Repainting The Playfield Of This DESTROYED Bally 'Lost World' Pinball Machine!
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Nice to see all the care and passion that you have for restoring these older machines. It destroys me to see ANY pinball table fall into disrepair and neglect.
Every game that you repair/restore is a bit of classic gaming history saved for others to experience.
Thumbs up!
Thanks Matthias, we appreciate the kind words.
It's hard to imagine a trained artist doing much better. Masterful work!
Thanks Larry, that's nice of you to say, glad you enjoyed it!
You always say you are not a painter, but you always make these destroyed playfields look amazing when you're done.
The colour by numbers thing is a good reference really as that is pretty well how an artist does the work. The will do the outline, define the zones and then do the fill colours, and then the accents on top. The outline is drawn in black, then the wings get the solid yellow, then the mustard coloued shading and accents get added on top. You really do a great job. :)
Aw shucks, thanks Brendan :) We'll see you on the next video... which would be.... Tomorrow!
Not sure why but these videos of you painting the play fields always tend to be my favorite. Could be the groovy music. Keep up the great work
Thanks Flipptop, we appreciate you hanging out with us!
Drafting circle templates and french curves may help drawing in the black lines. Use two templates with a bigger circle in the bottom and the diameter you want to use on top. That will keep the paint from bleeding underneath. Same with using a french curve.
Hi Ron,
Since you mentioned the possibility of making use of water slide decals, I thought I'd point out an alternate possibility;
You might consider investing in a Cricut device (cricut.com) to make either small stencils, or cut out letters you can then clear coat over.
Either way, I truly admire your eye for color matching, and your steady hand... The playfield looks great!
Great to see this machine rescued from destruction. Very satisfying to bring life back to these old machines. I often wonder how they were so neglected to end up on the brink of the landfill. I saved a Jr. Pac-man machine about a year ago. The bottom had rotted out and the guts had fallen out everywhere. I have to say you are more of an artist than you give yourself credit for Ron. I enjoy your use of artistic license! Thanks for your videos.
Thanks Kelly, we appreciate it as always. By the way, just so you know, we love the Cops around here, I know you guys are going through a bunch of static right now all over the country. Thanks for watching!
Nice work Ron! In my own projects I live by the motto "if it's better than it was, then it was worth the effort", and that artwork is most certainly a LOT nicer than it was! Whoever buys/bought this table from you will no doubt be super happy with how it looks.
Thanks Chris, we appreciate the nice words....
I always enjoy Ron's painting, like a modern Bob Ross: here's a happy little wing or there's a circle and you know what let's give it a little friend. 😁
LOL I need some Titanium White
@@LyonsArcade you were rocking that cadmium yellow u need a paint hock now lol
Not enough black and trees for the big Bob Ross
You did an awesome job painting this. I think you're lieing about being an artist. If you're not busy you want to drive to Indiana and give me a hand touching up our Genesis game we just got. I really appreciate all you do with these videos. They've really helped us get our game working well.
Very cool Lyn.... you can touch it up yourself, all you need to do is go pick up some acrylic paints and a some spray clear coat at Michaels... if I remember correctly, on Genesis almost everything is grey black or pink :) That's a great game by the way! See you on the next video...
for not being a artist you do a damn good job in painting the design back to its original state friend i would always come to you keep up the excellent work
I was skeptical at first. But that looks pretty darn good. The clear really brings out the colour.
It was a little shaky there in a couple places, lol but it turned out pretty good.
Thanks again for being such a great teacher. You are the best on TH-cam. I am just trying to learn about something that interests me and have not yet found anyone who even comes close to the knowledge you give to people who are novice. Not only that, you have a better personality. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you David for the kind words. The point I try to get across in my videos is this David: We're all novices. The difference between the people that accomplish things and those that don't is often not knowledge, but the ambition to actually try it. So often I'm working on things that I don't have any idea what I'm doing, but I do it anyways, LOL We will see you on the next video, thanks again!
@@LyonsArcade thanks! I learned how to fix Nintendos and have been able to gift them to family and friends for a few years now. But, I have never once tried to work on an arcade game or a pinball machine, even after owning a few. Pre internet days. Now, I am very interested in buying an em pinball machine that I can refurbish. Simply because I like the challenge of mechanics and I am not a computer guy. Thanks for all you show us. And thanks for being such a personable guy.
