, the paint kept lifting. looks like the wood there has been contaminated with some sort of chemical.

Some of the bottom edge yellow paint has lifted again as i pulled off the stencil. I’ll try to sort it out once i’ve done the second stencil colour.

the chemical is most likely to be the filler. We had a similar problem when painting our stairs after filling certain holes, water based paint really brings out the oil... you have to use oil based paint or seal it in first.

 

[AlanJ]

Another nice sunny day, so on with another layer of stencil

 

[stevebm1]

Nice,it actually looks like a lost world bottom cab now,hope your planning to hammer the correct serial number in it like bally did

 

[M4carp]

Nice,it actually looks like a lost world bottom cab now,hope your planning to hammer the correct serial number in it like bally did

You can still just about see it, I was tempted to carry on sanding over mine that I’m doing as it looks crap. I will just build the paint up instead
I don’t mind the backbox one though.

 

[AlanJ]

Had a few days off but picked up again and made a start on the final side of the cab.

The paint dried in 90 seconds in the bright sunshine.

 

[AlanJ]

all the stencilling done.


I’ll let this dry out for 24 hours then it’s a week of clearcoating. takes 2 days per side of the cabinet and the head. The head also needs the front edges clear coating. 7-8 days in total. The clear is soft for months after, so I will fit metal corner protectors to keep the legs away from the clear as much as i can. Even with the metal protectors the legs sometimes dig into the clear though.

Once I get the cab on some legs I can move it into the pin room and then I can start sanding and polishing all the metalwork in the garage.

 

[AlanJ]

Love the clear coating. It works especially well with the matt coloured paints I used on this cabinet

 

[AlanJ]

a slow progress as i’ve spent loads of time looking at solar pv systems for the house last few days , but at least it’s on its feet

 

[stevebm1]

finally it looks like a lost world

 

[AlanJ]

Starting the heat rebuild. interspersed with plenty of metal cleaning and polishing

 

[AlanJ]

Full day on the refit today

Fitted out most of the cabinet parts


Then resolder and screw down the insert wiring loom


Coin door frame all cleaned and polished and back on


Insert re-installed

 

[HomerRamone]

Orange alert
Sure I saw a cosmic gunfight with an orange cab.. Prototype maybe

 

[AlanJ]

Orange alert
Sure I saw a cosmic gunfight with an orange cab.. Prototype maybe

Yep I chose a much deeper yellow as I wanted it to be slightly different from std.

Today it’s the laborious task of metal
polishing. Made a good start on one of the side rails (the one on the left )

 

[HomerRamone]

I kinda like polishing the metal bits

 

[Paul]

I was going to say the same.. there's something theraputic about it, if a little nerve racking

 

[AlanJ]

Almost there. need some work to finish the coin door and that’s basically it

 

[AlanJ]

Finished, added a nice sheet of non reflective glass too.

 

[Dotteddown]

Wow it looks absolutely beautiful
Possibly one of the best looking pinballs I’ve seen.
Top job that is Alan someone’s going to end up with a pristine pin there

 

[AlanJ]

Wow it looks absolutely beautiful
Possibly one of the best looking pinballs I’ve seen.
Top job that is Alan someone’s going to end up with a pristine pin there

yes me!