Tag: big guns
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Big Guns backbox stuff
Cleaned both sides of this board in the backbox, removed all bulbs, cleaned bulb sockets, and gathered all the pieces of the King’s Chamber for reassembly. First I need to replace the plexiglass for that part, it’s super yellow and nasty. Took advantage of a dry and relatively calm night a couple of days ago…
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Block sanding and stripe painting
Block sanded the first coat of clear on Space Mission. It’s pretty nerve racking to sand away at the surface I have so meticulously touched up over the past weeks. I stopped several times to wipe down with naptha to make sure I wasn’t cutting into paint. I think I could have gone down further…
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Weekend Progress
Managed to get quite a lot done over the weekend with varying degrees of success. On Sunday afternoon my two oldest boys helped out and that was awesome. Taxi: Z helped me clean and start putting back together Taxi. We switched out some star posts, vacuumed, cleaned, switched out bulbs, and put back all of the…
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Backbox stripe sketch
I’m going to make the lines skinnier, and they will be green to match the cab stripes. Also going to move it up a bit to obscure a portion of the circle around the “W.” I also masked the rest of the Space Mission playfield holes to prep for painting. I’m hoping to do that…
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Backbox spray results
I removed the red stencils Sunday morning but haven’t really looked at it until tonight. This will need to be sanded artfully before I paint black into it again with a rag for the depth an texture aura. Then the green stripes to tie it together with the cab. Still not sure about how to…
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Big Guns backbox painting progress
Glad to (finally) be done spray painting.
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Space Mission playfield touch-ups
Progress over the last week has been slow, but i finished the blue touch ups for Space Mission and painted yellow stencils on the Big Guns backbox. Again the stencils peeled off a lot of paint but that’s ok because I expected it and plan to finish the same way I did the cab. For…
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King’s Chamber
Did some work on the Big Guns, restoring the King’s Chamber. The peroxide method worked wonders on the plexiglass (thanks for the tip, Chris), so tonight I put this baby back together. Also put in all new LEDs in place of the 44/47 bulbs and new incandescent 89 bulbs. Aside from finishing the backbox paint…
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Backbox metal
Cleaned and polished these metal pieces from the Big Guns backbox. I’m not going to paint this grille black, but I’m considering red or yellow.