Nice job! Love your videos. Very thorough, and nice to watch. I have repaired a couple of my games and pinballs with your help. It's great to know there are people like you guys keeping these games alive. I enjoy fixing them also.
Thank you John, we appreciate you watching!!!
Ron you might not be an artist but you're certainly a poet, and you didn't even know it!
Oh I know It, LOL Thanks for watching Trey!
The repaint ended up looking really good (other than the text, which was my only real concern). My wife watched and also stated that the metamorphosis was impressive (she's a tough critic). She even chuckled at the "boob" comment. ;-). As for the missing text on the bonus tree, maybe have a local calligraphist take a white paint pen and rewrite the labels for you? Wouldn't cost much, if anything, and shouldn't be too tough to find someone capable (I am like you, there's no way I could pull it off... LOL). As stated on the last video, thanks from all of us pinheads for bringing the machine back to life, and not taking the easy way out and tossing her in the dumpster.
Thank you Troy, we're trying to keep them running :) We could pay a calligraphist I guess, but I don't believe they'd get all 10 looking the same, exactly... so you'd still have the same problem but be out 100 bucks and two days of time waiting on them to show up...
@@LyonsArcade if it would cost 100.00 to have it done, then I too would leave it as is. ;-). Not enough of a return on investment, and what you did with leaving the bottom one intact worked out well. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.
When that silver ball is flying around that play field, and the lights are a flicking, and the score reels are dancing
no one would know a thing about the paint job. Excellent work Ron.
Thanks James, I appreciate you watching!
"gotta get the boob looking better." - I like this man's priorities.
It was an absolute deal breaker.
I recently did a Paragon, which is the big brother of this game. Spent some time with it and it turned out great. Its good too see these machines will get enjoyment for years to come. I would imagine maybe half of these machines from this time period are still around anymore.
Yeah it's a shame so many are gone, I've kind of felt over the years it's even less than half but there's no way to really know at the moment.... I've heard of lots of operators who used to throw away machines often.
You know it. These manufacturers never thought of how long these machines would last. Many were replaced in these arcades, only to be forgotten and neglected in an old barn somewhere. Enjoying your channel.
It adds character to the game and honestly the difference in color tones on the green goes along with the wierd wear its got anyways when ur playing it u wont even notice it
If shipping wasnt stupid expensive id say id buy it and ship it to northwest tn looks like a fun little classic
Yeah it's pretty fun for sure!
Amazing job. You are the Bob Ross of pinball
Bless you for keeping these wonderful artifacts alive.
Thank you, we appreciate you watching us do it!
This is beyond restoration, this is historical preservation.
Thanks James, that's nice of you to say!
For the black line redraw, you might try a french curve stencil for some of those trick free hand curves.
Those are interesting, never heard of them before.
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Spectacular! Looks way better than compared to what it was.
Thanks Christopher, we appreciate you watching!
You've done an awesome job so far, I'd certainly be proud to have that in my games room
Why, Thank you Mike Kelly
The wings came out great! The whole thing looks good, way better than before.
Your paint jobs are getting a lot better!
I think i'm about the same, some of these games are a little easier to repaint than others, it depends on the colors and the artwork.... I've done some in the past that turned out better than this for sure!
Amazing work so far! You berate your own artistic efforts but you actually do good work. If you are so concerned for the appearance of repairs, why not talk to the local high school art department and see if anyone would be interested in volunteering to restore the artwork or even turn it into an internship for the student. They learn but get hands on experience with equipment older than they are! 8D
Your videos on Sea Wolf and Tempest machines have me looking at my projects in the house that I am procrastinating on. Keep up the great videos!
Alfred usually we're working on a deadline trying to get something done pretty quick and don't really have time to wait on an artist to come do their thing so we just do it ourselves...
Thank you for watching, we'll see you on the next video!
Fantastic job Ron. Saved another one!
Thanks Bob, we appreciate you watching!
