I am very happy with my 2011. I mainly caught up with the Geelong guys, which is always a pleasure and we should do it more often ! I didn't spend enough time with the more "local" guys. I restored a few games in this year that went into a few large collections. Very "private" collectors that don't frequent forums etc. Always nice to see these games, but a little frustrating that they are relatively "unknown" !
I spent a lot of money on tools. My two recent acquisitions was a Maxus Compressor for Air Brushing work and a Peerless P14 compressor, which will be used for the many cabinet repaints. Earlier this year, I experimented with Home plating kits, which work well for small jobs. I learnt a bit about Air Brushing, which was great fun. Slowly accumulated parts for my own keeper machines such as Xenon, Flight 2000, Fathom and Eight Ball Deluxe. These will all have repro playfields and plastics sets. I will hope to do at least two of these in 2012.
Planning ahead - I will hopefully recondition all the video cabinets in storage (around 10 left). My aim will have them all gone by June. I'd like to restore a couple more EMs by this time as well. I will be repainting some cabinets - KISS, Playboy, Eight Ball, Pro Football and Volley. I'll have these done in the warmer months and reassemble in the colder months.
2012 will have a few BIG surprises. I have some BIG plans late in 2012..
