In Progress High Speed II The Getaway - The journey continues

[Ashbo]

I'm sure this won't be that interesting, but just keeping a track of what I'm doing on this machine.

A bit of fettling after the solid work done here: https://www.pinballinfo.com/community/threads/getaway-hs2-roger-504-apprehend-him.56163/

Some minor cosmetic work and a bit of modding planned. Maybe a re-decal if I get clearance....

A few new ones for me being a newer breed, never cleaned a translite, much easier than the Krylon tasks needed on earlier machines.



And 3D printing day and night is making me very popular at home....not

I'll link the files I'm using later on when I get organised, but going 3D mountain, new traffic light and donut heaven. If it looks rubbish, I will revert to stock.

 

[Ashbo]

Mountain....

Williams Getaway Pinball - Mountain by Cobra64

Mountain mod for the Williams Getaway High Speed II Pinball machine Complete with tunnel & protective ramp cover Fits with the factory traffic light or the Traffic Light mod by OlloG (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3339547) The back right-hand corner of the supercharger loop needs a...

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Donut Heaven....

Printables

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Traffic Light....

Printables

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[Ashbo]

It won't replace new decals, but a tiny tiny paint brush and some gloss black acrylic and going very very slowly....

You can go from this....

To this...

 

[Ashbo]

New supercharger cover and u-turn plastic fitted today. They came with the machine so why not



Also started the primer coat on the mountain


Looking forward to getting some colour on tomorrow. Man, the small airbrush is so much nicer to use than rattle cans. More refined, easier to use.

 

[Ashbo]

A bit of Sunday morning painting....

 

[s000m]

Nice here's mine.

 

[Ashbo]

Nice here's mine.

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Woah!!!! Incredible loving the trees. Very lifelike. Glad I didn't look yours up before I started,I may well have given up as unachievable. I used the plastics as my pallet, but that's gorgeous.

 

[Ashbo]

Have to say I'm very underwhelmed with my first attempt at the traffic light. Seems paint and clear make any imperfections stand out. I'll keep this attempt up but already started printing again, tweaking to try and get a better surface.

 

[s000m]

Woah!!!! Incredible loving the trees. Very lifelike. Glad I didn't look yours up before I started,I may well have given up as unachievable. I used the plastics as my pallet, but that's gorgeous.

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I take no credit I just make the wife do it. My artistic skills suck.

 

[s000m]

Have to say I'm very underwhelmed with my first attempt at the traffic light. Seems paint and clear make any imperfections stand out. I'll keep this attempt up but already started printing again, tweaking to try and get a better surface.

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You tried a putty paint? It's great at covering imperfections.

 

[Ashbo]

You tried a putty paint? It's great at covering imperfections.

No, googling now

 

[Ashbo]

Another traffic light print starting today, this time I've ordered some metallic yellow airbrush paint and plan to use primer as before then a tiny pallet knife and thicker acrilic (like putty paint) to level before a final coat of yellow.

I'll also build a small paint booth. It's amazing the amount of overspray the poor traffic light got from the mountain.

 

[Ashbo]

Quick update. Inserts leveled

 

[Ashbo]

Slightly longer update, I reprinted the front of the traffic light and then used a pallet knife to apply acrylic. After it became tacky, rubbed it of with kitchen towel. Much less of a problem with print lines.




Then set about hand painting the donut heaven mod. Not entirely happy but it's ok...



I've pinched the led strip from the Mezel Mod that came with it and jumped it off the lock ball insert led. Donut now flashes when ball lock is lit.

Also lined it with theatre gels, red for windows, double thickness cyan over the LEDs.


After two coats of primer on the traffic light and 24 hrs between, I finally got to try out the metallic yellow.


Hopefully it will dry well.

 

[Fubar]

Great work mate, I'm so glad she went to such a good home

 

[Ashbo]

Great work mate, I'm so glad she went to such a good home

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to look after her

 

[Ashbo]

Only first coat but really happy with the metallic yellow

 

[Ashbo]

Did some clear coat...quite like it shiney.


Then remove the inserts and old light circuits and add to new.

 

[Ashbo]

As updates go this one is really boring but may help someone somewhere....

Hot glue gun glue didn't cut it on the traffic light, shook apart slightly today. Gone with some super glue this evening, will see how that works.

 

[Ashbo]

Grr gah arrrrgh!!!!! Why won't you just glue and stay stuck.

Hats of to mod makers everywhere, it's not as easy as it looks

 

[Ashbo]

New Pin2DMD installed in 5 mins flat. Great quality product and excellent service from @Terranigma from retrocity.com.au.

What an improvement on the original plasma panel!

Love it

 

[Ashbo]

What to do on a cold weekend in January? Why not remove the mylar on this little lady.

There is something so satisfying about peeling mylar off. Could do it every weekend


It's not 100% mint under there, a couple of inserts with a bit of peel, but with a lot of work with microfiber cloths and Goo Gone, it starts to clean up well.





For a birthday treat for myself, ordered some new screws, star posts and pop skirts and caps.

Having injured my back November 2022 and pretty much hibernated all winter so far(on medical advice), it was really great to spend some time at a pinball doing some work.

I have really missed the smells, the sore scratched fingers and the head banged under the playfield. Had to call it a day and not finished removing glue residue yet, but good to be back. Let's hope I can move tomorrow.

 

[Ashbo]

Several hours last night and a quick fix this evening and that's the gummy residue gone.

In better light will close up areas I need to touch up, but all in unseen sections that will be covered up.

There is some small damage near the left stand-ups so will likely put a small bit of mylar down to protect from further issues.

Some of the upper playfield inserts needed leveling so got that done too.

Delivery from @David retro arrived today, very swift delivery and very well packed, thanks very much.

Next, pops off and new skirts in...but that's another evening.....

 

[David retro]

@Ashbo many thanks for your order and support great news it arrived quickly

If you need any game specific parts please let us know

 

[Ashbo]

The photos of the playfield areas for attention / protection as promised....










Spotted a few bits of gum remaining in these pics....noted.

 

[Ashbo]

I know I said I loved removing mylar, but just how satisfying is it waxing a playfield.... brilliant therapy at the end of the day.


Talked myself out of getting the paint out, just some small patches of mylar to protect....after many coats of wax first to help removal in the future.

 

[Ashbo]

Massive thanks to my dad for making me a new ramp flap. Had a game for the first time in weeks, either I'm really slow or this girl has gone up a notch speed wise....

Need to adjust the pops as they are a bit too eager to trigger and the ball lock switch 2 is snagging on the balls so needs a fettle. Other than that I'm well chuffed.

Discovered I was missing the u turn metal. They are unobtainable so made a replacement.

 

[Jay Walker]

If it's an early example, it may never have had one. Works' first Getaway had a ball hop into the cabinet a couple of times, before Deith Leisure supplied the metal deflector. That one was shipped with software edition P-C, which gave an on/off report (it could appear repeatedly during a game) saying "Diverter Error" - the reporting part still thought every shot up the fixed ramp was meant to go around the Supercharger, even if only once.

 

[Ashbo]

As the coin door isn't going to stay the distance, thought I'd sand it back, but my random orbital sander broke so just chucked it back in for now.

I think it called a distressed look. Only one in the world like this

 

[Ashbo]

So from this thread here,thanks to Jay, I know this wasn't right.

Factory or hack??

Never noticed this on my HS2 untill last night? Happy to chuck some headers and connectors on but took me by suprise. Pinwiki shows original board as headerless bottom left so is soldering coin door connections direct to the board a practice that happened in the early 90s?

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Coin mech removed for now .....