As you said yesterday, indeed, this video was a _doozy!_ Personally I like the look of the mottled worn-out purple. As a suggestion; why not use appropriately sized coins/washers or any other small discs the next time you have to re-black circles (as you did with the insulation tape)!? Looks SOOooo much better dude,
Thanks man I appreciate it! I could trace some circles or something but the main problem is my paint pen isn't the right size, so i'm doing it all in one motion and it comes out looking thiccc like Toni Braxton
@@LyonsArcade LOL - Nice!
Great work I thought it was too shot to be save ,but it bought it a new lease of life 👍🤣
Wait till you see us 'fix' the coin door!
Great as always to see these gems coming back to life...cheers
Thanks Chris, we appreciate you watching!
Great work on the gameboard and onto part 3!
Thank you melanated prose!
Great job Ron, another pinball brought back from the graveyard. Looking forward to see you fix the hardware side of it. The only minor thing that I could see was the black outlines around the numbers, they are just a bit too thick and therefore stick out. I do have a question though, I saw there is a playfield overlay for this machine, I know it will add to the cost of restoring it, but in my opinion this would be a perfect candidate and I this it would add more to the value of the machine than what it would cost. My guess is that it might even same some time. One tip regarding the outholes, you might look into 3d-printing a rim for them, you can already find the design on thingiverse, it would print in less than 10 minutes and they will look great.
The overlays are alright I've done them in the past on a few games... We're in a position where we're kind of getting top dollar for all of these machines after we fix them and an overlay even if it made it nicer wouldn't really earn us any more money so it would kind of be money we wouldn't get back, and just as a personal thing I'd rather have a touched up playfield than one with an overlay on it. They're great for some situations though...
Ron, you have a pretty steady hand inking those lines in. I would be all over the place. Maybe I drink too much caffeine. Lol
Me too, I love my Diet Pepsi, LOL
Watching your videos almost makes confident enough to attempt things like this myself... almost lol
You can do it!
you've done a stunning job
So very well done...awesome!!!
Another classic bought back to life..
Yup, another one out of the landfill :)
Looks awesome, Ron! You guys do tremendous work!
Thanks Real Hammer Billy Lee!
It looks PERFECT!! I would never notice the repairs, you are really talented!!
Thanks Christopher, that's very nice of you to say!
Looks great, considering the condition it was in, great job
Always love seeing these old machines saved and going to new homes
Thanks Lee, we appreciate you watching!
Excellent job Joe, you've inspired me to try some paint repairs on my game
Glad you enjoyed it, by the way, stay tuned for the pinball machine we do in 2 weeks, you're gonna LOVE that one.
Thanks for all the info keep on doing what you do so well
Great job !...looks a million times better.
Thanks Andymouse123 we appreciate it.
Nice job Ron! Looks good!
Thanks Tab, we appreciate you watching!
Great work and thanks for sharing.
Thanks Simon!
Wow It looks fantastic you did an excellent job
Thanks Joemode101, we appreciate it!
my good sir, you have mad skills! I wouldnt be able to steady my hand long enough. :D Keep up the wonderful work!
It turned out pretty good so far!
@@LyonsArcade to bad you cant call it the special TLC edition. lol :D
Looks awesome!
Thanks Michael!
Great job! I'm still looking for an old beat up pinball to learn to restore and add to the game room. Don't have any yet since they go for so much
Yeah they're getting a little tougher to find!
Looks great! Nice work!
Thanks!
@@LyonsArcade I admire the confidence that you and your Bro have!
Superb work
Thanks Ady, we appreciate it!
With the amount of wear on that table, someone must have really liked playing it. I'd love to have all those quarters!
Yeah, I wish I could tell how many times it was played, the wear is pretty rough, I've seen some though with the whole middle worn away even worse!
Loooooove these videos. I don't mind the longer length videos at all. Have you ever tried using an airbrush?
No I've never used one!
Well done. 👍
Thanks Bob, we appreciate you watching!
Wow, this is the first video of yours I have seen where you touch up paint. I would have bought that machine.
Well done!!
Thanks for watching Mike!
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@@Doughiemantoo Thanks!
