So I installed my mods for LOV today and here are my thoughts:
I have never bought flipper toppers before. The stock white flippers from AP are not a good visual fit in my opinion. Adding the sword flipper toppers is a very nice touch.
The floating skull is very cool. I put it in the location identified by the mod couple.
The skull pile with Thor’s hammer is also a nice touch. I moved it around to several spots in the game before finally deciding. I did not want to cover up any art so I put it on the clear plastic above the boat ramp behind the floating skull. I bent the wire to Lower the skull a bit and I am satisfied how it came out.
Odin’s arch is also cool but it is only attached by two way tape on the bottom of the arch. Not a lot of surface area to keep it in place. Will see how it holds up. One thing. The arc sits on two piece of play field plastics. Left and right side of Odin’s ramp. The two plastics are not level to each other so when you apply it the left side is lower than the right. The top of the arch slopes down to the left. Before you apply the arch, you way want to put a couple of washers underneath the plastic on the left to level it out. Recommend you do not apply the two way tape until you check it out.
Ah the boat house!!!! Spent the most time on it but it came out really well.
First piece of advice: DO NOT APPLY THE TWO WAY TAPE TO HOLD THE BOAT HOUSE IN PLACE UNTIL YOU KNOW IF YOUR DONE WITH ALL THE WIRING!!!!!!!
I was lucky not to secure the boat house until I was done and it payed off. It will be a pain as once attached, have to pull both playfield plastics to move the boat house.
Put everything in place and did not like the spot light in front of the boat house like in the pics above. So I moved it to behind the boat house on the opposite side. There is plenty of excess wire to do this.
This did three things.
1) hide the spot so the player can not see it. Does not interfere with ball travel on the ramp. I did boost it up about 1/4 inch with spacers to make sure.
2) you can see the spinner shot a lot better!
3) removed the piece of plastic with the warrior in front of the boat house ramp all together. You can see the left most orbit MUCH better. Cool art and I believe it helps making the shot, as you can see the path.
Seeing the spinner shot and left orbit improve the game dramatically IMHO.
Lastly, the red LEDs in the boat house were in the inside back wall. Did not like the reflection off the stainless ramp, so I relocated to the front wall in the inside. The LEDs now shine up the ramp and away from the player. Much better IMHO.
Overall nice touches and I really like how the two shots on the side of the boat house ramp have visually opened up
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