Hello to all

We are happy to anounce that we have teh BOP Playfield boards ready for primer.
The inserts are glued and the boards have been sanded level.
All boards are now at the paint shop for primer.
We will let the primer rest over the holidays and start printing in January 2018.
Delivery date Approx. end of February 2018.

We still have a few boards left over, if you wish to purchase a BOP playfield, then please send me an email to [email protected]

Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de

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Hello to all

Bride of Pinbot Playfields will be finsihed printed tomorrow. Tomorrow we will print the last color, Black.
We have 3 Playfields available from this run, if you wish to purchase a Playfield then please contact me directly [email protected]

Regards from Hamburg
Peter and Leon.

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Hello to all

On Monday we will start the next run of Bride of Pinbot playfields.
We are able to start early.
Pre Order list is open. If you wish to jump in on this run, please send me an email directly to [email protected]
with your postal address.
Have a nice Sunday
Regards from Hamburg
Leon & Peter

Hello to all

The milling of the Bride of Pinbot playfields is nearly finished. The rear side is done, now we are milling the top side.
The pre-order list is filling queit rapidly, there are only a hand full of playfields still available. If you wish to be on my BOP
Buthamburg playfield list, then please send me an email to peter(at)buthamburg(dot)de with your postal address.
The picture is showing the raw board that just got milled.

Have a nice weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de

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If some one wants a yellow heart BOP. To keep them rear, we are only going to make 5 with yellow inserts.
Please let us know.
Leon and Peter

Yes, the large red heart in yellow and the large rectangular inserst (organge) are also yellow. Its the remake of the proto type playfield.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter

Hello to all

First of all, thank you for your patient. We would like to present how your Bride of Pinbot Buthamburg playfield is manufactured.
We will take videos of our manufacturing proceedure, step by step. The sanding machine that you see in the video showing how
we sand the inserts and playfield level is completly rebuildt, modified, this is not possible with a normal sanding machine.

This video is showing the milling process , in this step we only mill the insert pockets.
https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/2432281750147923/

This video is showing how we glue the inserts. We take great care that the glue gets into every spot.
https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/3241219559229503/

This video is showning how we sand the inserts and playfield level.
https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/2459595387416917/

Next videos will follow as we get along.
If some still wants to be on my pre-order list, then please send me an email directly to peter at buthmaburg dot de
we still have a handful available.

Hope you enjoy the videos, cant wait to start the printing videos, genuine Silkscreening, color for color.
Have a nice evening

Regards from Hamburg
Peter and Leon
www.buthamburg.de

Here you can see how we neatly polish the inserts and give the Playfield a fine finish.
After this step the Playfield Boards will go to the paint devision. They will then be primered.
After the primer is applied (This step we do not show) the playfields will rest for 14 days.

https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/367382724188700/

Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de

Hello to All

Here a short update on the BOP playfields.
To day we printed orange, red and light blue.
Tomorrow we will cotinue printing. If we manage we will make a video.
Here is a picture of the BOP. The colors are really nice a bright.
This is only possible in silk screen. The digital colors are dull.
The digital UV colors only lay ontop of the wood, were as the silkscreen colors eat them selves
in deeply.

Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter

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Hello to all.

Here is a small video of the silk screen printing.
We are busy printing the Bride of Pinbot playfields.
Here we are printing the dark gray. Third last color.

https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/2695150477196672/

We have finished printing the BOP playfields. The picture is showing the finished playfield.

Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter

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Yes.

