Category: pinball nights
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More Team One vectors
Added the plastic posts, drop targets, and wood rails (just barely shown), and made the inserts the correct colors.
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Team One, vector reconstruction from trace
After trying to find a place to scan my trace for a few months with no success, i finally decided to scan it in piecemeal and stitch it back together in Photoshop. After i got that done and tweaked the image so measurements were extremely close to 1:1 with the actual playfield, I started vector…
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Putting in pinball work
Tomorrow I’ll go through Funhouse and that’ll mean I’ve got 8 machines nicely dialed in.
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Millennium Falcon mod (final)
Wanted to post the final version with properly sculpted lens (I sanded down the excess), including the vertical striations etched in with a dremel. It’s tied to some controlled lighting right now but after playing a premium on location that was lit the whole time I think I’ll end up moving it to a persistent…
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PinVault (Indianapolis)
Thanks to some real lucky connections, we were able to get into the PinVault for a couple of hours on Tuesday. What a great space and collection! Thanks to Matt, Ben, and Jon, for making it possible. Special mention to some games i hadn’t played before and thoroughly enjoyed: They also had the best working…
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Millenium Falcon mod making progress
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Baby steps (M.F. mod)
Cut the makrolon for the “lens” with some newly acquired snips. Turns out metal snips are perfect for rough cutting materials in the plexi family. Random reading on Pinside often yields tips like these. I’ve still got to figure out the bracket solution. I ordered a cutting blade for my dremel (misplaced all my attachments!)…
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Working on a Star Wars mod
Used the dremel to grind out the plastic on this millennium falcon toy (from the X-Wing game) where the blue lit propulsion area is. is that hyperdrive or rockets or engine or what? I have no idea but it will glow blue. I’m cutting some plexi to fit in perfectly there and it will serve…
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Star Wars (pro) comes home
Friday night after I put the kids to bed I drove over to Brixie’s to pick up this lovely machine (Rob has replaced it with an LE or Premium). What a crazy, beautiful, fun game this is. The more I play it, the more impressed I am. The use of the theatrical score is perfect,…