Funhouse was always one of my favorite pinball machines. I eventually found one locally that had seen better days. I picked up the machine and there were so many things wrong with it that I didn't know where to start. I decided to install a playfield overlay from Phoenix Arcade. Darin did a great job on these and they were all that was available at the time. The cabinet was fairly beat-up as well. I tore the cabinet completely down. Used bondo to rebuild the areas with gouges and dings and sprayed the cabinet in my garage. I also installed Darin's cabinet decals (wet method) and they looked great.

After a few months I started seeing a bubble in the overlay. Since this was my first time ever installing one I would have done a couple of things differently. Recently IPD came out with new Funhouse playfields. I looked at about 20 of them and found the one I wanted. I recently installed it in my machine and it looks great. I've restored 3 machines since the original Funhouse restore, I did a much better job this time. All of the assemblies were hand cleaned. The wiring harness was completely removed and cleaned. You want to get a machine as clean as possible. The cleaner it is the less wear you will see on the playfields and assemblies.

Additional Images Before Restoration - Playfield Before Restoration - Cabinet Before Restoration - Head gouge Bondo is your buddy - wear a mask when sanding Complete machine Before siderails Playfield closeup Upper playfield closeup Under playfield Does this look familiar?