We were lucky enough to find someone with not one but two Asteroid Annie and the Aliens pinball machines. Going to post photos as we restore these super rare pinball machines.

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Damn some big files.

Let the reconstruction begin. Glass ordered. Going to attempt UV printing on glass and then screening a reflective layer mask behind it. More to come.

After about 6hrs into the glass restore I decided that the pixel acuity wasn't good enough for me. Did a test on paper and while 95% of people looking at it from 4ft would have said it's amazing I couldn't stand it. Found a specialized scanner that had a depth of scanning that would do the trick.

Robert and I went and looked at the UV double strike on white with the reflective mask on the back and we were pleasantly surprised by the color saturation of reverse printing on glass. Here is a sample of the new scan. PRE color correction. PRE sharpen. Gives you a good idea of how much work we have to do to clean it up, but you can clearly see the difference in sharpness. Pink is where we have no paint.

As much as I would like to have someone who can screen this for me, I don't think it's feasible to do. If anyone has advise on this or contacts that are willing to try, please get in touch.

Anyways thanks for following along on the journey. We are also re-producing one playfield, so stay tuned for that.

Thanks for the bump. I’ll post photos, but not much has happened, we picked up glass for the printing and have tested direct to play field printing on a Bally table for testing color saturation and alignment.

Cab - both are sanded and ready for paint. It’s winter in Canada so we are waiting for good weather, maybe next month? Vector decals are done, decal cutter acquired and tested,
Boards - all good!
Play field - retouch was put on hold for a bally project mentioned above
Back glass - same status, but glass is all cut ready for print,

I’ll let Pinball-Rob update his side

back to work

First play-field print test done. Color needs some work. If anyone has a pantone book and a NOS play-field I would love some swatch numbers.

Also, backglass art done. Still finding small imperfections.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind! I don't have the skill or the materials to make them from scratch. We will be printing on the old wood. I imagine there would be some issues with putting these up for sale so no plans to do that at this time. Here is a low-res preview. If you see issues please let me know still finding things to fix myself.