My Roadshow has been sat in storage for a number of years, it was fully working up until Ted's Eyes went wonky and while I ordered the part to fix them, it never got fitted and it was packaged up ready for me to relocate.
Well I decided to move it into the house a few weeks ago but it was generally quite tatty with typical art fade and a fair few war wounds, to get it in the house I literally had to start dismatling it and then realised If I put it back together as is not only will it not look great indoors but I always promised myself i'd restore it one day.. and i'd just put it off again and never do it.
So this was initially just going to be a re-decal but one thing has led to another and well.. with the exception of the playfield.. which i doubt i'll have any hope in getting, every cabinet based nut and bolt is being replaced..
I was never going to post much on this if at all but here seems as good a place with likeminded people who might appreciate a complete Pinball novice trying to restore a Roadshow.
This was after it was unwrapped and I was pre-restore mode.
And my moinor playfield blemish.. Im leaving this as is for now.. until I find a new playfield and then that will also undergo a complete restoration.
I eventually decided before I was going to strip the cabinet, Id order some artwork.. in the end I flipped a coin from 2 suppliers and ordered some from Pinballdecals.eu.. other than terrible communications the artwork arrived and entered the point of no return and stripped it down. I am very happy with the quality of the artwork.
I probably should have taken more photos but in the end I spend 3 weeks trying to patch every little blemish.. the quiality of the head especially out of the factor was terrible.. so lots of sanding and filler.
The head and base were both primed and I clearcoated the head, rather than replace the black vinyl on the top and bottom I chose to keep the wood effect as I think it looks much nicer. I'll grab some more photos of this but for now there is this with the first side of artwork on.
Well I decided to move it into the house a few weeks ago but it was generally quite tatty with typical art fade and a fair few war wounds, to get it in the house I literally had to start dismatling it and then realised If I put it back together as is not only will it not look great indoors but I always promised myself i'd restore it one day.. and i'd just put it off again and never do it.
So this was initially just going to be a re-decal but one thing has led to another and well.. with the exception of the playfield.. which i doubt i'll have any hope in getting, every cabinet based nut and bolt is being replaced..
I was never going to post much on this if at all but here seems as good a place with likeminded people who might appreciate a complete Pinball novice trying to restore a Roadshow.
This was after it was unwrapped and I was pre-restore mode.
And my moinor playfield blemish.. Im leaving this as is for now.. until I find a new playfield and then that will also undergo a complete restoration.
I eventually decided before I was going to strip the cabinet, Id order some artwork.. in the end I flipped a coin from 2 suppliers and ordered some from Pinballdecals.eu.. other than terrible communications the artwork arrived and entered the point of no return and stripped it down. I am very happy with the quality of the artwork.
I probably should have taken more photos but in the end I spend 3 weeks trying to patch every little blemish.. the quiality of the head especially out of the factor was terrible.. so lots of sanding and filler.
The head and base were both primed and I clearcoated the head, rather than replace the black vinyl on the top and bottom I chose to keep the wood effect as I think it looks much nicer. I'll grab some more photos of this but for now there is this with the first side of artwork on.