Hello to all

Here we have a video showing us sanding the first clear coat layer after printing.
They came out perfectly flat. Its not to long but you can scroll through.

https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/512982509546804/

After sanding is done, the BOP playfields hop on the milling machine again.
Here we mill the holes and slots. After the playfields are milled, they get a good cleaning
and we take them to the Paint Shop for final finish clear coat.
Tomorrow we will fetch the first load of BOP Playfields from the paint shop. If the clear coat came out nicely,
then shipping will start on the 25th of Nov.

https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/2377905888986607/

Hope your enjoy a small peep into playfield production

Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
In December we will work on our home pages, it will run under www.buthamburg.de

Hello to all

The year is ending and we are getting the last task done. Here is a small video showing the last steps
of the BOP playfield Buthamburg production.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas

https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/1037927686564551/

Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter

Thank you all

It makes a very happy to have satisfied customers.
Regrads from Hamburg
Leon & Peter
www.buthamburg.de

Hi.
Yes, Playfield ready for shipping are Terminator 2, Alien Poker, No Good Gofers, Bride of Pinbot.
Ready for printing is Getaway and Road Show, next will be F-14 Tom Cat and Black Rose.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de

Hello to all
We have finished re-printing the Road Show playfields on Monday night. Unfortunitly the paint shop is on holiday until January next week.
This morning we started to print Bride of Pinbot. The first color, white. Worked out very nicely. This afternoon or early night we will print the next color, but its depending on if the white is dry enough.
We have minus degrees and achive about 16 degrees in the paint room. An hour before we print we fire up a gas heater, then we achive arround 20 degrees. Cant leave it on because of all the fumes while printing. We will keep updating.
Regards from Hamburg.
Leon and Peter

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We have just finished printing yellow. Second color done. The Playfield with clear inserts is a special order. Now its time for a beer.
Have a nice evening
Leone and Peter

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Merry Christmas to all

This morning we used the spare time we had, before our visitors come, we printed orange. We will have to print another layer of orange to get it more solid, it is a bit cold today -7 degrees, allthough we had the gas heater running, we only get 12 degrees in the printing room. We will let the heater run throughout the night and see if it gets warmer. Then we would have the 4th color on, 5 to go, we could still get the BOP finished this year.

We wish all a Merry Christmas
Now is time to relax.

Leon and Peter

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Hi.
The will be ready approx end of Januar. If you wish to be on the BOP pre-order list, then please send me an email with your postal address and Tel. Nr. to [email protected]

Tony, I sent you an eail letting you know that the Road Shows are ready for shipping, with payment intructions but didnt get an answer from you.
Have a look in your Spam folder, otherwise let me know and Ill resend.

Regards from Hamburg
Peter

Hello Again
This morning we printed another layer of orange which work out well. We placed a second heater into the printing room. Never the less, we have to double print red as well, it is still to cold. First layer is on, second layer will be easy for all is adjusted.
After red it is still 4 colors to go, we will get the BOP finished printed this week.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter

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Surprise surprise, today we printed 3 colors,
light blue, dark grey and dark blue. Today was warmer outside
0 degrees, and the heaters can manage to keep the room at 25 degress, perfect. All work out very nicely, no problems. Tomorrow we will print black, the last color, then the BOP playfields are printed. Next step will be to finish mill them, milling machine 3 is free so we wont have a delay on getting the BOP milled.
Have a nice evening
Leon and Peter

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Hello to all.
Today we can proudly say that we have finalized to print BOP.
This morning we needed to reprint the dark blue, it was a bit shady and prefered to reprint. This afternoon we finally built in the black screen and could print without any problems. Yeah, ahead of our scedule and can take the rest of this year off. Now is time for some Moon Shine.
Aditional to the BOP playfield we are rpeparing the files for some nice silk screen playfield plastics. We are busy setting up the milling files. We should get the plastics done in January.

We wish you all a nice evening and a good Happy New Year.
Stay safe and healthy.

Leon and Peter

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Hello to all

And here we go again, the next run of BOP has started.
Here a small video of today’s action.
We are busy milling Bride of Pinbot playfields, They will be finished in a couple of days, then insert gluing.

We are busy looking through F-14, sanding them and getting them ready for clear coating.
If the coat works out well, we will be able to send them out in approx. 3 weeks due to curing time of the clear coat.

This week we will start to sand down the Terminator Playfields, hope we can save the primer work so that we can get them re-printed.
Cabinet decals are in work, will have them in stock by the time that the playfields are ready, actually sooner than that, in approx. 14 days.
It is not possible to send out the decals in the same box as the playfields.
If you need parts like Lane Guides, Star Post of the Bats, we have them on stock and can send them together with the decals.
Playfield Plastic Sets are on Stock.

