My first will never leave me.

1985, working for a gas (LPG) company, filling and delivering bottles and tanks across the UK.

Local delivery to a construction site at the back of some shops & a cafe, the cafe being one I used to frequent bitd. After unloading the bottles, I walked around to the front of the cafe, it was undergoing some renovation so I stuck my head in, all the machines that used to be there were gone apart from one I could see the back of.

I went further in and the back I spotted was a Defender, one of the many I used to play 

I asked one of the guys working there if it was for sale, he said 'yeah £70', I ran around to the lorry and borrowed £70 from the driver and it was on the tail lift and away before the builder had a chance to say anything. I had a Defender !!!, had to drop it off in my back garden and leave there for 4 hours as I was still at work, it was the longest wait ever. Finally got home and took it all the way through the house and up the stairs on my own, into my bedroom where it sat unworking for years, but I had a Defender !!! 

In between here I met my ex-partner and had 3 sons and 3 house moves, Defender came with me !!

Power supply and transformer were missing, I tried almost every operator in the uk, but they had all been thrown away when they were converted, no one had any Defender parts at all, so non working it stayed until I found Ebay in about 2006-7, several purchases later (mostly from the US) and I had all the parts to rebuild with the exception of a working monitor. ought a working chassis from Chad @ Arcadecup but my sons necked the tube with a basketball a few days before it arrived. I then found Jamma+ and almost had a WG monitor but fate put an end to that when the sellers roof collapsed, found and bought one on Ebay later on that month, fitted that and the other parts and for the first time in 25 years, I was playing Defender, better still it was mine.

Now I have 16 cabs and only require another 2 or 3 to *complete* my collection. They will come...

Andy.

Another awesome read, so jealous as is 3 times the size of mine, but then that would leave me room for 3 times the amount of projects 

Your location is fantastic, can't wait to see this one finished and full of loveliness, great job so far Erik

Maybe opposing walls in one colour remaining 2 in another for some contrast. Not a great fan of single colour walls 

Andy.

Thanks, been here for a while but more than 2 forums is complicated

Hey the video was funny, it had a few people convinced for the short time until you told them

I see how things work and I also see no direct upload for pictures on threads, booo hisss   

This means I have to upload my pics elsewhere and link 

Andy.

Good start Michael, wondered how long it would be after the video 

My SI pt 2 is almost ready, another day or so, then its on to the SI

Also waiting for a 2nd run of panels from Troy but yours id a lot worse than mine.

Andy.