Merthyr Tydfil
What size playfield are you working towards? Standard-body 46-inch?
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Don't forget while developing your design to allow for everything you need under the playfield in advance, so you can keep all your t-nuts and fasteners through the playfield away from mechanical fixtures. And make allowances early for lamp holes, wiring holes and mounting points. Every switch or electrical component above the field will need a point for the connector to thread through from the wiring below.
Manuals and parts lists will also be your friend.
Quoted from jim5six:This is the REAL challange... I don't know how some machines do it! for every thing you add its like a new puzzle to figure out how the insert light fits, does it have a coil and where is that? Upper playfield targets, switches... flippers... it will drive you nuts!!
-Jim
That's why you want the parts lists and the manuals to hand - they'll give you a lot of information about how things are sized, and how they fit together. After you lay your shots and ball guides down, this is the part to concentrate on next. What's above the playfield is always going to take a lower priority to work around than what's below it. You seem to be doing pretty well so far - I still use VP as a layout and test tool myself.
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