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!!THUMBSX2!! Hi everyone, well after 6 long years of dithering, I've finally finished my Old Penny Arcade. Most of the work was converting the old market stall and painting the boards with sign writing enamels. The best bits have been tracking down some fun machines and giving them a bit of an mot and painting the little ticket signs. I've had to buy cheap and cheerful machines to get me started, but I'm hoping to buy ones I particularly remember playing on (a proper Parkers Carousel, Easy Push, Bell Fruit Penny Special etc) as I go along. I hope you like what you see...I'm having a bit of a rest from painting now, as it's sent me over the edge SkEpTiCaL :HaHa:
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That's lovely! Great job.
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That is great artwork !!THUMBSX2!! there is a lotta colour in that :cool: .....are you planning to travel and operate with this?
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A fantastic job, and a labour of love for sure. !!THUMBSX2!!
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Super job, well done and good luck with it. !!THUMBSX2!!
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There are some very talented folk on this site. !!HOORAY!!
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moonriver wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 8:58 pm That's lovely! Great job.
Thank you; I'm well pleased with it!
treefrog wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:06 pm That is great artwork !!THUMBSX2!! there is a lotta colour in that :cool: .....are you planning to travel and operate with this?
Yeah, the Mrs said she wanted plenty of colour to cheer everyone up! :D It's already booked to go out on private hire (even before it was finished!) and hoping to get it out to some local events in the summer hols and Christmas!
coppinpr wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:03 pm A fantastic job, and a labour of love for sure. !!THUMBSX2!!
Thank you, absolutely! I'd been finishing off a little Coulson roundabout too, so took a lot longer than I thought it would, so nice to see it all done now!
13rebel wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:18 pm Super job, well done and good luck with it. !!THUMBSX2!!
Thank you! The Mrs gave me an old penny luck money! :lol:
pennymachines wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:02 pm There are some very talented folk on this site. !!HOORAY!!
Thank you so much; had to draft the Mrs in to draft out Lady Britannia's face, but other than that all my own work and very proud of it now it's come together. !!THUMBSX2!!
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Looks fantastic.
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Looks great. A very good job, well done and good luck.
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Superb job. **xXx**
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Brilliant job, well done.
Is that one of the Retro-Arcade chocolate machines on the far right?
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special when lit wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:59 am Looks fantastic.
Thank you; much appreciated!
mr merrivale wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 12:13 pm Looks great. A very good job, well done and good luck.
Thank you and thanks for the luck!
highfield wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 1:20 pm Superb job. **xXx**
Thank you so much!
arrgee wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:19 pm Brilliant job, well done.
Is that one of the Retro-Arcade chocolate machines on the far right?
Yes well spotted! Tried to hunt one down for a while now (the real article) even had a word with me ole mate Ray Roberts who used to make them, and couldn't find one for my life. Hoping to exchange this one for a proper Parkers Carousel when I can!
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Very cool! Two questions: can we see the machines on the left side? What tunes you playing on the speakers? :)
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Russ Conway, I would hope.
With a background of bingo calling...
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cait001 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:59 am Very cool! Two questions: can we see the machines on the left side? What tunes you playing on the speakers? :)
Thank you and you certainly can; pics attached!
brigham wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:17 am Russ Conway, I would hope.
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No doubt there will be some Russ Conway tunes! Rule Britannia may be fitting! :D

Some good time fairground music, a bit of rock 'n' roll and a bit of northern soul; it's the job I'm the most excited about, picking the tunes! :HaHa: Small things!
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cjfenney wrote:Some good time fairground music, a bit of rock 'n' roll and a bit of northern soul

That's great - combined with the bright colours of the stall, the sound of the steel balls rattling around and the pennies dropping, all you need now is a candy floss machine to wrap all those sensory sensations into an authentic 1950s - 1960s experience - superb.
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Please remove if not acceptable, but just wanted to show those interested in the Penny Arcade and how we have it set up now. We've taken it out on the road a couple of times, but mainly for paid hire events, this weekend just gone, we took it out for a garden centre Christmas event and we were surprised how popular it was! We'll be going there again this weekend, and it gives our 14 year old son 'something useful' to do at the weekend too! :lol: Hope you enjoy the video.
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Hi Chris,

This looks fantastic. Great to see more people enabling the public to play this machines :-)
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Hi Chris, Nice set up. I can see you've put a lot of effort into this. Well done mate. !!THUMBSX2!!
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I thought I recognised the stall and realised you have a lovely range of fairground items for hire. A colleague of mine who knows of you and Paul does similar stuff down my way in Suffolk, excluding a penny arcade. I threatened to add an arcade to his inventory as I would love to have a go. Also think hire rates are very reasonable and everything is in such perfect condition. !!THUMBSX2!!

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