The offer is also good for your Fathom and Centaur if you get the stencil kits, I can repaint them if you like. Those 2 pins are too awesome to not get the full treatment!
BTW... I have sandblasted some original legs for it... but I am stuck with a little dilemna, so I will ask all of you for your opinion... what should I repaint them with? I have the following choices:
- original gun metal grey
- light grey hammer paint, exactly like on all classic Sterns
- a dark grey/charcoal hammer paint (looks like gun metal, but is a hammer paint)
- use the pink, white and black and be creative
Your call!!!
My preference? The charcoal hammer paint. Not original, but much nicer than the original paint...
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This one - a dark grey/charcoal hammer paint (looks like gun metal, but is a hammer paint)
Life is like Pinball!! You never know where you will bounce or where your going but sometimes you have that one amazing shot But on the other hand you have those darn gutter ball where you just get frustrated.
Agree on the Hammered finish Grey. I did all my Bally legs that colour, it's nearly the same as original, you probably couldn't tell the difference. Don't worry about the Hammered finish, like everything else it doesn't as advertised, it just looks like gun metal grey to me.
The offer is also good for your Fathom and Centaur if you get the stencil kits, I can repaint them if you like. Those 2 pins are too awesome to not get the full treatment!
Thanks for the offer !! Centaur will receive the mucho-packo treatment !!
Pins Bally: Xenon - Centaur - Fathom(Project) - Embryon(Project) Williams: Black Knight(Huo) - Firepower(Project) Gottlieb: Black Hole - Haunted House Stern: Flight 2000(Project) - Freefall(Project) - Big Game(Project) - Seawitch(Project) - Lightning(project) - Quicksilver(Project) WTB: Catacomb (In any condition) View pics here:http://www.pinballowners.com/hal-9ooo (please vote !!! )
Wow... been working on this thing on and off for a while and haven't posted an update. Well, it has been slow-going but here goes:
- The bottom cabinet is now finished, apart from the coindoor. I want to swap a door skin.
- I have now been concentrating on the playfield. I stripped the top completely, put it on a rack and finished scrubbing it last night with 9 Magic Erasers and 2 bottles of rubbing alcohol. Came out nice and clean. Now I have to retouch some areas before having it clearcoated next week. I am not as talented as HAL9000 on touch-ups, but overall they are minor. I will take the "before" pics tonight,
Once the playfield is done, all I will have left to do is repaint the head. The graphics on it are nice, but the white is darker now. I might just touch it up...
Update... I spent 4 hours on the playfield tonight. But first thing first:
DISCLAIMER: I AM IN NO WAY CLOSE TO HAL9000 WHEN IT COMES TO PLAYFIELD RESTO. THIS IS MY FIRST!
OK, now that being aside, here goes. I finished cleaning the playfield of all mylar glue and any residue. Next step, releveling the inserts, as many have sunk in with time. Easy technique. Use a ratchet socket and knock it out GENTLY with a hammer. Once out, I put superglue on the edges of the insert on the underside, then with a large flat drain plug I got from work, tap them down flat. Worked great.
OK... I am not 100% happy with my work in the bonus area pertaining to the circles around the inserts. I started doing them by hand (big mistake) and forgot that I bought a circle cutter. I used it on the 2x to 5x inserts, and they are nice. The other bonus ones I will correct tomorrow (1:30am, I am tired).
Overall I am extremely pleased. I managed to color-match VERY well. Even got lucky with the pink, I had the EXACT color. Took me 5 minutes to match the flesh, 1 minute for the orange, 2 minutes for the yellow. Once this is clearcoated, it will be near flawless. I will spend an hour cleaning it up the little mistakes and finish little lines tomorrow, then cleacoat!!!
More pics... The''waitress'' was the longest to fix, as I used a needle to repaint all the small lines, using a picture off the web. Came out pretty damn good. Just have a couple of lines left to do.
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