was waiting for your input, will check that out

edit - purchased volume 2 - great value 123 songs for $10, thanks

a huge thanks to berzerk for sending me some music, really appreciate the help and support everyone

Hey @SeaLawyer, thanks for the kind comments and yes looking forward to getting on to DoH as well, have learnt a few things and got a few other ideas as well.

To answer your question, yes I designed all the parts replicating from original parts, and I am aware there is a repository (pinballmaker). My issue with the repository is that the site has a number of my early drawings up there that he found off the net from years ago and copy and pasted in there (which I don't have a issue with) but since then I have discovered a few issues with the first 4-5 cabinet drawings shown there so I reached out and asked to pull them to protect people building stuff with mistakes but he didn't listen so my advice to others is proceed with caution and double check critical dimensions. I will share some of my designs only once I have made a cabinet, cut a playfield etc to proof test my designs first.

thanks @bflagg, there is so many takes on that particular song, didn't mind that one.

thanks @toyotaboy, hadn't seen that one, and cool design, my issue is available floor space so vertical is better but alot of thought went into that one, love it

awesome, make sure to post a link when you get to that stage of your design, I love reading other people's homebrew projects.

I have a old version of solidworks so I can only determine the centre of gravity (as you can assign materials to the parts) and can test out load test with like a heat image of stress on a part, but can't check flow physics. Solidworks is great in the way that once you design the parts you can can then do a assembly drawing to check fit and see if parts foul with each other. In addition depending on the mates (settings between 2 parts like centre, parrallel, face to a end etc) you assign parts you can do a movement test. So for me when I want to determine flow it is a bit of gut feel and then take it back a bit on the conservative side and cut and try out - until now my design is all theory but getting close to finishing the cnc. Though someone took one of my earlier designs and tested in VP and said it played well but he never returned with a video, sadly as was curious to see.

I am in Lake Macquarie, about 90 minutes north of Sydney, haven't been to Alice.

great idea and will try to find a thread that alot of people chimed in on which has gone quiet now but some great info in it

edit - found it

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/maybe-its-time-to-build-a-simpler-pin

kids always blow me away all the time especially my own by what they say, do or achieve and today my 8 1/2 year daughter went to her first ever art class as she loves drawing and did her first ever canvas (acrylic paints) and I was blown away firstly as to me this painting looked professional and secondly it was awesome inspiration for Tube Time as I intend to have bright colours throughout the game with the classic 90's style insert borders and black outlines around items. I think a rendition of this image will have to be "part" of the backglass / translite.

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thanks guys, I loved swillie 's idea too and did the same as well for my phone.

a Feb update, have had a rest on this project for a little while and almost finished the cnc and side tracked with birthdays etc and now back into this one

I am still not 100% won with a few shots and contemplating a little bit of modification to the design so will work on that and release when done and by then hope the cnc is completed and then start cutting a proto whitewood Mar / Apr, till then have a good one.

a small update for those interested and will post a new playfield image later as still a work in progress but one of the things I was not happy with was the only one ramp to the wave ramp and was a little concerned if the ball would make it down one or the other exit points.
- big change was scrapped the wave ramp and now replacing with a upper wave playfield that the same left ramp feeds onto but also now with a right ramp feed in the back right corner. The plan is to put a mechanical moving wave so when the ball shoots up there it either makes it giving you a clear run to the ramp or if it hits the wave it will push out and hit some pins that you will then need to nudge to encourage the ball down the ramp or drop near the upper rhs flipper for another shot
- collecting the huey bonus on the mid lower left side was a "little how are you going in design" so made a few small changes and looks like I can fit a ramp there to that but will have a catch as don't want to make collecting a bonus too easy
- also added a pop bumper and keeping the horizontal rock / shark fin spinner

basic partial reworked playfield route sketch coming tonight

also Newcastle (local city) is having an international pro surfing event this week / weekend and has had a Sup and Aus comps and skate comps the last 2 weeks so has been stimulating and then the local newspaper released this image which was the front cover last weekend done by a local artist that does murals around the Newcastle area. It tells a bit of a story of the local break at Merewether Beach.

