Not A Paid Paint Advert...

[PBrookfield]

...but as I've reached the point of repainting paint wear on my restoration project, I can't recommend these thoroughly enough:


They're about a pound a tube and a lot of the colours are straight-up, no adjustment-required exact matches for paints found on Williams Sys11-era games. But I strongly recommend a flow improver to help get the proper surface during application, even though a bottle of flow improver medium is several times the costs of the paint, it is worth it.

Also on the website they have a list of conversion tables for matching up colours to other ranges of paints, including a load of the older American paint ranges - useful because you can get these Americana paints anywhere in places like Hobbycraft or Amazon, but trying to sensibly source a bottle of Apple Barrel, for example, in the UK without paying x20 the cost is a real challenge.

Just a tip for anyone else worrying about paint repair on their older games!

 

[Paul]

...but as I've reached the point of repainting paint wear on my restoration project, I can't recommend these thoroughly enough:


They're about a pound a tube and a lot of the colours are straight-up, no adjustment-required exact matches for paints found on Williams Sys11-era games. But I strongly recommend a flow improver to help get the proper surface during application, even though a bottle of flow improver medium is several times the costs of the paint, it is worth it.

Also on the website they have a list of conversion tables for matching up colours to other ranges of paints, including a load of the older American paint ranges - useful because you can get these Americana paints anywhere in places like Hobbycraft or Amazon, but trying to sensibly source a bottle of Apple Barrel, for example, in the UK without paying x20 the cost is a real challenge.

Just a tip for anyone else worrying about paint repair on their older games!

Whats the site name please?? Could be useful for machines old and newer!

 

[PBrookfield]

Whats the site name please?? Could be useful for machines old and newer!

I just had a look on Amazon and well, I'm actually disappointed by the cost of the tubes there. My local Hobbycraft store was flogging them off a pound a colour... definitely the best. They're a chain so there should be a few knocking about.

Their site is http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk but they're out of stock of almost every colour now! Turns out it's a sale price... normally they are the Amazon price!

So I recommend getting to a local store where their rack is about half-full and nabbing some of those tubes... pro-tip: Buttermilk is the white that they paint the non-visible portions of the playfield (for color reflection) and Primary Red is Williams Red, absolutely spot-on, as long as you get the application smooth and you varnish it afterwards for sheen and to remove the matte.