My first total restoration

don1400

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Despite some problems and a major dumbass move on my part I think this restored Pac came out looking pretty good.

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For a while now I've been wanting to restore my Pac but haven't been able to score any stencils. That changed about 2 months ago when I get a set from Kevin Moore (talon2000). They are awesome stencils, the amount of detail is outstanding. Having never worked with full size stencils I though I'd get a hold of a cab and practice and get it right before I attempt to restore my personal Pac. The cab I found was really beat, but it was solid, the sides were especially rough and not having all the proper tools I took it to a body shop and had them prep the sides, the rest I did myself.
Had a little bit of trouble applying the stencils, some slight mis-alignment occurred and I gave Kevin constant feedback as to what was happening. Kev is in the process of getting some different material that should make the application a bit easier. Air bubbles in the stencils before application were part of the problem that made it more difficult to apply. When I do my pac I won't have Kevin remove any material from stencils before he ships, I will apply entire stencil to cab and then weed out the non needed material. I did this with some junk stencils he sent me and was able to weed the non needed stuff from a test piece of board easily. I had some problem with black paint when I removed stencil some of the paint came with it, the day I shot the black was very humid and I'm guessing I didn't let paint thoroughly dry or I didn't prep well enough for that step.
A major screwup on my part, I applied the right side stencil too far towards the front of game cause I measured wrong. Instead of measuring from back edge of game I measured from front edge, reminder to self, take your time!
So with some parts I had lying around and the purchase of a new CPO I put this game together for my wife's kid for his birthday this Sunday. Oh and yes I know the coin door logo is wrong that's one of the parts I had.
BTW a boatload load of thanks has to go to Kevin (talon 2000) he answered a ton of email questions during the process. If you are interested in getting more info on the Pac stencils PM him at talon2000
You can see a full set of pix of the restoration with the link below. Even though I edited them I can't figure out how to certain pix to be vertical in preview, theywill open up vertically if you click on them.

http://s593.photobucket.com/albums/tt19/don1400/
 
Thanks Dave,
Other than having the body shop smooth out the 2 sides I did the whole enchilada, had my wife help me apply the side stencils. There were so many dents, scrapes, scratces, dings, knife carvings on the sides there was no way I could make them look smooth so that's why I let the pro's do it. I Stripped cab, filled holes in bottom and back door, filled in holes in black monitor viweing area, squared all edges and corners, fixed kick panel with bondo etc. Primed, sanded entire cab, gave it 2 coats of white, 2 coats of yellow and did the stencil job. I put 2 coats of water based semi gloss polyurethane with a lambs wool pad as a top coat to protect the finish. Next time I will not use the pad, a number of pieces of fiber came off pad and I wasn't able to get them out easily, I'll use a synthetic pad from now on. Stripped CP and marquee brackets and repainted. Installed CPO, buttons, stripped and refinished coin door added new coin door logo and put on new t-molding.
 
Don't feel too bad about the wrong placement of the stencils, Kevin made the exact same mistake. I only mention this because I'm totally jealous and wish I had a really nice original or stencilled Pac. :) It looks very nice, good job!!

Wade
 
Wow someone turned that into a MK4, that is hilarious. Ill give you $500 for it, haha.

Good job, that looks very good, I'm sure some Pac owners are going to be thinking of doing what you did now.
 
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Really nice Pac! I hope to do the same with mine, but my art isn't all that bad. I will probably want to make it perfect and restore it anyways. Are you going to do the splatter on the yellow?
 
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