Ron, you underestimate your artistic abilities, first class +++
Read the comments, anybody with any artistic talent is quick to tell me how I did it wrong, I don't have much artistic abilities, but I do have the desire and ambition to actually do it, LOL
Wow you did a great paint touch up job on this one. Far cry from yesterday's video where it really looked so so bad.
Thanks Gabz!
16:30 just the black made a huge difference
Yup. I think you could just add the black back and get away with it on most playfields.... It's acrylic paint though so it would wash off if you didn't clearcoat it...
Love the pin videos. I think you might have a make shift lane guide on the right and you found the real one in the cabinet in the first video, if I'm making sense.
I couldn't tell, I don't think I ever figured out where it goes...
nice job good save
Thank you Joseph, we appreciate you watching!
Nice video !!!! Making trash into treasure. Hotness.
Thanks Chris, we appreciate you watching!
I fully restored my Gorgar which I always wanted from my childhood
To me looks amazing
Thanks Dennis, we appreciate it!
I wonder if one of those plastic templates with a bunch of different sized circle cutouts would help when you do some of these jobs.
Probably!
Very good job.done
Great job
Thanks James and Vickie!
Idea for perfect circles look ooh for different size clear counters/coins and draw around them?
Btw love the restoration deffo wouldn’t mind a project in the uk 👍
Thanks lewis for watching, we appreciate it!
I sent you out some extra fine point tip black acrylic pens from Amazon. Hopefully they are helpful! Thanks for the videos!
Thanks John, we'll put them to good use :) We appreciate you thinking about us!
Looks badass! I have an EM playfield I'm dreading doing the touchup artwork on. The playfield around the flippers is really bad.
Just get it really clean, then draw the missing art back in using a picture of one from the internet. Once you get the art drawn back in you'll see it's just a few colored areas that need replaced, the black lines first to define the areas is the key to the whole thing.
That’s gonna take some buffing... 😎
I like watching as I played some of these games you restore back in the 70ies and 80ies. I never liked the "modern" more computer based games, but until I found your channel i had no clue what made these fun systems work. Thanks for taking your time to explain how the boards work - I'm constantly surprised how simple they were - they sure were fun even though they weren't that complex.
Now like you I'm not an artist - I cannot draw a straight line without ruining the line and everything else. So I have a question. Wouldn't it be easier to paint with the "background" colors - the red and yellow - first, and then go over with the black marker to make the lines clearer? It would make it easier to paint as you don't have too many lines to stay away from when painting the red and yellow. Just someone who has no clue asking.
You could do it that way, but the whole reason I put the lines first is so I can define the areas that need paint and what color they need to be. So you put the line in, then you know where the red stops the yellow starts, etc. You can do it the other way too though, just not the way I like to do it.
I think there's something cool about all the wear at least. You know that it was well loved when it was in service.
That's true!
Another lefthanded? No wonder I liked you so much! hehe. Greetings from Sweden!
All us smart people are lefties, intellivision78, glad to see you over there in Sweden!
To be fair. in the red area it makes it look like an actual cloth curtain back ground. If I could afford this machine, I would jump on it just for its patina and looks.
Thanks shortwave, we appreciate it! We thought it turned out pretty good...
You mentioned saving this thing from a landfill. Are there pinball machines that you wouldn't save? I think it would be fun to rebuild another one after I finish my current project.
Sometimes we'll run across one that really can't be saved, yes.
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that looks great and good enough, just keeping in mind, it is a used machine that has to show it's life.
Restoring it to like new, would not work. We had that ... like with vintage cars ...
I agree :) Thank you for watching crapcbm!
Seeing this makes me wonder how it was done in the factory. Im guessing a bunch of stencils.
It was silkscreened which is a pretty standard thing they do on t-shirts and things too... basically they make a screen that ink can go through in certain areas and lay it on the board, then spread ink out that's one color, then do another, then do another until the whole thing is done. Then they usually put some sort of laquer or clear coat over it to protect it. Thanks for watching Reed Vending!
OMG!!! Your the MAN!!!
I thought it turned out pretty good!
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Great job. How do you avoid getting brush marks? Did you thin the paint?
You can see them if you get close enough, I think thinner will lessen them but then it takes more coats....
Impressive! I enjoyed you recording some of the outlining and painting while you were doing it. How many hours do you think it took you, from start to finish, to do the playfield?
