Just picked up my TFTC from Allentown on Saturday so I'm officially a member now! No, it wasn't the nasty one in the free play area. This was a deal that I had made in advance so it went straight from the seller's truck to mine. Spent today stripping the playfield for a good cleaning and waxing. There's a few broken/repaired plastics that you don't really notice unless you go into the machine but I think I might order a repro plastic set anyway. The wire ramps are going out to my powdercoater this week. Love all the mods that people are doing here! I was undecided between TFTC and JP but thought TFTC was much more mod-friendly. I'll post pics as things come together.

I'm going to try to match the bright green in the playfield. The purple LEDs I put in the GI really make that color pop on the playfield and I'm going for a similar effect on the ramps.

I am the new owner of this particular TFTC! Thanks Dave! I'm hoping to pick up the ramps from the powdercoater tonight or tomorrow and start reassembly on Saturday. Doing a flipper rebuild while things are apart as well. Sometime in the next couple weeks I should have all of the parts to do a color LCD conversion on it. Of course, you guys have given me plenty of ideas for future mods as well! Having lots of fun with this one and havent even played it yet!

Installed my ramps over the weekend. Will get some better pics as things progress. Just received the LCD panel for the display conversion but still waiting on the controller board from China. Another week or two on that.

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Haven't had the opportunity to find out but I'm looking into some lighting options. Open to suggestions as well. I was really pleased with the way the ramps turned out. The powdercoater got the color match with the pf pretty much dead on!

I converted my DMD display to a color LCD using Dr Pinball's DMD Extender.

The green is a bright green to match the Powdercoating on the ramps as well as the PF artwork. It looks washed out in the video. The LEDs at havoc with the iPad exposure meter. I'll get in-game video when I have someone to do video while I play.

TFTC is the third pin I've used the DMD extender on. WCS94 was the easiest (took about an hour) because the kit was specifically made to replace the DMD. The TFTC was slightly more difficult because the kit was made to supplement the DMD with an external LCD display. I wanted to replace the DMD so I had to use a different souce for +12v to power the LCD. My Gottlieb Wipe Out was similar in that they didn't have a Gottlieb kit so I was their guinea pig so to speak. The connector that they gave me to test was not sufficient so I had to find +12v power elsewhere. Overall, it's still a fairly easy process. At most a couple hours work for, IMHO, great results. Total cost is about $250.00 sourcing the parts yourself. They did just announce a complete kit that's plug-and-play for about $300.00 + shipping from the UK.

Nice! I was going to go with glow balls too but wasn't sure how they would affect gameplay since they are lighter than the standard ball. Do you notice a difference? Is it a good or bad difference?

I have got to get me one of these!

I was asked to post some recent pics of my TFTC:
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Thanks! Looks better in person. It's hard to get decent pics with just the LED lighting but it's actually quite well illuminated. The pics were taken in complete darkness other than the pin itself. The only dark spot is right in front of the flippers which I plan to alleviate with a UV LED strip in the trough entrance.

You didn't. I converted the DMD to a color LCD using the DMD Extender board from Dr Pinball. You can't individually colorize each frame like the ColorDMD guys do so the end result is not quite as good. Unfortunately, the ColorDMD guys will probably not get around to the pins in my collection during my lifetime so this is a good substitute. I did the same with my Wipeout and WCS94 as well.

Total costs for parts are $240.00-$260.00 shipped. They do not provide a complete kit so you have to source some parts yourself. I got most of my parts off of eBay. How many colors depends on what machine you are using it in. In TFTC there's 4 colors. If you want a black background that counts as a color so you have 3 colors + the black background. You can choose whatever colors you want and it's fairly easy to change colors until you get a combo that you like. Complete instructions and parts list can be downloaded from the Dr Pinball website.

Nice! I did the green powdercoating and color LCD on mine too! Did you use the DMD extender from Dr Pinball?