(Topic ID: 120869)

My Raven translite & pop bumper clock

By Topher5000

9 years ago



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  • Latest reply 9 years ago by Gov
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#1 9 years ago

My translite was faded & yellowed, so, using paint.net, I put together a new one with images I found on the net. I traced the word 'Raven' in AutoCAD (I don't know or have any photo software).
At my old job I would have plotted it on a piece of frosted mylar (one side has a rough texture to diffuse light), but at this job the plotter's not ours & there's no mylar, so I plotted it on bond paper using an OCE inkjet plotter. I knew it would be light, so I plotted 2 copies & glued them together using LePages spray adhesive. It's dark, especially 'Raven', but I think it would look good on mylar. I'm going to look around for a print service that prints colour on mylar. It's appears to be harder than I thought it would be.
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I was browsing the web & saw the pop bumper clocks at Pinball Life so I drew up a Raven bumper cap in AutoCAD & printed it on an 11x17" paper using a laser printer. My friend didn't like the little table clock I had in my bsaement so he had given me a cheap wall clock. I took it apart & replaced the face of it with the print. I think it looks pretty cool. It would look better on a flat piece of wood without the plastic surround though.
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#2 9 years ago

Ok that's just awesome!

#3 9 years ago

Thanks!
I'm bored at work so here are a couple I did if I want to retheme it to Predator:
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Would be a pretty cool retheme. Use one of those MP3 boards so when you launch the ball you hear the predator sound, when you hit the spinner & the helicopter starts Arnold says "Get to the choppa!" & when the ball drains you hear the sound of the predator when it's ripping out a spine/skull.
Of course, I'd have to do a waaay better job of piecing things together.

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#4 9 years ago

That translite looks awesome! And I like the idea for the retheme! Stop giving me ideas.... Need... More... Time....

#5 9 years ago

That is a very nice alt translite. Well done.

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