Counting stripping it, cleaning it, painting it, clearing it, then repopulating it probably about 10 hours.
Have you ever tried one shot paint? Awesome job dude
I've heard of it but it would slow me down I believe!
Looks good but I find holding the paint pen in my right hand works better
That's because you're wrong handed, all us smart people are Lefties.
Great job. I've got a Bally's Aladdin's Castle playfield that I purchased on Ebay because the one I had was missing quite a bit of decals/paint...however the one I purchased was at or worse than your Lost World (I shouldn't have ever bought it). It was black and the wood on the backside mildewed....I was able to clean most of it off with magic eraser, alcohol and even pure Carnuba now I'm ready to paint some of the areas affected by eraser/alcohol mix. You mentioned clear-coating the painted areas with canned clear, makes sense....works for me. However if the entire playfield was trashed, did you topcoat your project with urethane or something else when finished? You mentioned toward the end using wax, but don't you first topcoat with something then wax? I've never done this before and want to ensure protection of the playfield and good ball movement. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and again thanks for your video, you did some fantastic work!
If you've got it down to just bare wood, it'll be a little easier to clear, yes you could actually brush urethane or something on if you wanted to. The high end way to do it is to go to Maaco and pay them to clear coat it with auto clear after you paint it. Just depends on how far you want to go!
We just clear the areas we repainted, then wax the whole playfield, we didn't put any other coating on it.
Looks great to me! Is there any technical reason for the pinball companies not applying clear coat on the playfields or is it just them cheaping out and not caring how the machine will look after some years of heavy playing?
They had clear coat, it ate through that too!
If you have text that is gone, you can make them in the computer on printable water decal paper. Just remember to put some clear coat over it.
I wasn't too worried about replacing it, it already looks like it's been altered, you'd be able to notice the replaced text too, and it'd take me several hours more work to get it to a place where it looked like I replaced all the text with small decals, just wasn't worth the effort in my opinion ...
Excellent work, what kind of paint do you use? Regards.
I show it on the video.
Another great video - Thank you!
I am going to do some restoration to an old aluminium Midway Space Invaders Control Panel. Do you have a suggestion for a marker or pen to use for this, please? It's not a plastic overlay type of control panel (as you may know). Would a paint marker be OK? Thanks
I'd use an acrylic paint marker then clear coat the whole thing when you're done. If you use a sharpie or something it will run when the clear hits it, but if you use acrylic it stays nice and put when the spray paint goes on.
@@LyonsArcade I appreciate the advice - All the best from the UK
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Ronnie is that a paint pen or just a permanent marker to redo the black lines on the playing field? Also love that music. Reminds me of a early eighties detective sitcom. The saxophone music.
It's a paint pen, I show it after I finish the lines. If you use a marker when you clear it the marker reacts to the clear and runs and smears everywhere, makes a huge mess.
Sorry, I asked before I finished watching. Gotta stop doing that.
HOLY COW....(although I'd really like to see how you clear coat). Or like what brand/type. I think you did a REALLY great job.
I just spray clear rustoleum on it.
Imagine how many quarters did this thing earn to ex owners... my point - this spa rejuvenation treatment is well earned, right? Great work, BTW. Cheers
yeah I imagine it earned a small fortune!
I saw a playfield overlay on eBay. Is it more of a pain and time consuming to apply a repro overlay vs. paint touch up? Overlay is $195. Plus your time to prep and apply it vs time to just do what you did and clean / touch up.
I think I used about $4 worth of materials to paint this one, and it took less time than an overlay would, plus when you're done it looks pretty close to original (with a little touch up here and there) and has patina on it that's appropriate for a 42 year old game. The Overlays are pretty good though in two instances, one when you have artwork that's just completely destroyed, or two when you have the ability to make the whole game look like new, so you have to put the overlay on and then professionally clear coat the playfield with multiple coats of auto grade clear so all the inserts look correct.
Right. I figured the cleanup and applying of the overlay would be pretty big pain. Plus like you said you lose the original and patina. Same reason I keep holding back on putting a CPO on my Marble Madness. The overlay is a little worn but it’s original.