Howdy Peeps,

I'm in the throes of restoring a Gottlieb Playball but unfortunately the cabinet had been stripped by the previous owner.  Does anyone out there have a PBall that they could photograph "straight on" for me so I can attampt a repaint?

Cheers,

Scott.

Hmmm a photograph will give you a distorted picture of the graphics.
A better way would be a tracing to have an accurate stencil.
A way I have used with photographs is to mark 100mm x 100mm gridlines in pencil over the artwork (on a machine that is being repainted), then edit the photos you have and create a heap of square images using the gridlines as a square reference, then stitch the images together like a patchwork quilt.
You would be very surprised how curved and distorted a photograph can actually be.

I used Autocad to trace it out and create a drawing to plot full size on paper and then used wallpaper glue to glue the paper to 4mm MDF sheet.
You can see on the photo how I have distorted the image to square it up roughly before tiling it.