Gottlieb Flying Carpet backglass restoration

A guy walked in with his original Gottlieb Flying Carpet backglass. It was in pretty rough shape, with cracks in the inks over nearly the entire glass. He had bought the game without a glass, and after two years of searching, found this original glass. It was all he had, and obviously in pretty poor condition. So he requested we re-do his glass to make it more presentable.

Here’s the original front of his glass…

Here’s our correction of the glass (we may have to adjust the colors using a Pantone color guide, but for this initial print, it seems the colors are pretty good.)

And the back of the original glass, which really shows all the imperfections. The backlit areas are a major problem as the light shines easily through the cracks, making the glass very distracting.

And our correction of the back mask…