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We are building a minions pinball! updates every friday!

By pinballrockstar

8 years ago


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#601 8 years ago

It does look cool Hope it'll play well as well.
Great job.

#602 8 years ago
Quoted from sven:

It does look cool Hope it'll play well as well.
Great job.

We hope so too, it shoots powerful,but the ball has friction from the wooden playfield, since there is no artwork layer on the playfield yet.
So there really is no telling how it will perform eventually.
It is basically about tweaking in the coil settings to get the feel right.
At the moment we are focusing on the exterior a bit, just to have a breath.
Exterior is way more fun to do.
For now we have a basic functioning game and that is awesome!

#603 8 years ago

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#604 8 years ago

So this is the example for our backbox, we want to have the "despicable me minion mayhem" neon on our backbox house.
We had this insane idea to saw some wooden letters and vacuum form the neon sign, so it will look like a quality piece.
Add some stainless and lights behind it,it will be hard to do, but hey, let's try...

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#605 8 years ago

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but a minions pinball has already been released....

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#606 8 years ago

So this is our vacuum form stuff, a strong numatic vacuum cleaner, a gas heater which gets crazy hot, and ofcourse our vacuum form rig.

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#607 8 years ago

Mic did a solid job sawing out the letters, he first plotted the decals and stuck it on the wood so it was easy to saw.

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#608 8 years ago

Then we hammered a sheet of plastic to a frame for the first try

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#609 8 years ago

Our first attempt to vacuum form the letters for the neon.
Very exciting since we know nothing about the amount of suck or how soft the plastic should be, hilarious!

#610 8 years ago

Yes ! Succes!! Our first vacuum formed thing!

#611 8 years ago

Oh no! It was a failure disguised as succes...

#612 8 years ago

Argh! The Shitty letters won't come out!

#613 8 years ago

LOL, been there http://www.pinballcontrollers.com/forum/index.php?topic=1338.msg11945#msg11945

As you now see, you need to have a little bit of an angle to be able to remove the form. You may also need to add some holes to that lower plate to help the plastic pull down tight and close in the inner areas, especially if you move to a thicker plastic.

#614 8 years ago

Luckely some brute force got them out, not bad at all, too bad the brown decals melted and stuck on the plastic.
Now we have brown letters,fail!

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#615 8 years ago

also, you need to really sand it smooth, otherwise it will leave 'grain' impression in your plastic, also if it is real smooth easier to remove the form.

#616 8 years ago

Second attempt with thicker and more expensive material, bigger window, plus ducktape to seal the plastic to the frame

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#617 8 years ago

nice first attempt and good to know, thanks for sharing

#618 8 years ago

Waiting for the plastic to melt..

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#619 8 years ago

Failure number 2,the wooden letters need some sanding , this is harder than it looks

#620 8 years ago

could you not apply some vaseline / oil to the letters for a easy release not stick solution ?

#621 8 years ago
Quoted from swinks:

could you not apply some vaseline / oil to the letters for a easy release not stick solution ?

Don't worry, succes is on the horizon!

#622 8 years ago

Yes!! Suck-cess!!!!

#623 8 years ago

Pretty happy with this, next is the stainless housing!

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#624 8 years ago

Hard stuff to bend, stainless is crazy tough.

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#625 8 years ago

It will be beautiful on our backbox, but next week we have to plot the decals and make some lights in there,etc.
It is a lot of work this neon.

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#626 8 years ago
Quoted from swinks:

could you not apply some vaseline / oil to the letters for a easy release not stick solution ?

I had looked into that, but did not really find anyone having done that or recommending it. I had also thought about using talc, but given how it will capture any imperfection in the form, was concerned it would affect it.

#627 8 years ago
Quoted from rosh:

I had looked into that, but did not really find anyone having done that or recommending it. I had also thought about using talc, but given how it will capture any imperfection in the form, was concerned it would affect it.

would agree with the talc, I know in various industries they use release agents in steel work and concreting so figured maybe something like a smear of light colouress grease or maybe even a silicon spray

#628 8 years ago
Quoted from pinballrockstar:

It will be beautiful on our backbox, but next week we have to plot the decals and make some lights in there,etc.
It is a lot of work this neon.

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looks great, very nice

#629 8 years ago
Quoted from swinks:

could you not apply some vaseline / oil to the letters for a easy release not stick solution ?

You would use a product called "mold release"
You can buy it in a spray can.

#630 8 years ago

Looks amazing
Great job

#631 8 years ago

Wow! Great work!

Are you using that propane heater inside? Don't die on us.

#632 8 years ago
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:

Wow! Great work!
Are you using that propane heater inside? Don't die on us.

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#633 8 years ago
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:

Wow! Great work!
Are you using that propane heater inside? Don't die on us.

i trust that propane heater,rock solid,and we have too much draft for carbon monoxide to form

#634 8 years ago
Quoted from rosh:

LOL, been there http://www.pinballcontrollers.com/forum/index.php?topic=1338.msg11945#msg11945
As you now see, you need to have a little bit of an angle to be able to remove the form. You may also need to add some holes to that lower plate to help the plastic pull down tight and close in the inner areas, especially if you move to a thicker plastic.

Hi josh,we indeed sanded the letters to have a slight angle,really helps.
We are using 2.5 mm plastic now, which is actually 0.5 mm thicker than a bally ramp.
We are real happy with the turnout,it is really a quality feel since it is real heavy plastic and not a sheet of thin crappy plastic.
So we will stick with this 2.5 mm stuff.
It also doesn't lose it's heath fast when you have thicker material.

#635 8 years ago

Finally friday! Let's finish the neon sign!
The decals are ready!

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#636 8 years ago

They fit!

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#637 8 years ago

Some black..

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#638 8 years ago

In the meantime,we weld on some nuts for the back lid

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#639 8 years ago

Starts to look like something

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#640 8 years ago

It illumates perfect with a smartphone!

#641 8 years ago

Wow, looks great!

#643 8 years ago

Now let's fuse the parts together

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#644 8 years ago

We use foamcore to house the lamp sockets

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#645 8 years ago

Dick is salvaging light sockets from our baywatch playfield..

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#646 8 years ago

Some soldering, so we only need two wires to light all the bulbs in the neon sign

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#647 8 years ago

everything is ready, first the case..

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#648 8 years ago

Then the foamcore light assembly..

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#649 8 years ago

Then the back cover..

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#650 8 years ago

Here we cut a hole in gru's house for the neon

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