1973 Williams Spanish Eyes Pinball Machine - EM Repair Part 3 - playfield painting

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's video games back with another cool arcade game video if you've been watching part one and part two of our video on this Williams Spanish Eyes then you know that uh we're kind of detailing some of the work that we're doing on it now we're not doing a full restore on it or anything like that we're just getting it where it's more presentable uh nicer and that it works so in the first video we showed working on like the back box the second video we showed working inside the cabinet getting it where it's actually up and running although it still needs some adjustments and stuff so uh today my brother started working on the cabinet a little bit if you saw the other videos you saw that the cabinet's real faded and messed up so what we've decided to do is we don't mind that it's got some wear on it like if you look at the front here see the wear there that's not that big of a deal but what was really standing out was that the purple was also faded so if you look on the back box here you can see those some of them were faded even lighter than that so what we've decided to do is that would make it look a lot better since the Orange is still pretty decent um is that we'd go through and repaint the purple so it's really kind of freshened it up a little bit um we're not done yet but it's making it look a lot better you can see on this side we've got the stripe done but we don't have the little boxes done yet and on the back box here we got this stri R done started on that one but don't have the little boxes yet but you know just a little bit of something to make it look a little nicer and it'll make it look pretty fresh it'll still have a little bit of wear on it so that it doesn't give it that uh you know brand new paint look but uh since it's not faded since the purple's not faded and the the orange isn't faded it'll look pretty cool so that's what we're going to do with the cabinet and uh we'll shoot another video whenever we start messing with the Playfield all right folks we we finished up the purple paint I think it made it look a little better again we're not trying to make it look perfect we're just trying to make it we wanted to get rid of how it was all faded we didn't like how that looked so took care of that so I think the cabinet's about done actually we'll clean it up a little bit better and uh we'll clean up the front door and stuff still got some wear there around the start button but we kind of like them a little worn I mean it doesn't look that bad if it's that's how it if that's how time has left it you know if it's if it's just completely filthy or if uh it's really really faded where it just looks horrible we'll redo it but um I think just doing the purple was kind of cool kind of brought it back together and again you know I don't want to hear any complaints that this thing doesn't look perfect because it's never going to look perfect and something I haven't mentioned yet Spanish Eyes is not a really desirable game we're just doing this because we like pretty much any game we just like fixing them up and then selling them so we're uh we're spending more time on this than most people normally would because the game's not that desirable but we got it in and it's a kind of cool game so we're going to work on it so uh I stripped everything off the Playfield except the dirt so all of that's still there so I just figured I'd document how it looks right now and again we won't be making this perfect or brand new or anything so um there are some guys that can do really high-end really nice work on these frankly I don't have the skill to do it but uh I am going to do what I can to make it look a little better so uh there's really bad wear around this bottom pot bumper now a lot of that's dirt but that's bad wear if you see the yellow peeking out there that's because not all of that was that original blue I'm going to have to look at some pictures to see what that's even supposed to look like and uh not sure how we're going to fix that yet we may just paint like a a border around it so it looks nicer um everything else is pretty decent it's just faded you've got a pretty bad little wear spot there where the flipper was dragging looks like some of that's been fixed but it's uh it's bushing is suspect this uh of course we'll have to rebuild the flippers but this The Flipper where it goes through the pinball machine I mean through the Playfield there's a little PL U nylon bushing that holds it up in the air and if that's messed up or if this is bent or something it'll drag the Playfield and scrape the paint there it's not right now so they may have already fixed it but we'll look at that um of course just more dirt over here more dirt more dirt you've also got around the inserts there's a little bit of wear but we're going to leave that cuz it's not enough to to worry about this thing again is not going to look perfect so anything you make look perfect will kind of stand out another insert with some wear I don't know if we'll reink the black on that or not there's a little wear coming out of the saucer here in the middle a little wear over here um and then up here at the top three pot bumpers you got the same problem bad bad wear all the way around it where the ball every time it gets popped is just divoted out a little bit of paint you know wear wear like that like that right there that's because the ball has hit that area probably 50,000 times it's literally probably that High um again that's kind of a tough one I don't know what we're going to do there and we may not repaint all of this and fix all of this uh we may just fix some of it to make it look a little better so we'll see and we'll see how it looks after we clean it up too um up here everything's pretty good there's the ball track where you know every ball that gets shot rolls along that same line so it wears through the uh clear coat but but we're going to leave that we'll clean it up a little bit and so that's the main wear it's mainly around the pot bumpers a little bit of wear there there's some flipper drag here that we we may or may not even worry about and then really bad wear around this bottom pop bumper too so that's kind of the condition that it's in the colors in my opinion still look pretty good oh I guess I could just turn on the lights too a good cleaning will go a long way in making it look a lot better but uh we'll see if we can get some paint on it to make it look a little better and then the back glass of course is in horrible shape so that's going to that's going to be quite