More MultiWilliams work...

Well, I've not been able to get much done on my MultiWilliams project with the weather, my travel schedule and the kids' activities. But I did get a small window of time to put the final coat on the cabinet and finish the control panel this past weekend.

I picked up a re-production metal control panel from a KLOV member. I primed the control panel:

I then added the Phoenix Arcade overlay:

I headed over to Lowe's to pick up the paint for the Joust 2 stencils- Orange, Yellow and Sail Blue:


Hopefully, I'll get the stencils done next weekend... fingers crossed!

Championship Sprint added!

I worked out another trade with Darryl from Virginia a few weeks back. I picked up a converted Tron cabinet for him in exchange for a Championship Sprint project. This evening, he delivered it! The monitor is crisp and the game works, but the rest of the cabinet needs help. I already have a spare control panel, marquee and pedals for it, but that's not going to get it into game room shape. I'll search around for another Atari System II cabinet before I begin a restoration on it.

More MultiWilliams...

Got a bit further on my MW project. I rolled on some Rustoleum semi-gloss black oil-based paint to the sides, since I'm doing the Joust 2 coloration. I'll need to sand and apply one more coat, but it looks good already. I've got the stencils for the Joust art and will try my hand at stenciling soon...


I got to the coin doors done too in between visiting with the in-laws. They were in decent shape so just a bit of work with the wire wheel on my drill and then 2 coats of the hammered finish spay paint:

Started work on my MultiWilliams

So I ignored my kids for 45 minutes :) and did some work on my Joust cab. I wish I remembered to take more pics, but alas, here's what I accomplished over the weekend.

I began sanding down the sides, all the swelled spots and bad edges and then applied bondo. The front corners were pretty mangled and I needed to do one more bondo treatment on this side after my second pic:

Next up, I'll sand and bondo the front and back then prime. Then time to sand the primer, re-prime and then hopefully top coat!

Gameroon Junkies posted about my Arcade FlyerMosaics

Preston of the Gameroom Junkies blog/podcast posted a nice piece about my Arcade FlyerMosaic Posters here.

Sold the Centipede

On Sunday evening, a couple of guys came to look at my Centipede project. They are young (in their early 20's) and it's really cool to see them interested in these old games. They have plans on restoring it to its former glory much sooner than I could. Now, it's time for me to get another game to replace it!

Nintendo Playchoice Added!

I posted a wanted thread on KLOV a few weeks ago looking for a Nintendo Playchoice 10 machine. It's a machine Nintendo released where you could insert a quarter that would buy an allotted amount of time to play up to 10 different games. These games were the NES games, but in a stand up arcade machine. I always thought they were really cool. Tonight, a local arcade collector delivered a Playchoice machine to me. In return, I trade him my Vs. cabinet. I am sad to see the vs. system go, but also very excited to have the Playchoice. He included 7 games: Dr. Mario, Super Mario Bros., Double Dribble, Rygar, Rush'n Attack, Trojan and Pro Wrestling. There are 3 open slots for additional games and I think I'll be adding Excitebike, Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3 to the mix.