Green post sleeves look really good. Tastefully done are LEDs are great. The game was made for them. I personally liked the yellow flipper bats, so I left them with the black rubber. I rebuilt my pop bumpers and put things back to factory there.

Funny you bring this up. I'm just getting the metal parts of my Congo together to have them gold plated. I was gonna ask how far to go. Rails, legs, lock-down bar, doors, hinges, plunger plate, wireform ramps, ball guides, but what else? Bolts, screws, all brackets? Where to draw the line?

I went with a green powder coat rather than gold playing on this one. The volcano lighting mod done here by phoebe is awesome and really made the volcano come to life. Add a shaker, I wrote a tutorial. Sub is great in this game. Replace the lower pf window with a new one.

Congo looks great with LED's because the playfield is dark. I did full LED's on mine, replacing the lower playfield lights with orange frosted ones looks awesome (I think you need 10).

Black fur all over the cabinet sides.

LTG : )

ColorDMD, set to GREEN is AWESOME!

I also think green frosted in the lower GI is the way to go.

I know you are joking LTG, but I would love to see a furred out cab in Congo! It would be the perfect mod for someone that has a kit but no cab art...

I added all colored Super LEDs to my heavily routed Congo a few years ago. Here's a halfassed video of it:

I can take another video or photos if there is specific things you're interested it. It looks beat when the game is off, but it's a knock-out with power on. Everyone goes crazy for it.

The Treasure Cove inlane decals are a must-have mod in my opinion.

pinballtoppers.com has a killer topper coming soon. He's got a video up and is a great seller to deal with. He's also a pinsider!

Ohh yeah, forgot about that one. That shooter rod was cool. You should get that. The guy was in Canada. Machine.slave

http://www.maaca.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3129

The volcano is very hard to photo because the LEDs fade causing a moving lava effect. The topper is custom from lasseriffic but I gave him permission to make more so you can order one if you want.

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Congo looks really nice with #44 white incandescent lamps, and as a plus you can actually see the playfield artwork.

Real, live, gorillas!

*washes eyes out with bleach

you always have an extension of the pf art to the sides:
http://www.pinballpt.com/prestashop/home/9-congo-custom-inside-art.html

Hey Markmon did you put the color changing diamond in yet that I sent you?

I like the orange pops in the photo... Might have to try that. I'm on a Mac too, video works fine. It's just YouTube... Java?

Ditto with Sampfire. #44 icd looks best topside GI

Laser gorilla (mid playfield) looks pretty cool with a blue LED in his belly. I might try using LEDS in a couple of other inserts, like the pair near the satellite. And, I've thought about adding a couple of #44 spotlights near the slings, to brighten up the playfield.

A mod I'd like to see is an actual laser that shoots randomly across the playfield during "Shoot the Satellite"!

Powder coat the legs and rails green and definitely a green DMD.

Damn you!

I was gonna say that!

So how about a cannon that launches ape poop at the player?

LOL!!! LTG!! That was actually the first Congo I ever played, back in 2006 at Expo in Chicago. I had never seen one before, and I thought the black fur was kind of cool!! Didn't have to worry about any burrs on the side rails or lock bar it was nice and fuzzy!! Wonder what ever happened to the furred Congo?

Phoebe