a undertaking trying to touch up any of that whenever we get to that I'll show you why that's not even very easy to do it's basically whenever you repaint any of the color on the back glash you can see the brush Strokes so it's it ain't going to be pretty folks but we'll see what we can do so there you go next thing I'll do is I will clean this Playfield down with a u some uh like rubbing alcohol or something and some uh Magic Erasers just lightly you don't want with the magic erasers you don't want to go too crazy because you'll start eating the paint off it's basically very fine sandpaper um it'll also mess up the sheen um which you can get some of that back with the with the wax but all right so there you go through the magic of uh YouTube the next time you see this shot the Playfield will be clean or cleaner all right folks so we did our initial little cleaning of it basically um we went over it with magic eraser and got it as about as clean as possible again we're not top of the line on this stuff there's some guys that can make this look sick but I think it came out pretty nice though the the colors are nice which is kind of amazing because it's so old and it's got so much wear around the pot bumpers you can see that wear is pretty bad I think the first thing I'm going to do is go back in and put the lines back in and just see uh how that makes it look you can see there's still a kind of a wear pattern there that you can see the camera is actually kind of making it look worse than it looks in person but still got that and still got that but uh it cleaned up pretty good and of course once the Plastics are on it it'll look a lot nicer too so what I'm going to do is get a like a paint pen a black paint pen and see if I can bring some of those lines back that are missing where the um paint has uh worn away and then that'll kind of give me some boxes where I can tell okay this needs to be yellow this needs to be white this needs to be blue there's like four or five different colors though that are missing so we shall see who knows but uh that's where it's at right now be back shortly all right so I Inked in the black lines um again I am not an artist I wish I knew an artist that could come by and take care of this for me but um I added this kind of circle around it down here at the bottom that I'm going to make yellow or I guess I can make it any color but it was originally yellow to kind of hide all that wear and then uh I reink these I couldn't resist cuz they were looking pretty it was just obvious you could see the Cracks around the lens and then up here I just Inked in the lines again which you know from a distance it really hides a lot of the wear this is a really busy looking Playfield anyway but luckily a lot of it's just geometric shaped so it's easy to line back in so I put the lines back in about half of the guy's little guitar was missing um the lady's backside was missing all looks pretty good though put the uh I don't know oh this is the guy's hat put the end of the guy's hat back on these big like this circle here the end of it was missing and then over here these two circles the ends of them were missing so once you add the uh the lines back in it looks a lot better in my opinion and now you could actually you could leave it like this and again I'm not doing a top end restoration but you could leave it like this and it would be better than it was but I'm going to try to add some of the color back in so uh we'll see what we can do first of course I have to put something down here cuz that looks horrible we we'll see how it comes out it may still look horrible whenever I get done but we'll uh we'll figure it out I can pretty much put any color down here yellow may not be a good idea because yellow is probably the hardest color to paint like yellow is really thin and you had to put a bunch of coats on and then it looks kind of runny and it's just at least the yellow I've got it's hard to get a good yellow so I'm going to make that some other color probably if I can get a good match on uh like maybe that orange or something and um I uh I may do it in that that'd probably look pretty good but we shall see so uh I'll paint in a color and keep your fingers crossed hopefully it comes out pretty good be back shortly okay it is now about 3 hours later and we put some paint on this sucker I think it actually turned out a lot better than I thought it would um I still think the back glass is going to be a major problem but we'll see what we can do with it but the play Field's getting pretty deep decent actually now you got to remember we've got it completely stripped now once you add some of the things back on it it'll cover up a bunch of the art and kind of blah blah blah blah and it's been our experience that whenever people walk up to a machine they don't really pay attention to whether or not little things have been repainted on the Playfield so usually most people don't even notice it and then if you point it out to them and say hey did you notice that we repainted some of the Playfield it takes them a little while to even figure out where you're talking about on this particular machine since we had to paint so much right here by this pot bumper that's going to stand out they'll probably be able to notice that once they uh understand it um something's been repainted but we think it came out decent that was the hardest part I thought basically I was able to get a a ring around there and I just you know it's all freehand I'm not an artist and I'm not very good at drawing or anything but I just tried to make a fairly consistent ring around it and then painted it green because I matched the green up here and it pretty good it looks a little darker because uh the the uh the coat went on kind of thin so you're seeing a little bit of the wood underneath it um if I put another coat it probably would have made it almost identical to that green but that one went on pretty smooth so I just left it and then uh I touched up where the flipper drug a little bit there one thing about this whenever you repaint it see how you can see the texture in the paint the ideal way to do this would be to sand that down and get it smooth again and then paint it again and then sand it down and get it smooth again um but again this is not a super desirable title and that's a little bit beyond my skill set anyway we're just trying to make this old uh beat up machine that in my opinion A lot of people probably would have parted um we're just trying to save it make it look a little nicer so again we're not trying to represent this as is really nice but I think it came out pretty presentable um so that's always