What do you reckon of the art ?????

As am thinking of a cartoon style art but not as busy and very vibrant.

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that is cool oldskool1969

here is the partially reworked design

* below the upper left flipper will be a short loop around to the bonus collect ball catch
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* closer look on the top half - added a pop and moved the spinner, the spinner will interact with the mechanical wave speed / curl, at the moment only left to right orbit, but right will lead to a range to the upper WAVE playfield
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* the green lines is the current concept for a upper WAVE playfield that will have sweeping SS ball guides, still to add some pin posts and mechanical wave on the right hand side that could / will interact with the ball and could affect a fast feed to the wireform or affected and cause a wipeout to drain to upper right fliper
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refined the design to a point that I am happy with the upper wave playfield (blue lines) and will now work on the huey collect bonus ramp and then prep for cnc cutting soon (with no inserts)

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thanks guys

parts for the cnc turned up 2 days ago so hope to find time this weekend to finish the wiring and possibly get some settings sorted

in the spirit of the beach I just supported a kickstarter playing card project with a tiki theme
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strangewise/tikilandia-playing-cards?ref=user_menu

May update:

cnc is operational now, debugged and just writing a manual for the hybrid machine so if anyone else wants to go down this road

I keep volunteering to help people with repro parts (Dr Who mushroom targets, 80's stern bally drops) which delays this project - gotta learn to just focus on this for a while. The game has a upper playfield now as was a little concerned the ramp would not totally work and now has 2 feed-ins from upper right flipper or lower left flipper. Now has a pop pumper in the impact zone, the upper horizontal spinner determines pop-up obstacles in the upper playfield which alter the wave shape and flow - causing a wipeout or wireform (tube ride) The spinner is determines how many seconds in the tube for a bonus. Riding the wire form opens up the huey bonus collect (via the lower left ramp still to be put in) if you haven't opened bonus collect the ramp just feeds the ball fast to the lower left flipper. This is the one (version 23) I am happy with and to cut apart from tweaks and lets see if it plays ok, shit or good.

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Slightly Tube Time game related - I saw 2 guy a few weeks ago locally in the Channel on manual type foil surfboard out in the surf and these blew me away and then came across the e-foils while checking out on youtube.

here is the manual type

These efoil things look so cool and not as physically tiring and I have become slightly obsessed in watching them and kit builds etc. contemplating this since I have a lake and ocean with 5 minutes away - but gotta finish this game first lol......

Any pinsiders into these.... efoils?

just for me to keep a link somewhere

this guy does a awesome project build on youtube - up to 13 parts - yes watched all of them when I should of been designing Tube Time

thanks guys,

Junior Brown is cool though made me laugh - guy playing cool surf music wearing a cowboy hat.

Also didn't think about the HooDoo's - saw them in concert back in the 90's which was cool

I know what you mean but look at it the other way is I can get a working game going faster with the upper playfield, so the upper playfield is my proto-type and the wave ramp can be the LE version of it as I still want to do it....

The upper playfield is still to gain a wave form mold which I can 3d print onto it, so it will grow to capture the theme and feel more more - don't give up and be sad .

it has been a while and not alot of progress on this project but finished a heap of small ones that were slowing me up

A Favour Call Out - anyone have parts (top plate) or a full assembly of a 80's Bally inline drop target assembly similar to this, preferrably a 3 target version

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thanks @pinteresting, much appreciated that offer

sorry for the silence - life and study getting in the way, but came across this today and getting me refocused and study will be over by end of Jan and last ever Snackbar Mods completed by around end of Feb and then getting back to this.

Just picked a set of in-line drops to add to the game so will be changing the design a bit

latest artifical wave maker, an aussie one too