I've got hands. And I've got pinball.

I've been wanting for some time now to get a decent digital camera to get some good reference photos for my FPS game Shadows. Too much work (I make/deliver pizza) and I find myself drained and useless and I just haven't done it. I have a hard time finding any kind of work so I feel grateful to have my job but still, it's draining. I did make some progress at least with the visual appeal of the game. I purchased a pack from Max Thomas with a Glock and a Mac10, which both got added to the game. The cool thing is they both include hand models for first-person so I've used the hand models with the rest of the arsenal in my game as well
(many of them from the Modern Weapons Pack)

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Anyway, the announcement of the price change on TGB spurred me into actually buying it some weeks ago.
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to work with. I've got a rough but playable pinball
game working:

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It was relatively simple to make a border, a ball, some flippers, and a bit on the bottom to move your ball back to the shooting thingy. No, I've never designed a pinball game. I've played quite a bit of pinball in my younger years and I've always had fun with it. While searching I found an excellent resource for
pinball collectors, or in my case, people interested in seeing real photos of LOTS of old and new pinball games
for reference.

www.ipdb.org/

Internet Pinball Database is awesome. Definitely gives me some material to look at for ideas =)