Looks really good. The only thing that might make it better is if it lights up. Are you selling it?

Not my cup of tea.

I like it. It's a cool BG to do this sort of thing with.

I think there might be a market for it.

To be honest though, I think I'd rather just have a framed BG.

I would like it if their were some inserts lit up too!

Nice job - looks good. The only thing that sticks out to me is that the 'slingshot' needs a cover - where's the plastic?

I'd rather see the glass on a real machine. With that being said, the pop bumers, sling, and flipper looks out of place. It looks half done and thrown together. My honest opinion.

From what I can see it's real nice. Hard to tell with the quality of the pics provided, which is pretty low and grainy (Not trying to be smart ass or anything).

Lights would make it better for sure, but increase your cost. Plus then you have a cord running out of a table. Easy if it's in a corner or new a rug but not always the easiest thing to hide.

EDIT: I actually like the asymmetry of it. The obvious thing is to make it completely uniform like a machine itself. Not that I would pump out a lot of asymmetrical ones though.

art speaks differently to everyone. i think you might be close to something here

It looks like you did a great job but I would think you would get more interest in a back box recreation that you could hang on the wall with lights and maybe faux displays.

I think it's REALLY cool! ...and you don't need a cord. Just some simple lights and a battery. (I'd put a plastic on it though...)

Good idea, I also think it needs lights.

If you have $600 into it, I doubt you'll get your money back. It' nice, don't get me wrong.

It needs to light up, but I do like it, keep going!

Barry

You want honest? It's gawdy as hell and there is no way in hell I'd put that on my wall. There are some good ideas there, but as an overall package I think it's ugly.

That honest enough for you?

With a BG as the main art item it NEEDS to be lit up, a few 455 blinking bulbs would be good for some animation action and light up the pop caps.

Just put some halfwit chick next to it, take picks with a Coca-Cola sign behind it, charge 15 times the real value. Ebay is simple!

You asked man, and I can guarantee I'm not the only one thinking this, but usually people follow the rule. "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all"

Which is what I'm guessing most people are doing.

The pop bumpers, sling and flipper look totally out of place, the backglass is to close to the pop bumpers. As a package it just looks kinda sloppy.

I do like how you have the plunger...

Neat idea, I think it need to be lit though as others have said, that helps a lot. I have been doing these lately for family and friends. I did the big bang bar cause I figured that is about as close as I'll get. The video game ones cost me about $30 for materials including the marquee. All are back lit ( sorry for the crappy pics). I have a lost in space one I need to do. I got that translite for $12. Something to do in the winter.

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It needs to light up

+1...
I like jsandjs idea better; it is a much cleaner approach too. Now if you could incorporate the displays to read time, date, and temperature you would sell a hell of a lot more of these with it's current layout. I would love to see a DMD under jsandjs that scrolled this info as well! Heck, maybe even do a speaker kit upgrade that houses an iPod dock for the gameroom!
Boom! Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!

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I also have a big bang bar and a mario translite framed. Do you have any pics or ideas on how you backlit the BBB?

Not trying to be mean, but I really don't like it. It's just not my cup of tea. I do however like the single arcade marquee frames that was posted above. I think I'll search eBay now for some of my favorite games and make a few of those.

The BG alone would look better. The rest looks way too out of place. I wouldn't buy it, and if I saw it priced at $600, I would run.

I know plenty of examples of good working Mata Hari machines I could get for 600 bucks, the entire machine, not what amounts to .004 percent of one. Just sayin.

Nice effort, but I think I would pass. It needs to be more unified in the theme. It just looks like parts in a box. The plunger sticking out of the bottom looks weird too.

Good luck with your sale though! I could be talking right out of my ass with my opinion

Can you take Picts on how you wired these to light? They are very interesting to me. I think I'll make some for the office!

Not a fan either. It is just missing something. Maybe more parts. As it sits I would not put it on my wall. I would be surprised if you get $250 on eBay. Just not for me. Just giving you honest like you asked. Good luck though.

Will do. Shoot me a PM, I'll take some pics when I get home from work.

Thanks Nimble, I appreciate it.

Sure, shoot me a PM, I'll Take some pics when I get home tonight.

Honestly, it doesn't look great at the moment. I think you might just need someone a bit more artistic than you to compose the elements because they just look awkward right now but I'm not even convinced that would elevate it sufficently to be a particularly nice thing to hang up. I'd rather have the translite or backglass nicely framed on its own personally. Sorry mate.

It really needs the matching sling plastic.

Well, back to the drawing board?

Personally I'd prefer to see just the glass in either it's original backbox, maybe slimmed down to make it slimmer on the wall, or a box made to look like the original... I admire your creativity and will power to imagine this and see it through to completion though! If I was to try something similar, I don't think I'd include a backglass in there, just some arranged playfield parts, with plastics, and lights... maybe arranged on a playfield... By the way, is the layout of the pf parts to duplicate the layout of those parts on the game?

Come on CFF, you've got to give at least a 20% credit to a nice backglass... closer to 30% IMO...

I like the artistic components of a pinball machine actually on a pinball machine. Pinball wall art does little for me.

Here's a couple that I had framed...

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Are you using a flourescent light in the light boxes? I made 3 boxes myself, but having custom marquees printed and will sandwich the marquee between 2 pieces of clear plexiglass. The light I plan to use in them is 18 inch under cabinet flourescent light. my boxes are 20 inches long and 6 1/2 inches tall.