I dunno where else to post this, but here we go:
I finally did what I consider to be a professional level restore to my Elvira and the Party Monsters game, just finished it last weekend.
New playfield, new ramps, and reworked the cabinet by stripping the old art, and sanding/repairing/repainting it to look like new. The cabinet was absolutely the hardest part.
Side view of the cabinet. It has to be sanded super flat and painted and clearcoated smoothly or else every defect would telegraph through the cabinet art. I replicated the original warning and serial number stickers.
All new plastics and LED lit with color matched inserts.
Tumbled and hand polished every metal component in the game, even put new and correct colored wrappers on the solenoids.
Really cleaned up the inside of the cabinet, and I painted the inside walls to the floor of the cab after a lot of deliberation. It just looks cleaner that way.
I put my signature and a message to the next restore-er in a hidden area of the game that only they would find, but otherwise this is the other little signature I made.
The original translite really looked great and the reproduction has color saturation issues. Unfortunately it shows a little yellow here since cameras can't handle LED light too well.
These guys are original. I have like 20 replacement Boogie Men but these guys just belong in there.
This restore took around 5 months and I don't think I will do one to this level again, it's just so much work. But I did it for me, and I am extremely proud of it. This makes 15 working pins and 3 working video games at this time.