Rolpa's Budget Tabletop Virtual Pin

[Rolpa]

Hello everyone! Longtime lurker here...

I was out shopping one day when I came across this children's foosball game on sale for two bucks. The average Joe would probably see a cheap piece of %$&* and turn away... but I saw the perfect shell for a virtual pinball cab.   

And so I purchased my bargain bin children's toy and bought it back to its new home. The plan is to turn this thing into a neat little tabletop pin on a meager budget (<$200). I already have a laptop I can salvage for a 15" screen - though not an actual computer, since the machine is some ten years old and probably much to weak for Visual Pinball. I'll probably turn to a cheapo Windows tablet to power the machine, and apparently a I've already assembled the frame and discarded all the extraneous bits I won't be needing. The next step will probably be to stick some wood putty into those ugly holes and sand it down. From there, I can start figuring out the placement of the guts of the machine and mount some controls. More to come...