I picked up a working Star Castle on trade a couple days ago. Overall it's in decent shape. It works (a plus!)... and works well. The tube had recently been swapped and is nice and bright. The control panel is in nice shape and won't need to be replaced. The marquee is in good shape aside from bracket wear and should backlight fine (of course the marquee lamp isn't functioning, but that's an easy fix). The bezel was pretty scratched up... but I was VERY pleased to find that most scratches were superficial and with about 10 minutes of Novus buffing...it looks good... I'd venture to say 8.5/10 good... which is a relief as this bezel isn't available as repro. The front of the cab looks good... coin door is in good shape and even the coin door sticker remains...and is in decent shape.
Now on to the bad... the worst of the bad is that some dumb bastard (or multiple dumb ---daisies---) apparently kicked out the bottom front corners of the cab. It's been strategically cut (and painted) to appear as if it's supposed to be that way... but it's not. I am going to have to cut out both front corners, and add wood... which means I finally get to buy a slot cutter for the T-Molding. The right side of the cab (looking at it) is in about 8/10 condition overall... once it's cleaned up.. but the other side is pretty beat down with trashed side-art and plenty of paint scratches, etc...
She's most definitely worth restoring back to her former glory!
Here she is:
I also picked up 2 additional monitors in the trade. One is complete and working... but with a dim Amprex tube. The other chassis is missing parts (transistors & a couple socketed chips)... also with a tested dim Aprex tube.
I traded my System 1 Indiana Jones and Road Blaster kits... I've determined that "kits" just don't work with me. The "kits" that aren't being used just sit... to never ever be used. I kept Marble Madness in the cab (of course).