Tag: sinbad
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Sinbad Baseball
I’ve been playing around with games on top of games, adding different rules to pinball games for variation or to focus on a particular aspect of the game I want to practice.
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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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Rearranged the line-up
Making room to work on Taxi and set up some art studio space so I can make paintings again. Will end up bringing big guns to the office but need to finish up some work on it. Planning to repaint the space mission cab this summer, then maybe that gets sold. I think the garage…
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Sinbad spinner stickers
My spinner art was gone and I set out to make a sticker to replace it. As i built out the art for the original sword it occurred to me how wrong it was to have a European fencing sword on this pin. The playfield, backglass, and cabinet art each depict scimitars of some kind,…
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Sinbad complete!
What i thought would be less than an hour’s work to adjust the flipper bats and start playing the game became a few hours of work. First, after adjusting the flippers and starting to tighten the bats in place, i realized that on two of the flipper mechs i accidentally got the bushings wrong, putting…
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Making metal look great
Pulled the metal parts out of the tumbler and wiped them all down to remove dust. Also cleaned a number of larger metal parts and hit them up with mother’s mag polish and they are looking good. Ordered some oddball replacement screws and new flipper bats and now I’ve got everything in order. Just need…
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Repopulating Sinbad and getting aggressive with the Taxi playfield
Got everything but the flippers done on Sinbad over the weekend. My oldest helped a bit on Saturday and that was fun. Got the Taxi playfield back on the rotisserie and started messing with it. Got some good results from a green scrubby and citrus degreaser. I’m bound to remove some good paint too but…
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Sinbad: underside completed
Reinstalled all of the leaf switches and stand up targets that poke up through the playfield, including the ones that attach to the drop target mechs. Reinstalled the mech that kicks up a new ball. Put all of the rollover metal pieces back on and adjusted leaf switches. Reinstalled the metal trim pieces that meet…
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Repopulating Sinbad (progress)
Apron, top arc, and metal guides all in