At one point there was a pinsider who was making Swap Boxes to display translites. I think that individual is no longer making them. Anyone else out there making these? I've got some translites that I'd love to display on the game room wall.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mini-translites-now-available-planetary-pinball
That is a link to a previous post about "mini translites"
I have made light boxes out of wood and think they come out nice.
You just need some plastic from TAP Plastic store, a string of LED xmas lights, wood, corner braces
I'm going to make a couple more mini lights, maybe I'll document it in a post.
Here are a couple of lighted boxes my Dad and I built for display, as well as a few backglasses just mounted to the wall.
The lighted ones are probably more complicated than they needed to be.......with a Radio Shack transformer and #47 lights, with flasher bulbs wired on a 2nd circuit. It works, and the effect is "authentic". I tried to wire them with a strand of Christmas bulbs, but just could not get the effect i was looking for....
Mock up (initially powered by a model train transformer):
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Finished Genco Powerhouse:
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Bally Skydivers
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Circus
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Mata Hari
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Superman
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Reproduction (plastic) 1950's Gladiator used as ceiling tile....
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