In most cases, if you have a WH20 then you have busted mountains.

Here is how my game arrived home - in the first image you will see the mountain on the right has a busted tab where it is meant to screw down to the post and it also has a crack down the side, I have indicated both area's with the arrows.

You should also note that there is meant to be an entire mountain where the yellow bumper cap is behind the busted white targets. It was also the mountain that holds the Boulder Garden sign as well.

On the other side of the playfield under the Waterfall ramp I had this hole

So the hunt was on for 1 x mountain and I had to work out how I would repair the existing mountains and also re-produce the signage.

First thing I wanted to do was get an advert at Daina's site ( Mr Pinball Classifieds ) that I was looking for a mountain.......I did that and then set about repairing the mountains I had while I waited in hope for an answer.

Below are the materials I used - they are

A sheet of .9mm styrene plastic from a model shop

Humbrol Model Paints No's 9 and 56 in the brown & tan colours

Tamiya Spray Paint in Translucent Orange - Code PS43

Selleys Plastibond Plastic Filler ( not in photo )

2 Part Araldite Glue

So to start , lets take a look at the Boulder Garden Mountain which was missing the screw tab and had the crack in it.

I started by cutting a sheet of the styrene to the same shape as the front of this mountain 'tab' should be , I also made this a little deeper to go under the mountain as a little bit of re-inforcement.

I used Araldite to glue this to the mountain, but obviously that left a big height difference where the white plastic was as compared to the original mountain plastic as can be seen above. So I used the Plastibond to fill that area and also packed it a little into the existing /remaining mountain plastic for ( hopefully ) extra strength.

I don't have a photo of that by itself but below is a photo of the area while I had started to paint it and you can see what I mean in this shot I hope - notice the levels are the same now.

Painting was a matter of doing a coat of the darker humbrol and then throwing a little lighter Humbrol over the top of it to create the mixed effect, then once all dry spraying a light coat of the translucent orange over it.

Now I didn't like the yellow rubber posts on this game especially under the mountains , I didn't want the rubber posts 'standing out' so I changed them to black rubber. I also wanted to add a little 'cushioning' to the mountains somehow so that when the balls hit them they may be able to absorb the hits a little better so I sliced some black post rubbers into little donuts and when I put the mountains back on they had the donuts between the washer and the plastic like in the shot below.

Once I was happy with this I installed the black rubber posts and I decided to also paint the screws, washer and rubber donuts so they would blend in with the mountain.

For the split in the side of this mountain I just used thick araldite inside the mountain as it dries clear and solid and doesn't show up when the lights shine through.

My search for a mountain at Daina's Site proved successful as a guy in the USA sent me his broken mountain for FREE ( that's what I LOVE about this hobby , all the decent people help each other out )

It had busted screw tabs in a few spots as well as some small holes in the top section of the mountain. I applied exactly the same procedure as outlined above to repair this mountain.

I have no 'before shots' as I received it from him but the first 2 photos show you where I had to patch and repair it so you will get the idea. See the small patched holes at the top as well.

Here is what it looks like underneath.

And here it is temporarily installed, notice  it also has a sign on it now......I made that myself and have a link at my main WH20 page showing how I made the signs as well.

Also the broken targets look crap and they get addressed at my playfield teardown pages.

Below is my Boulder Garden after it was all repaired and everything re-installed.

And here it is all lit up

BEAUTIFUL now

This one needed a bit more work but again I used the same procedure, this time I had to heat and mould the styrene plastic before gluing it in place as a backstop for the plastibond.

It was also missing a large chink off one end ( the right side of the shot below ) which meant it couldn't be secured down properly.

It may look rough in these first shots but it turns out well in the end. I cut the big square edged piece to a rounded shape after the plastibond was applied, and any gaps you see in the main hole were filled with plastibond.

Heres the plastibond packed and dried in the main hole on the side of this mountain.

And here is how it ended up before painting, notice the right side shaped now , as well as a piece added at the front under the hole where another screw-down tab was busted on this before

You can get a look at how this ended up installed at my playfield teardown/ restore pages.