What is your budget ?
Realistically it is getting harder and harder to find 'project' pins at a decent price. You prob need to define project also ....if it just means tatty, dirty, needs a good clean, minor repairs to switches etc and a few rubbers and bulbs then that could well apply to many DMD games listed for sale on ebay. Many machines are listed that are basically running but with faults and it often doesn't impact that much on final price ...such is the demand
And really you would be pretty hard pushed these days to find ANY dmd game on the bay for under 550/600 . A Popeye went for 560ish the other day on ebay, there was a LW3 on here recently for 600. But those really are bottom line prices.
If you are after something that is missing playfield parts etc then you need to check carefully that those missing parts are even gonna be sourceable. Machines often got used by ops as 'donors' to keep other better condition games running. And some game parts/mechs are like unicorn horns.
And if you are thinking about a game with either missing boards/dmd or faulty boards then you really need to know yr stuff to be able to repair the board - or you are looking at hundreds of pounds to buy new boards etc. By which time you may as well have bought a working game.
If you were interested in older solid state titles and EMs then you actually might have more chance of picking up projects - often see 60s/70/early 80s games listed along the lines of 'lights up but nothing else works etc' . I have sold several early 80s games recently that I just didn't have time or money to throw at them ....they needed board work or new boards and/or displays possibly..... each for 200+ ish.
Apologies if this sounds a bit negative, not trying to put you off , just how I see things at present.
Good luck in the hunt, hope you find something.
