Tom's Projects 'n' Stuff

This is a previous project done in early 2008.

Before photo

After smashing the windows out and bricking up the outer wall. My first brick laying experience!! can you tell?

Had to make a stud wall for the inner wall. meant I didn’t have to do any plastering.

Plasterboard – Awesome stuff. very cheap.

TV Cables in place.

Filling in the gaps.

First coat of paint. You can no longer tell that there used to be a window there!!

TV cabinet just got delivered. minus the furry critics.

Just one more thing to put up now…

New TV!!! woo hoo, Warhawk anyone!!

There are many places globally where you can get Pinball Machine parts from, and individually they aren’t too pricey but it all adds up when you need an entire pinball machine worth of parts. Plus I have to add shipping to Perth, Western Australia!

After looking and reading various sites, I came to the conclusion that
1) I don’t really know what I want to order as I haven’t designed the playfield yet.
2) I don’t really know how pinball parts work… yet

Found on Ebay!

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The voting was so close between Napoleon Dynamite and Shaun of the Dead.
So I sat down recently and watched the two movies again.

The ideas started flowing… mostly for Shaun of the Dead.
After all you can’t go wrong with Zombies.
Would be so fun having the Winchester Pub at the back of the playfield while zombies are poping up all over the place.

Ok, I’m tring to pick a theme to make my pinball machine from.

I have sortened down my list to the following:

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Not this kind

but I do think that “The Matrix” would make a pretty cool pinball theme. (continue reading…)