It was now ages since I got my hands on the Defender, and now It is time to fix the control panel.
The controlpanel on the Defender is a 18mm plywood and there is a 2mm plexiglass sheet on top of that.
The overlay is screenprinted on the back of the plexiglass.
When I got it the control panel was in quite rough shape. The upper right corner of the plexi was broken off and a previous owner had cut it and filled it with bondo and put a sticker on top of it and the twoplayer button was missing
Here is an image of the controlpanel as it looked when I got the game.
The first thing I did was to replace all the buttons on the control panel to brand new buttons.
Here are some closeups on the different areas of the original control panel before I replaced the overlay:
I ordered a new controlpanel overlay from England, I is printed on 2mm plex and was supposed to be extremely close to the original, and it was.
There was just one thing that bugs me and that is that the print is not covering the whole plexy. It is a small white line in the very bottom of the panel.
I an pretty satisfied with the result anyway, its much better than the broken one.
