Scottacus

Congrats on a fantastic project! 

What a fun looking project!  I know you’ve mentioned that your whole family plays it which makes it worth the while to buff it up a bit.  Was the original color of the cab purple like under the legs?  If so you’ve got a good sample of the original color to work from.  The other nice thing about the cab is that the art work is just simple geo…[Read more]

Most of the playfield painting has been done, just some touch ups and a stenciling of the “SHOOT AGAIN WHEN LIT” lettering just above the flippers left to go.  It’s not perfect but it is pretty good.

Before

After

Yep, I do mostly repair work now like the Martin that just got dropped off with water damage that released part of the top, ouch!

That is a nice looking rotisserie, very sturdy and looks like sits on a bench or table top.  That should put it at a nice height for art work touch up.

Thanks @JR, yes I also build guitars I just wish I could play them well…  Yes the rotsserie is a home brew, it’s OK but not great.  A little to flimsy for my liking, if I sand too vigorously on it I need to add cross straps to prevent it for swaying too much.  Its a good height for fixing mechs but is too low for painting comfortably with a br…[Read more]

Yes LP’s are for the young and strongbacked, that’s why I play semi-hollow bodies like this one.

Here’s what the playfield painting of Pirate Gold looks like at this point in time.  The blue, light green, some black and half of the medium green are done (splits at the middle of the lower playfield.  Lots of black detail line work to do as w…[Read more]

Nice Tele, even better game on the cab

@Bord what is webbing spray?  I’ve heard about webbing on aprons but I’m not sure what that is?

I bit the bullet tonight and started the touch up painting process.  I started with the coconut tree brown and black outline and then continued with the black for the main frond of the tree, pirate’s hat and treasure chest.  This is going to take some time…

Here’s the apron as well, same technique.

So the shooter guide and apron are trash so they both need to be redone.  Earlier in this post I showed scans of them that were cleaned up in photoshop and I was planning on using Decal Pro to transfer them to the refinished shooter guide and apron.  Upon thinking about this some more I decided to go a different route and tried something d…[Read more]

No don’t pull the parts off of the back just the things that stick through the playfield like leaf switches, flippers, pop bumpers and lamps.  BTW the pop bumpers are partially held in place by the light wiring so you will need to desolder the leads to the lights.

Today the playfield was stripped and cleaned.  I’m still a bit concerned about the lower right corner of the playfield, it looks to me like it could have had some water/mildew damage at some point in time.

I used Novus 3 on all of the playfield and then sanded and used wood bleach on the lower right section to try to lighten up the dark…[Read more]

I’ve had a bunch of projects stacked up that I wanted to get through before I could get back to work on Pirate Gold.  I pulled the playfield yesterday and got it mounted onto the rotisserie for stripping parts from the playfield.

The playfield is in pretty poor shape which was part of the reason why I’ve been putting off this project.  In a…[Read more]

@Bord does such an awesome job at Blender renderings that he has really pushed the state of the art to a high level in terms of VP!  He redid the graphics for a new version of 4MBC that should be out in the next month or so that are really stunning.  The overall look of the table is fantastic in terms of light and shadow but what is really cool i…[Read more]

It’s amazing to me that anyone would think that spam like the one sent to me (as above) would ever work?

Excellent as always!  You’ve got a Meteor at home now to go along with your Moulin Rouge?

Hooray, the table is completely cleaned and put back together again and there are no leftover parts!  I saw a post on Pinside where someone lit up Bullwinkle’s eyes on the topper and I thought that was a cool idea so I took apart a cheap Walmart flashlight and used the 8 high power LEDs to make a projector for the topper.  I 3D printed a focus t…[Read more]

There is another sound that is made when a ball is stuck in the volcano on the left side of the table that could be what you are hearing.  It would require a ball to be in the kicker for that to start up.  I’d uninstall the table and download a fresh version and see if that fixes it.

I just played the table this morning and when I get a chance I…[Read more]