Alright, I'm going to give all the steps that I found that really worked on me restoring my Ms. Pacman machine. Takes some work, but by golly she deserves it.. If she don't than NO game does in my opinion.. OK, 1st- check out the bottom on the machine. The wood has a tendency to chip off or crack on the sides. Sand it smooth or take weak breaks out. Then fill it in. A lot of the machines had holes drilled in the front to put a bar in it to protect from being broke into. Mine had the holes still. After all the filling was done. This next step really helped out a lot. I would put it second actually. Would be get a good wet soapy Brillo pad and scrub all the scuff marks on the side of the machine no matter where it is located at. Especially the yellow parts. And usually at the foot part of the machine where ms. Pacman is on front. Mine had all but been scratched and scuffed up. The Brillo pad really helped here. I didn't care if the paint was getting faded while doing the cleaning as long as unwanted scuffs were getting gone. I personally like Ms. pacman to be factory as possible. But when I painted the black on the inside at the glass and monitor surroundings, I liked the glossy black better. The game actually reflects itself in the black. A small thing but worked well against the satin paint colors. 3rd- I'd suggest going to Lowes as the paint department. But may be able to find another place that will sell you this size paint. Each color was 7.12 oz sample sizes. They all were Olympic premium satin paint. I wouldn't order any more paint than that. I personally bought one yellow, one pink and two blue thinking it would take more. I did the entire machine in less than 1/2 of the bottles of any color. Probably closer to 1/4. (The blue is called 2-B-4 Pacifica) Perfect match and real easy to spread. Be sure to paint the back of the machine as well, looks factory clean. ( The pink is called 30RR Passion Flower) looks different wet than dry. Would suggest several coats after it dries.( The yellow is called 37YY Sunny Side Up ) This is the hardest color to spread. It spreads thin. So really helps to have all marks or scuffs cleared on the machine in these areas . I bought sponge brushes to paint every color on. But took the sticks out and just sponged all colors. The blue was done really quick. And machine already looked 100% better. Then I did the pink color several times to make it look dark and rich. The yellow is THE pain in the butt. When going on it looked like wet thin mustard. It looked like a bunch of dabbed mustard on the machine. And took as many coats as you feel it takes. But dried very good. Now when all the colors looked about like they supposed to. I took a few fat sharpies and a very steady hand and redrew the outline of everything. Seperating all the colors. I also painted the trim black and cleaned it up. I had a total of 9 hours hand painting my machine and loved every second of it. I wish I took a picture of it before I started it. I have 12 arcade games in my house. All are classics in their on way. All special to me, as a kid reminding me of my childhood or even the way I obtained them and the stories that go with getting them home. But none is any more special to me than Ms. Pacman.. She will always be in my collection. Sorry so long and some here were just probably looking paint codes. But really I believe the techniques I shared will help you get a real nice result on this particular machine. It's the prettiest one 1 have seen in many many years. And the entire paint cost me a grand total of $7.. What's better than that? :0)
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