Look into the eyes of Medusa
And she'll turn your world to stone
She'll tear at your eyes and seduce you
And your soul will be gone

Just finished a FULL Cabinet Restore on a 1981 Bally MEDUSA machine for client in Merritt Island, FL. He has wanted me to do this project for him for over 6 months and it finally came to fruition. Close to 70 hours of love went into her. Don't stare at her too long or you might turn to stone! Enjoy the machine Russ, It truly is one of a kind

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It's hard to put a Pimp Interior in the newer '81 games since the power supply is in the bottom of the cab!

I thought I would post a few photos of the cabinet before and during the restore. NO, it was NOT a NEW cabinet. I strip down the old ones, re-enforce them and then get them to furniture grade smooth before priming. That's where all the master woodworking comes into play!

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One of the biggest differences in the FINAL result is that I design my own stencil vector art. I DO NOT use the crap that is available online. You can see by the photos attached the difference in how CLEAN my art is compared to the competitor that everyone else is buying. They never spent the 8-10 hours cleaning up the art after it was brought into Illustrator or Corel like I do. Their spacing is bad and jagged curves. You could spend 100 hours on a perfect paint job but it's only going to look as good as the art your are spraying back on. the ART has to be correct otherwise you are wasting your time in my opinion. Almost every single stencil set is crap like this, at least from what I have seen!

I'll let you be the judge... Pimp

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The customer called me a few days after getting the machine home to give me another BIG THANKS! I told him when he was here picking up his machine that it won't sink in until a few days from now and how he will just keep looking at the machine and thinking HOLY CRAP, is that really sitting there and it's MINE! He sounded like a little kid on the other end of the line. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Pimp!

I just looked up LOCOMOTION in the database and it looks really cool. The cabinet art would be a bitch though!

I kinda wondered about that!

If anyone could re-create the stencils, it would be me, BUT the cost would be astronomical for me to sit and clean up all the art!

Thanks for the compliments guys. I've been a Vector artist for 30 years as a career and strive for perfections as well. I was also one of the original CPR artists.

I just got approved to sell MY stencils by PPS. After all the comments and praise from clients and admirers of my cabinet work for the past decade, I decided to buy my own Roland cutter and make all of my Bally/Williams stencils available to the public for the first time. It's the NEXT GEN alternative so you don't have to restore these beautiful, classic machines using inferior art! All of MY art is 1 scans of actual cabinets with 10-20 hours of cleanup involved so the art has perfectly straight lines & smooth curves. My stencils also come with Traps & Bleeds between color so you don't get the "fingernail" of cabinet color showing thru. Plus a unique Registrations System so you get the stencils lined up DEAD ON the first time! Go see for yourself at my new site! I know you won't be disappointed once you use a set of them. If you like, please help spread the word!

Thanks, Jeff - Pinball Pimp!

www.pinballpimpstencils.com

I absolutely agree BillE. This is exactly the reason I have designed ALL of my own stencils the past 10 years as I knew my final art would be CORRECT and CLEAN. There is GOOD Art and BAD Art. 30 years of being in the design industry does have its advantages and hopefully it shows in my artwork!

As I say on my website, "You can do a spectacular job painting your cabinet but it’s only going to look as good as the artwork designed!"

Sorcerer could be done, I just need to find someone in the Tampa Bay area who has a nice Sorcerer cabinet for me to scan, or for someone to send me scans!!!!