Thanks, Joe for the warm words of encouragement. Last year was a great annoyance to me, since I had little to no time to work on her. So greatful to be back at it again.
JoeSMG
With this build you’ve inspired me. Inspired me to never, ever, start the one I have in my stash! Mine would be such a pale shadow, it’d be practically invisible!
So thanks for that!
Please keep up the amazing job and posts, I look forward to seeing her done!
While my intention was NEVER to discourage anyone from attempting to build something, please don't be deterred. For me, and my overly obsessive type A personality (and a bit of a dig to my wife), I wanted this build to be as perfect as I could get. Got tired of the OOB builds when I got creative with my pinball interests. So when I finally got to it, I had several years of scratch building just about anything that fit into or on top of a pinball machine, including a few boats for my Pirates of the Caribbean, and a 3.5" Robby the Robot with 18 miniature LEDs inside.
If you love the topic, build it. Stick it in your bar, or your basement, or where ever you want. Your friends will be impressed. And you can enjoy it. And maybe, just maybe, your wife will look at your hobby and say "There are worse things he could be doing."
My wife is actually impressed at this version. She had the priveledge of seeing Connie 1.0, which I built in college and tried to display in our home when we got married. Sadly, it was banished to the garage, where an untimely accident closed that chapter. This version, however, will find a "prominent place for display." Her words. So that makes it worth the effort.
Keep building.
Bob