are the terminals for the coils on both the drop banks supposed to be connected?
Left Drop coil
Left terminal - Br/W & yellow (22 awg) - Br/W goes out and the yellow goes to the right drop on the left terminal
Right terminal - Yellow & yellow (both 18 awg) - one yellow goes out the other goes to the right drop on the right terminal.

Right Drop Coil
Left terminal - Or/W & Yellow (22 awg) - Or/W goes out and the yellow goes to the left drop on the left terminal
Right terminal - Yellow & yellow (both 18 awg) - one yellow goes out and the other goes to the left drop on the right terminal

I can't find many pictures for the underside of the playfield, I did manage to find a youtube video and it looks like they aren't but it's really hard to tell.

Awesome, I appreciate it.... Yeah I thought it was a little weird to have those wires linked. Glad I asked.

has anyone ever used an airbrush to paint on the stencils?
or would it be a better idea just to get a big compressor and regular paint gun?

I would think rolling it on would be iffy, since it wouldn't go on thin enough.... maybe with the base coat.

Damn, nice.

Can't ever get enough speed on mine by just dropping the flipper. Always have to roll it back in the inlane a little bit and then bounce it. I even have the legs jacked all the way up for max pitch... So your doing better than me.