I have a whirlwind with a pretty nice cabinet that I am wondering if it is a decal or screened. How can you tell and is it worth it to hire someone to do touch ups. I am going to do a ground up restore on this as soon as the CPR playfield and plastics are done. Would love to hear some advice from people who have done both and which is better. Thanks.
Your game is screened.
There was a time later when Williams applied the white vinyl sheet to the cabinet and screened that. And a couple games like Monster Bash and cactus Canyon were decals.
I don't know if there is a real easy way to tell. It does seem the games like MB and CC wrinkle quicker and worse on the legs.
LTG : )
Nice to know. I thought it was screened. Its almost too nice to go through a full restore, but maybe the way to go would be to have it touched up by a professional artist. There are lockdown holes that need to be filled and a few bumpy areas, but other than those areas the artwork is very nice..
Is it possible for a screened cabinet to have leg damage on the older Bally/Williams cabinets? I saw what I thought was a screened older game that had almost a layer of art pushed up on the "screened cab" near the legs. Didn't make sense, but man it looked like a screened cab! Almost like the art was screened on a layer of something and not the actual wood.
Quoted from Pinball-Wiz:Is it possible for a screened cabinet to have leg damage on the older Bally/Williams cabinets? I saw what I thought was a screened older game that had almost a layer of art pushed up on the "screened cab" near the legs. Didn't make sense, but man it looked like a screened cab! Almost like the art was screened on a layer of something and not the actual wood.
See Lloyd's post above; screened white vinyl sheet.
Quoted from LTG:Your game is screened.
There was a time later when Williams applied the white vinyl sheet to the cabinet and screened that. And a couple games like Monster Bash and Cactus Canyon were decals.
I don't know if there is a real easy way to tell. It does seem the games like MB and CC wrinkle quicker and worse on the legs.
LTG : )
I would have sworn Atlantis was painted on, even up close - it looked that good. The crinkle around the legs though was a sure giveway that this is some sort of printed vinyl sheet (I always thought printed vinyl sheet was the same as a decal, but your description seems to indicate they are different things altogether)
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