Mid-1940's Chicago Coin Goalee Restoration Help?

phreak97

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Hello,
I've got a few EM restorations ahead of me, the first one is my Chicago Coin Goalee,
I've got the electrics mostly sorted, all cleaned up and every part tested individually, but not yet as a complete assembly because I want to do it all while it's apart instead of disassembling it and reassembling it a bunch of times.

I'm moving on to the cosmetics a bit, I've been gathering information on repairing the veneer on some woodworking forums, but now I've hit a hard one..

Goalee is meant to have two hockey players painted over the middle of the playfield (see photos below). Mine has this.. but it's under about three other layers of paint. :(

Has anybody got any suggestions for possibley uncovering them without damaging it?

I used a scraper and worked in from an edge until I found that my playfield does indeed have the players on it, but the scraper is too difficult to use carefully, I already lifted off a bit of the paint I was trying to save and took a couple of little nicks out of the wood.

Any Ideas?

This is someone elses machine showing the original paint:

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And my playfield showing the green player's elbow:

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alternatively if someone else has one of these games with the paint in good nick, a high res photo pointing directly down on a clean playfield with no glass on it would probably help me get an iron on transfer made or something.. then I could just sand it away, repaint it, attach the transfer, then clear coat it.. but I'd ideally like to uncover the original art.

Regards,
James
 
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