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Bally Boomerang Plastics

By scottacus

5 years ago



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    #1 5 years ago

    I build EM virtual pinball games as a hobby and one of the games that I am working on right now is Bally's Boomerang. This table is special to me because when I was growing up, my uncle had one of these in his rec room. Its the machine where I learned that there is more to pinball than pressing both flippers at the same time and hoping the ball doesn't drain.

    I've got the game coded and built but I don't have any good images for the plastics because I don't have access to one (my uncle sold the machine many years ago). I've hand drawn the plastics for many other games that I've made and also received photos from owners of these games. The graphics that I've vector drawn have been pointy people games but Marche's Boomerang has some fairly detailed images on the plastics that will be hard to draw.

    Would anyone who owns one of these please help me out by shooting photos of the plastics with the glass off of the table and the table in a powered down state? The images would need to be taken from directly above (to minimize lens distortion), shot with no light reflections on them and for the bigger plastics at the top of the table, they would need to be shot in segments with about 25% overlap between the photos.

    Again I make these tables and distribute them for free so there is no financial stake for me, just making these games available to the public because i like writing code and because it's fun to have other people enjoy them. Here are links to tables that I've made should anyone be interested in seeing them:

    https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/capersville-bally-1966-2/
    https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/oxo-williams-1973-2/
    https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/sea-ray-bally-1971/
    https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/mariner-bally-1971/
    https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/gulfstream-williams-1973/
    https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/four-million-bc-bally-1971/

    Here's Boomerang thus far in a fairly rough state with the GI off.

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