I’m cool

Yeah to cold right now outside.

I should invite you guys over for beer and pinball and we can sob over my nude playfield too, then play the F out of it

Sounds good!

Ok! Then you can see what I did to TAF. Is better than NIB

Can you post a pic of the area by the flippers? I wonder what that ball with the chick on it looks like with nude instead of orange in it since it's a pretty large area.

Here’s mine:

I’ve never owned an original so tbh I didn’t notice the difference till it was pointed out in this thread. It’s amazing to play though! Kicked my butt so many times today then I got 4 blue lights and felt I was on my way to rtu. Then... drain

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You just got a lighter orange, within what I'd call normal spec. It's not a nude error playfield.

Agree. Doesn’t bother me too much. I wonder just how many nudes there are out there.

It is light but not a a full nude but close. Full nude matches the girl. Your playfeild is nice no planking and high gloss.

I actually have minor planking or ribbing or whatever but you can only see it at an angle and with certain lighting! Doesn’t bother me much as you can’t really see it while playing.

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Yeah but it is starting. Is your climate dry?

Man, those colors are way off...look at the roof. I've attached a photo from my HEP AFM...the PF was produced by Mirco and touched up & clear coated by HEP. Here is a photo from the archives of an original PF that seems consistent with mine (http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3781&picno=9820).

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Wow, that roof blue is WAY off in the CGC ones compared to original/HEP.

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I’d call mine peachy nude

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But it's all hand mixed silk screen paint. I would expect matching colors precisely is tough, but I don't know. Also, it's all hand-made so each one will end up being unique with faults and all, so CGC would have a hard time putting a 'mass produced' type warranty on it. It's just a guess but so much of this including the sanding/prep is a judgment call so it is hard to draw the line as to what you consider a fault. Either they are mass-produced in which case no flaws, or hand-made which means flaws, but I don't know, just a guess at this.

Remake vs orginal

Orginal the true orange.
Notice buildings different in remake as is grey.

Also please note original has no deep dimples. (Please don’t start the dimple debate as it just proves the wood is softer today as documented by Kruzman and HSA)
FYI the original has no sunlight fade as orginal cabinet in perfect color.

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Wow thats way different

Bull. There's a thing called PMS color. Printers use it all the time to get EXACT colors EVERY TIME they run the same job. We're not in the 1950s. There's color matching tech even outside PMS that yields results that are consistent.

Yes but how did they originally match colors on the Bally games as there was little difference. Difference between years or manufactures of the playfeild for games like CFTBL that three different manufactures made but was still the correct color. I doubt they are mixing all 13 colors daily. They are buying these and ran out of orange. What about the other manufactures how are they matching the colors? On monster bash the colors are more important than afm. You have a second level of quality control on the other games such as stern or JJP. They inspected or reject the playfeild prior to installation. The rejects go back to the playfeild manufacture. With CGC they accept all which they feel are fine so the errors go into the games without the second layer of quality control.

I am still waiting to see a perfect CGC purchase experience. Everyone who said theirs were perfect have shown issues. A perfect game is zero issues even minor. On mmr there were plenty of perfect games. Seems quality control is down. This is why there aren’t only a handful of people with these issues there are many more. People just don’t know it until this thread.

Exactly. The color differences aren't minor/subtle. It's almost like some paint pigment was "running low" while some of the PF's shown above were being produced.

snaroff

I just looked at my game again after seeing other pics in the thread, and my orange is definitely orange. Sorry for the glass on pics. There is a crazy kitten here, and I didn’t want to introduce her to the playfield.

The second pic was supposed to show the mothership hole, but I failed. I can’t see any chipping. The third pic shows a really nice shooter lane.

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Ribbing doesn’t seem to be changing. I’m in a dry climate for sure but it’s in a conditioned room. Plays perfectly and, like I said, I never owned an original so colors don’t look bad to me at all. Not likely to sell it, so I’m not worried. But I respect others opinions on the matter.

Yours looks really nice. Congratulations. I wish mine looked like that. Great shooter lane. Did you have any minor issues or plug n play right out of box with no issues after?