a problem whenever you repaint it if you look it's like that around the ring too you can actually see like the brush Strokes I need to experiment with using some paint thinner or since it's a um uh just acrylic paint I I guess I could just use water and see if that thins it out enough to where it lays more flat or what but uh one of these days I'll get around of that so we did that and we also touched up the green you can kind of tell that has been repainted and then there was a little section right there that was repainted so again whenever I show it off it's obvious but uh just glancing at it I mean you don't really know you might think that that uh you know like what is that that almost looks like something that's been repainted but it hasn't you know so not bad we think and then and the three pop bumpers I think came out pretty nice you remember there were Rings divots basically all the way around them and they are completely gone check that out and remember too you play the game from back here that's as close as you're going to get folks looks pretty good so uh I got lucky and I actually had this pink color it's it's like a flesh tone I had that exact so I got real lucky with that I mean it was like a dead on Match so all of that I was able to paint back in no problem yellow is always the toughest see her skirt there her dress see how you can obviously see where the yellow's been repainted yellow is a tough color to match and a tough color to uh to get on and have it look good in my opinion you can see if you get real close see the brush strokes and things I repainted that it only needed a little bit there but I repainted that whole block just because it was fairly easy and made it look a little more uniform but it's just it's hard to get that color to perfectly match on a yellow um the little orange dots were a little more forgiving a bunch of those have been repainted part of the guitar there was repainted because uh I don't I think that like the human eye just picks out certain colors and can tell discrepancies and colors a lot easier like yellow is is a good example but uh the orange was close enough for government work at least and it uh it ended up pretty decent the blue is a little off if you look you can see here see how you can see that the color is not quite perfect another problem you run into is if you get the color perfect it won't work all over the Playfield because like right here there's a lot of wear see the wear around it I could have just repainted that whole little block I guess maybe I should have even done that but um and some of the other little blocks I painted but it wasn't uh since it was an entire block you can't really see it as well if you look at here you can kind of see and of course the Sheen's different cuz I haven't put a clear coat on it yet I'm going to spot clear it with some uh just some acrylic satin paint and a spray can um which actually I already did on the bottom if you see the see how the sheen is similar you can kind of tell where it stopped right there this hasn't been painted this was spray painted with clear I basically did this area this area this area and this area with clear just you know real quick and dirty again this is not a trailer Queen okay so the Hat was repainted um well you saw it there was was a just basically a half inch divot all the way around most of these pot bumpers and it is gone if you look close enough you'd find little mistakes where I didn't quite get it in right but basically I just painted everything in oh the uh cream color this is kind of like a buttermilk and then I added some uh some brown to it to kind of dirty it up a little bit these old games like this the white like this originally would have been white that is nowhere near White now I mean it's like it's brown basically it's not even it's not even off-white but the whole Playfield has done that and that's pretty consistent uh old old machines like this the white always just really yellows it's not even close to White anymore so if you if I would have painted that white it would have just stuck out with like a sore thumb so I kind of got a pretty good little um cream colored mix going there and it worked out pretty good and then after I painted it all and I went back with the little ink uh pin and redid the lines that I had painted over which was like pretty much most of them so there you go really made this one look pretty decent I think saved it now again not trying to say it's really nice and there are people out there that can restore these things that would laugh at how bad this is but I think it made it a lot more presentable and once it's all waxed once all of the new posts and rings and Plastics and everything are on it once there's glass on it once you're standing back here playing it I would bet you money most people 95 out of 100 wouldn't even notice that those pop bumpers have been painted around so I'm kind of surprised that it came out that decent and the uh the green here I don't I don't know you know I mean the little Top's going to hang over it a little bit so we'll see how obvious it is after we're after we get it back together so what I'll do next not tonight because it's late I'll do it tomorrow but uh we'll start uh waxing this and we'll put it all back together and then we'll we'll shoot another little video once we get the play field all back together so you can see what the the final outcome is all right ladies and gentlemen we uh finished putting everything back together of course we put a nice healthy coat of wax on it you can see the sheen from the overhead light sh on the Playfield there um waxed waxed waxed and remember we the parts that we painted we clear coat it over too with some spray paint spray clear coat um which isn't the perfect way to do it but on something like this when you're kind of just doing the best you can it works all right so we kind of spot clear coated it we didn't do the whole Playfield um and uh I think it turned out pretty nice new all new Rings all new bulbs uh cleaned all the Plastics cleaned all the posts of course came out decent I think at first glass most first glance most people wouldn't be able to tell where we touched up but you the lucky viewer know exactly where we touched up um but I'm I'm pretty happy with this one really so that is that what I'll do look at this so cool what I'll do is uh I'll uh I'll do another video on the back glass because that's going to be a toughy so uh stay tuned for that and then whenever I'm finally done I'll do yet another video by this this time you guys will be sick and tired of Spanish Eyes but I'll 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