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This Black Knight cabinet needed a bit of work in my opinion but did not need anywhere near as much restore work as Flash, Gorgar or Tri Zone but I am REALLY fussy and I wanted this classic looking perfect again. So I started looking around for someone that may have sold reproduction stickers of the cabinet artwork and I found a company that, at the time was great but these days are hopeless with product and service so I will not promote them here as I used to. However, nowadays there is a couple of guys at a company called Pinball Pal who may be able to help you out with Black Knight "use once" cabinet stencils so that you can at least re-spray your Black Knight if you want it looking good again. Personally, I grabbed the repro cabinet stickers from the old company before they turned the company into a disaster and I found them to be extremely good, these sticker kits were not cheap, I think they cost me about $250 US Dollars but they are extremely high quality re-prints and I feel they were worth every cent.
Below is a shot in the garage just before it went into the gamesroom.
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Maybe I am the odd man out but I cant understand the reason why so many collectors want the machines in the crappy condition they are in today- to me they MUST be pristine. People see an old car that is rusted and NOT restored and view it as an absolute shitbox, then they see that car FULLY restored and admire it- WHY doesn't that thinking apply to Pinball machines? And to purists who think this devalues a game you should know that this game sold in 2007 for $4350.00 and then again sold in late 2008 for $4400.00 so I refuse to hear any arguments that decaling over an older game takes value out of it. I don't make this statement to be a smart-arse, rather to prove that in my experiences this ADDS to the value of an old classic.
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