Mine played perfect right out of the box.No adjustments,no airballs,playfield and colors looks great,only needed to get a new set of slingshot plastics.LE 214.

Just want to say that so far, even though I had to "open er up" and tweak a few (I'd call minor) things. The folks I dealt with at Game Room Guys and in forums like this have been a great help. The community in general seems very open an inviting.

Sad to see some having more serious issues. For me AFM LE Remake has been a dream come true.

GRG even called me up today unprompted to ask if I was happy with the table and to ask if my issues were resolved to my satisfaction!

From Pinball news...
"If there are any imperfections, the playfield is sanded to level everything before it move on to have artwork screen printed on it."

I don't think this is a "drum sander", I could be wrong, there are drums in the picture

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LE #486 is in the house being enjoyed feverishly on a daily basis for the next cpl wks before I place it at my main location, My Parents Basement, in Atl. Colors and shooter lane look great to me but I am not a collector and have near zero interest in such things. The LE was easily worth the extra money, playing this game is an experience.

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Looks nice

Congrats.

It's really too bad that all of the buyers don't get one like this.

Dude, that chromed out Spidey is fricken sick too!

Is that yellow strip going through the building supposed to be orange? I have now seen orange, nude, and yellow in that area.

Yellow from the ship...the colors are off elsewhere when you start comparing. Below are from an original.

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Though I agree that nude laser blasts are odd looking and make little sense in the world as we know, the "colors are off everywhere" is only true if your comparing to the original. However the "colors are off" in general terms is subjective, as I would argue that the trees look more green in the remake which looks better IMO. To me, I don't care if it deviates from the original (that's why I picked up the LE and not a classic model), as long as it looks better and of course that is all a matter of opinion.

I don't think the colors vary widely overall when compared to an original. The nude color substitution for THE orange is the only real issue. CGC should make a special apron with exclusive nude model graphics or something to that effect. Maybe some nude people running while a saucer beams up a stream of their clothes with someone yelling "THEY STOLE OUR CLOTHES" to send out to customers with the nude color issues. Make it special edition if they're not gonna substitute a normal colored playfield.

I've never looked at one of my play fields as often as I do this one. Every time a new picture is shown, I go down and check it against mine.

I’ve been very pleased with my AFMr LE purchase, #687. I probably have a minor shooter ramp issue with the ball not making it around the orbit on the super skill shot occasionally, but I’ve been too lazy to unscrew the metal ramp and make the bend adjustment fix since I’ve been obsessed with playing Zelda on my Nintendo Switch (which is awesome by the way!). I’ve purchased 4 nib machines and AFMr in my experience has been at the top of the list so far in regards to quality, although the others were good too. It’s unfortunate that some people are having problems but most of these appear to be relatively cosmetic in nature now that the PIC 2.0 has been released. My sincere advice, which I need to remind myself to heed at times, is to try and not let that kill your enjoyment of this fun hobby. If you search hard enough you can find flaws with almost everything to one degree or another, and that is certainly true of pinball machines.

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To me, the colors being 'off' is not that big of a deal, but I can understand people not liking it if it's too drastic, but I have not really seen anything yet... all those pictures look good to me, and it's a remake not a replica. I'm ok with the colors being off a bit since it's hand-made, plus, some of the original playfield examples may have been re-done or maybe there was a bit of variation in color on the originals too?

I bought a car with my credit card, it didn’t work, the seller refused to tackle it in a manner acceptable to me and breached the conditions of sale, I did a chargeback, they collected the car and then refunded me in full.

Neil

Don’t forget different digital cameras and lights will make many things look different colours.

That’s taking it too far.

Best idea yet!!!

True. Everywhere was a stretch. Else where better statement. Thanks for the catch. What is the high score for today?

Just saw a Denver CL ad for an original AFM and the colors in question look yellow.

denver.craigslist.org link

Yeah that is Gilberts and very sun faded. Lots of luck as needs a lot of work.

6500 lmao.... i paid that for my low play unfaded very modded afm years ago before the remake.

$6,500 is a lot of money for a paperweight.

$6500??