Just a suggestion, but you can buy darker blue t-molding. If that was my machine I'd swap that in instead of the light blue to better match that nice powder coat.

http://www.t-molding.com/store/product.php?productid=21&cat=3&page=1

Not sure if your machine is ¾" you'll want to verify that before ordering if you do it.

Much better.

I think if I bought a Pro or a Premium I'd have to make myself a new translite featuring the Enterprise instead of actors' heads, and I'd swap out the t-molding for black.

That looks sweet, nice work.

Yup. I don't even have a Star Trek yet but I ordered a couple just in case. Got that same weird time estimate. Figured I didn't really care, so I just let it ride. It might be BS.

I think if you care there's an Amazon Prime option for a couple bucks more each. I wasn't in any kind of rush so I just let it go, those estimates are often way off.

Yeah my badges shipped too, that estimate was garbage. The good news is I just put in an order on a Premium to stick them on.

So I won't have a Pro, but I am planning on giving mine my alt translite treatment, and I'll make sure the colors on it work with both the Pro and Premium if anyone is interested.

Nice. I think I'll probably have the same problem with the premium, t molding not matching powerdcoat, if it bugs me I'll swap it for black.

¾" t-molding, any sharp object will cut just fine, and chrome t-molding is tacky.

Too late, someone already PM'd me earlier today to be first on the list for my as of yet non-existent product!

Honestly I got the bug after playing Rarehero's LE, and then I played a couple casual local tournments on it, and it's just a great, fun to shoot pin. I hope the Karl Urban pack is great, and I wouldn't be mad at rule improvements at all, but as it is I couldn't resist.

I know this is a Pro thread, so I'll keep the Premium specific stuff out of it. Obviously any translite I do will work fine on either Pro/Prem. I'll keep both the stock red and blue t-molding in mind.

Oh lol. I'll probably keep it so I can return it to stock if needed.

Gonna wait until I see it, I've never seen a Premium in person. But if it bugs me I'd most likely swap it for black, not try and paint it.

I just got my Premium yesterday, and now that I see how the speaker panel works I'm thinking I might make a new decal for it to match my translite (Pro and Premium are the same in that regard). No promises, have to experiment some, but I think it would work well. That was the secret to my Shadow translite, redoing the speaker panel to match.

I will attempt to make it so awesome that you cannot resist!

Physics says that's probably not gonna happen. Some kind of PETG panel with a sticky back and interesting cut shapes for the speaker panels maybe, but you cover them and you're gonna affect the sound.

If you look the other problem is the speakers already have their own cut out, so a decal would have to deal with the lip and depression created by that.

I dunno, I only just got the game, I haven't measured anything or mocked up ideas or really given it much thought beyond "hey, let's do that part too".

Yeah, that might be possible. I think with the speaker light and badge mods that it's probably best to leave them free and clear though.

Nice, that confirms my suspicion that if done right a translite can work equally well on either machine, looks fine on a Pro.

Good call.

Haha, noooooope, this one is staying for a while.

Hard to say, it's one of those will be ready when it's ready things. I don't normally announce stuff ahead of time, I just show it when it's good to go, but I got kinda excited about buying a Star Trek I guess.

I definitely need some time to work on it, and possibly do test prints before I'm ready to announce it, but I do want to get it done. How that Helen has shipped I'm gonna shift gears back to it, start working on the preliminary work.

lol. The plan is to do something more like the LE, hero shot of the new Enterprise with a colorful space scene that's not boring to light up (so not all black). Beyond that I just have to see how things go.

Point taken, I'll keep that in mind.

I could have saved you from staring at the wrong ship!

Seriously, who knows when I'll finish or if you'll even like it, so just enjoy for the time being.

Oh yeah, for sure, that's a big part of making it successful. With the Shadow I took a picture of the backbox with the translite off and scaled it in Photoshop so I'd have a map of all the lights when I was designing. It can be challenging, sometimes they're in random spots and you have to compromise between fitting them exactly and making the design work.

The Stern games obviously are different, the light tube is a lot more "dumb" in that respect. What's cool is that people are doing custom light kits for Helen, and Gio at the Refinery already told me he wants to do one for Star Trek when I get a design. So I don't have to work backwards so much for that.

If I was do to say BSD or Congo, hit another of the bad movie great game trilogy, I'd totally do the same thing though, map the lights out ahead of time.