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Here's a small part of my collection, most of them are waiting for restoration, i have 18 early 80's pins in total i would like to restore in the next few years 
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Xenon restored with an nos playfield
Fathom restored with the original playfield, nos backglass
Centaur restored with the original playfield rescreened by cpr
Catacomb restored and i customize the plain white targets with skulls decals
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Quoted from HPR:Here's a small part of my collection, most of them are waiting for restoration, i have 18 early 80's pins in total i would like to restore in the next few years
I love your collection, so jealous. I have a couple Sterns, I will post a few pics shortly.
4 months later
Larodde
Rstrunks, that black cabinet head looks really good with the Mata Hari artwork. Any other differences with your cab art?
Quoted from rstrunks:Here are mine. Gotta love the Ballys.
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Did you get rid of your Wizard!?
No Eight Ball love yet, huh?
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Do the Bally EM's count....? : D
Camelot is pretty fun... but I'm not sure how Harvest will be after I strip it and wax it... I may need to add rectifiers to the slingshots and pop bumpers to get the action going on that one.
EDIT: Haven't shopped out Space Invaders yet... other than to replace the MPU and make the eyes a bit more, um, piercing.
Quoted from zombywoof:Rstrunks, that black cabinet head looks really good with the Mata Hari artwork. Any other differences with your cab art?
Thanks. it came that way when I bought it. I like it too and I think I'll leave it that way.
Quoted from Mk1Mod0:My small contribution and things to come...
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looks familiar 
pinballs.jpgQuoted from beepnutz:Does this count as classic Stern?
Yes it does. Nice looking Lectronamo.
Quoted from Wahnsinniger:Do the Bally EM's count....? : D
Camelot is pretty fun
My first pin was the two player version; Galahad.
Quoted from MrBally:My first pin was the two player version; Galahad.
Nice, there were a couple Galahads at Gene Cunningham's house... but my wife liked the look of Camelot better. I'd probably have gotten the Galahad.
I need to get my Stern Dragonfist, Stern Gamatron, Bally Paragon & Bally Skateball lined up for a family photo!
Keep the pictures coming! This thread is full of awesome!
Marcus
Quoted from Gov:I picked it up for free over a year ago
That's a helluva deal! I paid $350 for a beat one, but thanks to Classic_Stern I too have a low wear playfield in my queue for restoration. Post your restoration so we can follow along, Gov.
Speaking of Classic_Stern...where are you man? Let's see classic Stern row and Bally alley.
Quoted from dothedoo:Post your restoration so we can follow along, Gov.
Oh I will I picked up a BGresto backglass for it a few weeks back. It isn't perfect, but better than my faded one that is beginning to flake. Also, have a CPR plastics set and will be getting stencils soon. The inserts are cupped pretty bad and the "P" on paragon is cracked. I am going to have to track down 7 new circle inserts to replace them as if I just do the "P" the colors won't match. Then I will do some minor touchups and get to clear coating the playfied
I hope to have it ready for TPF in March.
Awesome! Can't wait to play it. I'm interested to see how your stencil turns out. Not sure I'm gonna redo mine. The red isn't too badly faded, but I can't remember if the cabinet has a lot of damage. As for TPF, I'm debating whether to bring Quicksilver again or something else. Haven't decided what to work on this winter.
Thanks for sharing the pics. Enjoy seeing some classics. Got me to dig thru my pics from last 8 yrs. Only one I still have is FrontierIMG_4434.JPGIMG_0897.jpgIMG_0495.jpgIMG_0650.jpgIMG_1175.JPGIMG_1215.JPGIMG_1117.jpgIMG_1101.JPGIMG_3977.JPGIMG_3941.JPGIMG_3938.jpgIMG_3937.JPGIMG_3935.jpgIMG_3934.JPGIMG_0774.JPG6.09-8.09 313.jpg
Shepparton
Quoted from TurboBengal:looks familiar
Ha! Nice collection! Simple as it is, The Black Pyramid is just plain fun to play. Never heard of it 'til I got this one, but then I have yet to ever see a 'Fathom' either.
Quoted from dothedoo:Awesome! Can't wait to play it. I'm interested to see how your stencil turns out. Not sure I'm gonna redo mine. The red isn't too badly faded, but I can't remember if the cabinet has a lot of damage. As for TPF, I'm debating whether to bring Quicksilver again or something else. Haven't decided what to work on this winter.
I hope you do bring QS. I had a blast playing it last year. Loved the sub
Quoted from pinkid:Is that Bow and Arrow SS is a prototype?????????
On IPDB. Interesting:
"We had previously indicated a quantity of 22 electro-mechanical games were modified as a test of Solid State design. Ian MacDonald, the son of Bally engineer Doug MacDonald who was involved in these conversions, told us his father remembered building 17 units, although he thought it possible that other people there could have built or converted additional machines using spare parts. The boards for the machine were designed by Doug. His initials, the letters d and b, are etched into them in a back to back fashion similar to "db", and may be hard to see."
Quoted from pinkid:Is that Bow and Arrow SS is a prototype?????????
Yes, its in pretty good shape. I also have a bunch of spare parts from another one that was trashed and had to be torn apart. All the boards are in the bottom of the cabinet, which they learned pretty quickly was a bad idea so I has a flexible mylar sheet that sits over everything so dust/funk does fall directly onto the boards. It is a fun game, love the chimes and a lot of the smaller kids like it because its pretty slow in comparison to JP.
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