Some say this machine has the most beautiful artwork of any game from any period.

I recall playing this old wide-body many many times as a kid, it was always a machine that I wanted to find and restore. This machine took me on my longest one day trip to obtain a machine as I traveled about 800+ km's round trip to get hold of this and I had no idea what it was like when I left home that morning.

This machine was owned by an old bloke and had seen some SERIOUS UV rays !! The playfield also had some wear in the drain area between the flippers but I knew I could fix it all up and the backglass was a perfect 10/10 and the playfield itself , well I knew that would clean up OK and with new replacement parts would look new again.

As you look at these - bear in mind it is supposed to be a nice yellow and a vivid red. You can see some of the original red near the removed shooter in the 2nd photo.

I was able to buy some stencils for this machine (rather than make them myself) from Mark at Pinballpal.com and as the next batch of images will show you, the stencils worked brilliantly.

The stencils have square marker holes that line up with the corners of you cabinet so you get them down in the correct position.

I had a mate of mine spray paint the base yellow and below is the RED stencil applied to the machine before spraying.

And here is the red re-sprayed , I knew at this point that this machine was going to be something special.

And here are a couple of finished shots for you.

It really did come up fantastically, I took 3 weekends to spray the red and blue on this machine.

Larger versions of these can be found at the Pinballpal website.

The words 'Collect Bonus' were worn back to the wood in the flipper area , so I decided to cover the area with a red sticker to match the colour and then get the words done as stick-ons and stick them down as well...it worked really well.

The pics will show you what I mean.

The 1st shot shows the original area and the red sticker I had printed and then cut to shape

And here is the Collect Bonus words I had printed.

And here is the end result.

And here are some random shots of the playfield.

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