Hi All,
My first post here so go easy on me, I've owned a couple of pins now for a few months and am in the market for a Elvira and the party monsters. I found one yesterday, that was in really bad shape, I noticed some planking in the center of the PF, and from my experience with the two I have now (Catacomb and a Space Invaders), these two are silk screened PF's, the Elvira did not looked silk screened to me, it looked like a mylar covering the wood. I based that on the planking I saw didn't split the color/paint, as I've seen on silk screens PF's, but the surface looked bubbled. Also it looked to me that some of the inserts cupped/sunk, and there was an air gap between the insert, and a clear mylar cover over the insert which was part of the whole artwork.
Does what I'm describing sound correct for a late 80's Bally, did some pins have artwork PF's that weren't silk screened, but mylar?
I used to paint cars at for a living and have restored and cleared my first silkscreen PF, but from my painting experience you can't paint on mylar. So the repair/restore on this looked like a tuff proposition.
John