WTB Astro City 2L12B panel (not repro)

[dos]

I'm looking for an Astro City 2L12B panel, either original Sega or Sanwa/Seimitsu licensed, but don't want a repro or a 2L6B that has had extra holes drilled in. You can tell by the size of the silver area under the controls if the panel came with 6 buttons per player from the factory:

Original (what I'm looking for):

Modified 2L6B (what I don't want):

I only need the panel, no sticks or buttons. if you have the harness it's a bonus (but not necessary). Please PM me with your offers.

 

[dos]

Bump, anyone?

 

[Aurich]

Just saying, the repros by @alberto1225 are godlike, I'd at least consider them. Super nice quality, all my Astros have them.

 

[donluca]

Just saying, the repros by @alberto1225 are godlike, I'd at least consider them. Super nice quality, all my Astros have them.

I'm interested as well! Does he have a website or something/somewhere where he shows his work? I have a 2L12B repro panel which is atrocious

 

[gamenwatch]

I'm looking for an Astro City 2L12B panel, either original Sega or Sanwa/Seimitsu licensed, but don't want a repro or a 2L6B that has had extra holes drilled in. You can tell by the size of the silver area under the controls if the panel came with 6 buttons per player from the factory:

Original (what I'm looking for):

Modified 2L6B (what I don't want):

I only need the panel, no sticks or buttons. if you have the harness it's a bonus (but not necessary). Please PM me with your offers.

Actually the top photo is only original in the sense that it's a Sanwa panel licensed by Sega, but not a NOS Sega Astro City panel (which probably the ones that exist are all rusted up).

 

[Aurich]

Just saying, the repros by @alberto1225 are godlike, I'd at least consider them. Super nice quality, all my Astros have them.

I'm interested as well! Does he have a website or something/somewhere where he shows his work? I have a 2L12B repro panel which is atrocious

PM him with the name I linked, he has a Flickr page with photos.

 

[dos]

Actually the top photo is only original in the sense that it's a Sanwa panel licensed by Sega, but not a NOS Sega Astro City panel (which probably the ones that exist are all rusted up).

From what I understand (figured out after making this thread) Sega themselves didn't make "official" 2L12B panels, the ones you see with only a Sega logo instead of "licensed by" are either repros or hacked up Virtua Fighter style 2L6B panels, which do have the smaller bottom silver area. I would love to be proved wrong, but so far I have seen no evidence of a real Sega 2L12B panel for astro citys. They are all either Sanwa or Seimitsu panels, which is fine since they are produced to the same standards as real Sega panels and from what I understand may have even come from the same factory (or at least the overlays did). either way, the colors and materials used in the Sanwa and Seimitsu licensed panels match Sega astro panels exactly, which no repro I've seen has managed to do.

edit: also the alberto repro 2L12B panels are nice but the colors are off and they do not have the metallic silver color in the "power control system" area the "real" panels do (they are just grey). I do have one of his 1L6B panes which is one of the few he makes that is metallic but I've since gotten a clean Sanwa 1L6B and the colors of things like the "astro city" logo are still off when comparing alberto's with the sanwa (the real panels have a dayglow yellow astro city logo, alberto's is normal yellow). Just my personal taste but I would rather have a used original panel than a super clean new repro.

edit2: I should really state that just because I posted a pic of a NOS panel as an example, it doesn't mean I'm looking for a NOS panel which I know is very hard to find. A bit of "character" is totally fine with me

 

[dos]

bump, still looking. I'm willing to buy one even in poor condition