Tag: mod
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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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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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Spanish Eyes Chime Unit Mod
Spanish Eyes comes with a single crappy sounding chime that sounds for only 100s and 1000s scores. Once i got the machine up and running I was dead set on replacing that unit with a beautiful sounding 70s era Gottlieb 3-bar chime unit. It took a bit of doing, but I managed to put the…