Tag: big guns
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Custom Big Guns cab painting
This evening I sanded and scraped back into the cabinet to dull the paint areas and also to create more imperfections. This needed to be done before I could go back over it with more paint. After everybody went to bed I managed to get the first round of texture black on. The goal is…
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Big Guns odds & ends
Refinished this part of the shooter assembly. I hadn’t planned to do this but when I looked at it next to the redone coin door it seemed necessary. I’ve been taking it easy the last couple days and sketching ideas for the cabinet while I wait for the spray paint to cure. Also ordered a…
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A “Make it work” moment for Big Guns
I’m taking a drastically different approach with the cabinet. I don’t want to spend any more money or increase the rebuild timeline with this cabinet. Instead of trying to make it look like Big Guns (which is nearly impossible at this point and would require starting over from scratch) I’ve decided to treat it like…
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Cabinet stencil disaster
Turns out I was right to feel uneasy about my work last night. The adhesive stencil took up huge chunks of the paint job. It’s a complete disaster. When i saw how awful it was, I just got a paint scraper and started going at it to pull up all of the small vinyl stencil…
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Big Guns yellow stencil
It was a really quiet night so I decided to go ahead and lay down the stencils and paint yellow. I don’t think I did a very good job with it. I had quite a bit of difficulty getting the stencils on without wrinkles, and when I sprayed I definitely got it on too thick…
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Wet sanding, cabinet grills, speaker
Wet sanded and cleaned the outside of the Big Guns cabinet to prepare for spraying yellow. Sorted through the stencils and they look good. Decided to start installing lightweight basics back into the cabinet. I was just going to do the grills but decided to throw the speaker in too. It’s starting to look very…
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Big Guns: tilt mech & coin door reassembled
The coin door took longer than expected. First I had to clean the wire harness and everything attached to it. I didn’t take very many pictures of the teardown (big mistake), mostly just the finished wiring. It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, but I’m confident it’s done correctly. I need to dig up…
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Fixing the cabinet floor
Installed the bottom of the cabinet. Glued it in place and screwed in 6 places. I made a couple of mistakes when creating this new panel for the bottom but they are purely cosmetic. It isn’t perfect but it’s good and solid and the imperfections won’t be seen by anyone. Very exciting to get to…
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Power box resto
I was able to find the proper fuse holder on Amazon and I got to finish up the power box reassembly. As of now, everything is ready to go back in the cabinet, aside from the coin door. Looking at the “before” photo I can’t help but have a sense of pride. I really am…