We are busy doing the final checks on the artwork of Black Rose
and are getting the artwork fitted a bit better to the milling program, re-adjust some factory faults that don’t line up nicely,
It also means that the many layers must be re-adjusted. We don’t use a redraw program for that will just cause many artwork errors.
This and all the artwork is redrawn but hand, hour for hour, days for days.....

Please turn off your speakers or set them low, the video is quite noisy.
Here is the link to Facebook Video.

https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/248529084720730

New updates will follow soon

Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

If you wish to be on our pre-order list, then please send an email to peter (et) buthamburg.de with your postal address and Tel. No.
I can then enter you into our list.

It was not planned to make proto type, but if it is wished we can get proto version done aswell. inserts are not glued yet.

Yes we will manufacture some proto type playfields in this run.
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

Hello to all

The inserts are nearly all glued. It takes some time to glue all the inserts. Thank you to all that have signed up for a BOP playfield,
it is a great help. We are nearly sold out. If you wish to be on the pre-order list, then please send me your postal address and tel. no. to [email protected]
After we finished printing Termainator, we will print BOP
If you wish to have Proto BOP with yellow heart, then please let me know.
A German page, I dont rember anymore how it was, mentioned that we have a mistake in the color of the inserts om the yellow heart version. That site is wrong, it looks like that there were different version on the yellow heart proto. Ill post a picture of our version. Our info on the inserts are from the US.

Have a nice weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

That is very nice to hear, wow, is that now atleast 8 years ago that we did the first run.

Thank you all for the compliments.
10 more boards to glue, then we can start sanding and primer.
If all goes well, we could get this run finished this year.

Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

I dont know which playfields we will get new in the program yet. For this year we are just consentrating to get the running projects done.
Terminator 2, Bride of Pinbot, Getaway and Black Rose, Lots of work for Pinball Brothers with Queen and Alien.
As soon as we hae finished the running repro Playfields, we will speak to PPS about further projects.

Inserts are glued in the BOP boards, Next week we will primer the boards and get them ready for printing. We will take the screens to the screen maker next week aswell.

Regards from Hamburg
Peter

Plastic playfield set are getting done. We are silk screen printing them to get true solid colours.
We will carefully match the colours.

Hello to all

We wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2024.
Starting good with announcing that we will have the Bride of Pinbot Playfield Plastics sets ready together with the playfield.
We spent hours, days, months.... getting the art work done. We don’t use a re-draw program or, like, copy and paste the stars and dots,
they are all re-drawn by hand, pixel for pixel. No star or dot is like the other, we wanted to keep the character alive. We also kept the dots
in the plastic "item no". Can be seen in all black plastics were the item No. is white, in the area were a dot should be displayed you will see the colour in the
the Item No. We didn’t want to digital print for we want solid colours, like a repro should be, printed in silk screening method.
Print has the white print protection.

The price for the set will be Euro 135. If the set stays in the EC, price is + VAT. The plastic set can be shipped with the playfield, no extra shipping cost.

We have taken the screens to the screen maker to get the Playfield screens made. Im a bit careful with time schedules, lots of holidays in the past and most companies pick up work next week. Planned was to start printing next week, hope we get the screens quickly.

Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

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Thank you.

Here is an image of the original laid next to our repro. Except that you can see printing lines (Scratches) on the original, I think we hit the grey to 99%
We are in no way perfect, and we also make mistakes, but we are always trying to get as close as possible to the original, that’s why the only way to get the parts
done as close as possible is to manufacture them in the same procedure that was used in production. Printing in silk-screening method will give you solid colours.
Yes, it is way more work, printing digital it will take 20 minutes, printing with silkscreen you will be starting to mix the colours, test printing each colour until it matches once dried out. For each colour you need to make a screen. 7 colours on BOP Plastic set. For each colour you need mount, adjust the screen into the machine. Test printing and adjusting to hit the position. Silk-screening takes days to get the batch printed, digital a couple of hours.
The outcome quality can be measured as, silk-screening takes longer but the outcome is miles better.

Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

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Hello to all

Today we have finished cutting the Bride of Pinbot Playfield Plastic Sets. They turned out beautiful. Colours match the original plastics, looking clear and bright.
The picture is showing the full set.
They are ready for shipping.
We hope that we can start printing the BOP Playfields next week, all is set up, we are waiting for the screens.
If you wish to purchase a set, then please send me an email to [email protected]
If you wish to purchase a Playfield and a Plastic set, both can be sent in the same parcel.

We wish you all a pleasant weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

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Moin moin to all.

We have started to print Bride of Pinbot.
Today we printed white. Outcome is nice, very smooth.
Tomorrow we will continue.

Due to exploding energy and material prices, we are also forced to higher our price.
BOP Silk Screened Playfield Euro 824.
If the Playfield remains in the EC, it will be 19% VAT added.

If you wish to purchase a plastic set with the playfield, it is possible to shipping both in the same box.
BOP Silk Screened Plastic Set, Special Offer only combined with the Playfield Euro 110

If you wish to be added to our pre-order list, then please send me an Email to [email protected] with your postal address and Tel. No.

Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

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What a sucsessful day today.
Ron and Leon managed to print 3 colors today, Yellow, Grey and Orange.
Colors are spot on, perfect registration.
5 colours to go.

Have a nice day
Ron, Leon and Peter

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The rest of the artwork continues on the plastics with the 2 flasher domes, from players view it lines up with the breasts.

Moin moin to all

Yes, the yellow heart is the proto type edition. We have made 5 with yellow heart to still keep them rare.

Regards from Hamburg
Peter

Thank you. This is what motivates us, satisfied Customers.
Regards from sunny Hamburg

Ron, Leon and Peter

Moin moin to all.
And here we go again, Sun is shining in Hamburg, what a nice day.
Even though we had to do a fix, this good weather makes up for all.
Ecstasy The E - C
As you can see in the pictures, there is a flaw in the light blue screen. Luckely Ron and Leon noticed this on the first print. The boys repaired the screen and printed light blau. We will print 1 more color today, then we are still in schedule, now it is dark grey.
Tomorrow we will the print the dark blue and the final color black.
We wsh you a nice day
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

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And here is the last color for today
Dark Grey.

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From mirco?

No, look carefully. Frame of " Danger High Voltage" slight detials in the legs, in the middle of the payfield 2 Longer Stripes. Dark
Grey is not alot. Tomorrow is the Dark Blue, that is also not alot, a bit more than Dark Grey. And if all goes well, we will print Black tomorrow as well.

Yes, 9 colours on BOP.
Next week we will bring the screens to the screen maker for him to copy in Getaway, not quite sure, but its 12 or 13 colours.

Hello to all.
The second last colour has been printed, dark blue.
Now we will start with the last colour black.
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

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Moin moin to all

Yeah, black is printed, the Bride of Pinbot
playfield are now finished printed. Proud of my boys,
they printed these alone for the first time. I’m at home curing my back. Wow, record time and very very nice printing result.

Now the next step is to finish the milling. 1 milling machine is free, we will start on Monday.

Wish you all a good weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter

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Here we have a short video showing the print of the black.
Lower your volume, in the back ground you can hear the Alien playfields getting finish milling.

https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/359259293680638

Hello to all.
Sorry the late update on the Bride of Pinbot playfields. I have been down for over a week with back ake, Ron and Leon have taken care of the production. Here is a short video on the final milling process of BOP playfields. They are nearly ready for shipping, next week they will get the final clear coat.

https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/934917994682926

And here are some pictures.
Here you can see the normal, standard playfield and the Proto Type playfields with yellow inserts.

Today we will collect the screens for Getaway playfields. As soon as we have polished and packed the Alien playfields, we will start printing Getaway. We will update on the printing process.

Wish you all a good weekend.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon, Ron and Peter

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Unfortunately no. We would like to have it, for those decals we purchased for our BOP are totally crap.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter

Thanks for your answer. Ill try the decals from Rick PPS