Finally finished my first full custom machine..

[Tulsa]

Yeah, do an Eagles machine. Oh and don't forget the choke collar!

[dattia]

OUCH!

[Davis]

Thanks guys, its been sitting here for about a month with no reels. I couldnt find any type of material that woudl keep them on. THey just kept coming un stuck. So, I finally tried using backlit film and its worked really good. The reels came out great, adn with the backlight that changes for green to blue to red they relaly do look nice when sitting there in demo mode.

[Davis]

Yeah im gonna do an eagles one and TO will be one of the reel symbols. Im looking right now for a picture of little baby whining and crying his eyes out. lol

[riversidedawg]

That is awsome nice job.
I would love too do somthing like this but I wouldn't know where to start any tips?

[Davis]

Well if you look around this forum here close enough you should find some good ones, but here are a few.

Firs toff find a good sturdy machine, one problem I had was when I took off the reels there is a sort of reel base that the reel strips adhere too. Try and find a machine that has a reel cage that is one piece. On this one the reel strips adhered to the rigth side first since that part of the reel cage is permanent and doesnt move. The left side is just free floating rings, and they basically stay in place becasue the strips keep them in place when adhered to them. I know it sounds confusing, but if you can find a cage that doesnt have free flaoting parts ont eh elft then its much easier to work with. I learned alot of how to do this from dapperdan on here, hes a master at grapchic arts. I suggest you find a copy of Adobe illustrator, check emule or edonkey, you can get one there. The hardest part of all is getting the symbols on the reels to be the right size. I found templates of the orginal reels at pachinkomuseum and then blew them up in size to what I needed. I then turned the transperency on and laid my new created graphics right on top of them so they would be in perfect spacing order. Its very time consuming, but feels good when you finally finish it!

[Si7]

Very impressive, that's a real credit to you