Whirlwind

Full-body view of a pinball machine photographed head-on under glass, its cabinet and lockdown bar framing a steel and heavily varnished playfield. The lower two-thirds are dominated by a deep blue radial sunburst that fades into a warm orange and amber apron. At the centre sits a large eight-pointed gold star medallion ringed with red-outlined lettering, with three painted oval medallions above it showing orange and cream swirl motifs on blue. Two red-tinted pop bumper caps, several post rubbers, two clear ramps with chrome rails and one wireform arc climb a crowded upper half lit by blue and red lamps. Printed instruction cards sit on the apron and backbox glass: a cream rules card on the right and a black bonus-rules card on the left, flanking a round yellow disc carrying a red three-pointed emblem. Condition is good, with bright inserts, glossy plastics and only light playfield wear.

Painted airbrushed backglass. A colossal grey-blue storm-cloud face with a grimacing mouth, heavy moustache-like shadow and two thunderbolt-glinting eyes looms out of an orange-yellow sunset sky, its outstretched arms gathering a dark tornado funnel on the right. Large italic blue block letters with white and grey three-dimensional shading spell WHIRLWIND across the top, over a flaming orange cloud band. Lower left: a bright red moving van, side lettered ANY TIME...ANY WHERE!, carrying a logo of a blue-grey tornado funnel over a globe with yellow script 'A Handy Shaver' on a red ribbon. A grinning middle-aged white man in a grey flat cap, round spectacles and a white T-shirt leans out of the driver's window holding the wheel. Lower right: a green-and-orange 1950s convertible with a small dog and two men aboard, one in a red-and-white striped shirt raising a black object, near a yellow diamond sign reading FUNNEL CROSSING with a black tornado drawing. Rolling green hills, red barn, white farmhouse, roadside billboards, telephone poles, arrows and a grey road complete the scene.

A riotous cartoon backglass in a comic-book/airbrushed style, dominated by a huge italic white-and-pale-blue lightning-bolt title across the top reading WHIRLWIND, with TOTAL CHAOS in smaller metallic-blue block capitals on a white lightning flash directly beneath it. The centre of the glass is a white burst of energy containing a hand-drawn yellow-gold compass rose labelled with red letters W, E and S around a spiral sun, surrounded by faint blue-green sketch annotations and cursive script. Below that sits a red open-top hot rod with chrome grille and white headlight beam, driven by a grinning man in a blue-and-white cap marked 13, sunglasses and a headset microphone, one hand on the wheel. The four corners are packed with monsters: a snarling yellow-green reptilian monster roaring at mid-left, a floating blue-and-white cartoon bird head at top left, a metallic flying saucer with a small goggled alien at top right, a brown monkey in a black bowler hat playing a trumpet at mid-right, a red-brown wild boar head with tusks and a blue cap at right, a black-and-white radiation trefoil sign on a post, and a bright green three-eyed cartoon monster with both arms raised at bottom right. A red rooster head with huge blue eyes peers in at bottom left beside spiky green leaves, a golden pyramid with a single eye floats upper-centre-left, and a painted city skyline of orange and grey towers and a blue tornado funnel fill the left background. Dominant colours: bright yellow, electric blue, red, white.