The last couple of days i have been concentrating on getting the PF back into the cabinet so i can re populate the PF..
In order to do this my goal was to completely re assemble the entire inside and outside of the cabinet and get the HB in order as well...
Cabinet components have all gone through the usual vigorous cleaning and polishing methods and have been re installed into the cabinet. The HB was reunited with its boards and wiring looms..
There is a lot more detail than just re populate the cab and HB etc... A lot of work was involved but i decided to let the pics do the talking.
With the re assembly of the cab a few more new parts were installed...
New strike BB latch
New lockdown bar locking mech
New speaker grill
New flipper buttons
New start and TBC buttons
New coin door
Freshly printed decals
I prefer the inside of my cabs to look kind of 'not perfect or used' or shall i say factory like. Well when i say 'not perfect' i mean looking clean and respectable but 'not perfect. No new floor etc as i believe it kind of puts it out of character and after all its the inside of the cab !
So i gave it a light sand and left it at that..
Another dilemma i found myself in was painting the inside of the cab all the way down to bottom... I don't like the look of it and as mentioned above i preferred the 'not perfect' factory look.
In this situation i was forced to as my inside had been chewed up by the PF support/slide brackets. But it was not all the way but 3/4 of the way..
This area was also repaired. I used marine ply, which is very durable, and painted it to blend into the side walls of the cab... It was glued with wood glue and then nailed in as it was done in the factory.
In the previous post i forgot to mention a thought that ran through my mind in which i proceeded to do...
Where the PF sits in its home position ( ready for play) I wanted to spruce up the cabinet sides which are viewable whilst playing... I did come across these decals you could purchase to spruce it up how ever i thought it looked tacky as some of the colours were off ( in pics i've seen ) so i decided to take another route...
I decided to create a 'star field or space' as we know it, scattered across the galaxy ( which is the pf, with its purple and pink nebulas or gas in space. )
So what i did was simply splatter white paint, same way a Gottlieb machine has its speckle effect, to create 'space.' To me this takes the edge off from being a dark place...
Take note on the pic below with the timber support rail of the 'star' effect... Can also be seen in the first pic. ( killed to birds with one stone
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The PF now sits inside of the cab bare, just with the pops, targets and the back board in place...
