Ship-Mates

A 1950s-style electro-mechanical playfield on a pale blue-grey ground, dominated by a huge red-and-gold ship's wheel motif in the centre and a transparent plastic arch across the top. Four large round bumpers with cream/yellow caps and blue '10 POINTS WHEN LIT' discs are set in a diamond (one high centre, one mid centre, two lower left and right). Two painted blonde women in sailor caps and orange-gold swimsuits flank the upper bumpers; two more pin-up women in orange tops and blue skirts stand on the left and right side lanes, each above a painted anchor-and-rope column. A central diamond plaque shows three laughing, singing women around a red numeral 2. The lower playfield carries a cream fan of three numbered flipper-butter lanes, striped red-white-blue fan wings, green arrows reading '10 POINTS WHEN LIT', and a shield reading 'SAME PLAYER AGAIN WHEN LIT'. Lettering is bold condensed sans-serif in red, yellow, white and black on coloured banners. Cream metal side rails and worn, scuffed paint surround the lower apron with instruction cards.

A painted, cartoon-style backglass on a wooden pinball cabinet, bordered in pale wood with a dark blue outer edge. The centre is dominated by a full-height grinning naval soldier in a white sailor cap, pale uniform shirt with a black neckerchief, grey trousers and black shoes, standing legs apart on a wooden deck. A small blonde woman in a navy-blue dress and white cap stands on his raised right shoulder. Behind them is a blue-grey sky with white clouds and a dark navy sea band across the middle, with a small grey warship silhouette at the right. Four sets of mechanical score reels with white number wheels and black digits sit left and right, each in a red-and-cream rounded frame with a red oval number disc (1, 2, 3, 4) above and a red banner label below reading 1ST PLAYER, 2ND PLAYER, 3RD PLAYER, 4TH PLAYER. Across the lower centre the title SHIP-MATES arcs in chunky red block letters with white and yellow outline. A pale row of numerals 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 runs along the top left, TILT glows top centre, and two bordered instruction panels flank the title.

A rectangular painted backglass with a pale sky-blue sky, scattered white clouds and a flat blue sea horizon band across the middle. Dead centre stands a single cartoon naval officer: an adult man with a broad grinning face, ruddy cheeks, a white peaked sailor cap, a red neckerchief, a pale blue-grey double-breasted jacket with dark buttons, matching trousers and black shoes. He stands full-length facing the viewer, arms bent, holding a small object at chest height in one hand. Four red oval number medallions numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 are set symmetrically in two columns, each crowning a white rectangular reel window with rounded corners and red-and-yellow trim; the windows read .33-9, .33-3, .297 and .355. Small yellow-and-blue birds perch on the medallions and beside the sailor's shoulders. Lettering is chunky and cartoonish: a curved red title SHIP-MATES with white outline across the lower centre, yellow script above it. Bottom left a yellow-bordered instruction panel; bottom right a white panel headed 1 2 3 4. Tiny maker text sits in the top right corner.