Kategorie: Pinball MODs

For MM I found only one custom Knightset with 4 knights.
I don’t like the faces covered with complete helmet, so I am in search for some other.

I found a King that looks similar to the king of the backglass. Next I will try the same in red…

Some weeks ago I saw a great dragon with two heads and my first thought it can work in MM…

Its time for ashes of the Dragon, now with two heads 😉

After some drilling and cutting I the hole is big enough to put it over the lamp of the original dragon.

Here a some pictures from the first work in progress state

After some finetuning with a dremel, the dragon fits perfectly including the lamp to the original place of the „old“ dragon

with flasher lamp on under the dragon

red flasher right down on

Today I got a replacement for the ringmaster. So its a good time to make the ringmaster look more realistic. So as I a great friend of LEDs I set up two 5mm blue leds behind the eyes.

I can take care of the modification for you in two ways.

a) You can sent me your ringmaster and I will add the two Leds for you
b) You can order a complete new ringmaster including this modifcation

Video:

Here you see some pictures how I done this mod.

First I removed some of the PCV holding the eye to get a closer look.

After some modifing a standard 5mm blue LED

Some shrinking tube to get the light only where it belongs

First testing with one led insite

both eyes light up

In the darkness

Now its time to remove the original ringmaster and have a deeper look to the Flasher.
I have to remove some part of the shrinking tube to solder the wires for the blue leds

I put some connector between, to make it easy to assemble/de assemble

I uses 330 Ohm for each blue 5mm LED and wired it this way

red wire from the Pinball is plus

blue wire is GND

After making the magic Merlin Mod, I have more ideas in my mind to realise with my beauty mm.

So here is the standard Archer Mod for it.

For the new archer is a new plastic needed cutted with a laser…

The plastic need a little modification for the arrowhead but no problem

Here you can see the blank plastic

left the original one, right the empty plastic

here you see both new archer on the plastics

left one zoomed

right one zoomed

I wasn’t happy with the Merlin standard Mod and I have some ideas in my mind.

So the deluxe Edition was born…

If you want some you can buy it at wolfsoft.de

Or look here for the attack from the merlins – a funny – link

Installation Manual

The deluxe  have to more features:

a) blue Color replaced by yellow. So it fitts better to the medieval Theme.

b) a flasher effect of the ball in red

Step a):

I done some modifications on the Merlin Mod.  As blue is not my favorite color, I decided to make yellow for the Merlins Magic Insert instead of blue.  This color fitts better to the MM theme.

Therefore I need more Leds. I found some SMD-RGB Leds and put them on the 5mm LED as you see in the following pictures.

So I have to add 8 wires to the „combo LED“.

Step 2:

I wanted to integrate a flasher effect. So I added a 3rd SMD-Led for this, because of the different Voltage Supplys in the pinball. The Led is connceted parallel to the right down flasher.

And all 8 wires must go through the little arm of the Merlin:

Its very small and you need a lot of soldering experience…

In the last state I was in search for the needed molex connectors and found them.

So its possible to make these Mod complete solderless. You have only to connect the Merlin in beetween Magic Hole Insert and the flasher right down.

Here you can see howto add the wires to the playfield:

connect the „combo“ to the Insert PCB

add the flasher molex here

Some picture of the final merlin

Video:

As there is a livetime  competition between Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness, we found finaly the winner:

The Attack from the Merlins!

Hi Folks,

last week I tried to illuminate a Merlin with a blue Led.

If you want a Merlin including this magic RGB-LED you can order it right here

This works good, but I have a better idea in mind. Put a RGB-Led into the Magic Ball.

The hardest part was to get the hole into the glass. A lot of Balls was destroyed during the making…

I am using a powerfull 5mm RGB-Led and reduce the size so it fits into the glas ball:

Now Its time to make place for the wires into the merlin

And here some wiring:

The LED:

First Impressions: Red,Green,Blue

Be on wire:

common plus site of the rgb LED (Pin2):

shematic:

In the final Version we will use shrinking tube and Molex Connectors so you have only to connect it in between to molex parts.

Look here for the molex Version, no soldering, only some doublesided adhesive needed

At the final place:

Video:

Hi Folks,
today I have done some easy mods for my mm.
I started with a Merlin and replaced the original fire with a magic ball 🙂

Here you can see some pictures (easy going…)

With the help of some hot glue the magic ball fits.