Quoted from beatmaster:i received one and send it back, that's how bad it looks, way too dark, no definition.
good if you have a machine with no backglass and can't find one.
That was the 2017 silkscreened run. See post #64 above. Sold out. That is not what has been shipping since the playfields came out.
Quoted from DougZ3:Yes I got it with a playfield...
and yes it looks washed out side by side
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Great comparison. I see a completely different result.
The new 2019 print is not washed out at all. It's a perfect match to the NOS one we were loaned. An exact copy, really.
Again, everybody forgets there were 18,250 original Playboy backglasses printed, across several vendors. Yours, nor anybody's, is the holy grail.
Not that any of us could, but set 10 randomly selected Playboy original glasses next to each other and do the same comparison.
Now that said, in this particular side-by-side, one could say the original's bushes and grotto water are "washed out" - as the repro has more color. As well as the swimsuits, blue jeans, etc. Seems like eyes are just going to only the skintones. Which is natural I guess. But I can tell you that the difference in fleshtone levels, between these two glasses, is in the mere 2-3% range. Which is easily possible across different original glasses.
You haven't unwrapped your repro yet, so you haven't found out about it's hidden layering. It's a 6-layer print. Light it up, and those fleshtones will deepen down some into balanced perfection. Possibly even more tone than your original when lit. That goes for all the colors holding up.
All that said... I propose a fun challenge. Put each one in the backbox, light it up, and take a picture. Post both pictures. *Don't say which is which* Let the commenting begin on differences. Folks can comment on which one looks better/same/worse than the other, and why, and which they think is which.
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