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Isaac Sauvage

Strike Bowler (Bally, 1957) (IkeS) Backglass

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djkirp said:
I do. Do you know where I could get that done at?
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Assuming you want to physically re-create a backglass:

1) If you still have whatever's left of the original, you could send it to BGResto.com in Australia to restore it. See the site for plenty of examples.

2) If all you have is a photo / art, then you'd need someone to take the low-quality image and convert it to vector-based art for best results. As a matter of fact a German bloke has been doing great work on that kind of thing. Examples: https://pinballnirvana.com/forums/media/users/hd474.5250/

Then I believe you'll need to get that printed out on special decal paper applied to a virgin, plain BG. @Skidoo in Canada did something like that late last year. See:

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"I'm looking for this backglass. Do you have it?"

I agree but don’t have that level of experience with VP. I did find some low resolution images that I’ve attempted to improve upon but was hoping someone had already done so with good success.
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Isaac Sauvage said:
Assuming you want to physically re-create a backglass:

1) If you still have whatever's left of the original, you could send it to BGResto.com in Australia to restore it. See the site for plenty of examples.

2) If all you have is a photo / art, then you'd need someone to take the low-quality image and convert it to vector-based art for best results. As a matter of fact a German bloke has been doing great work on that kind of thing. Examples: https://pinballnirvana.com/forums/media/users/hd474.5250/

Then I believe you'll need to get that printed out on special decal paper applied to a virgin, plain BG. @Skidoo in Canada did something like that late last year. See:

pinballnirvana.com

"I'm looking for this backglass. Do you have it?"

I agree but don’t have that level of experience with VP. I did find some low resolution images that I’ve attempted to improve upon but was hoping someone had already done so with good success.
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Thank you! I'm going to give BGResto.com a shot. I would like to get a replacement and keep the original as art maybe.
 
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djkirp said:
Thank you! I'm going to give BGResto.com a shot. I would like to get a replacement and keep the original as art maybe.
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Btw-- my understanding is that they require customers to send them the physical original backglass, even if it's beat to all hell.

I'm not quite sure if that's based on the laws in Oz, for example it might be breaking copyright to physically re-create a backglass they hadn't licensed, whereas it being perfectly legal to restore originals.

Of course it's possible that their policy has changed since then, so you'll need to enquire. And who knows, maybe they have some kind of 'backdoor' service, either way.
 
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