Indeed, you rarely realize that it takes so much work. Of course, SFR is a later generation and quite elaborate cab, but the basics have been about the same ever since Atari stopped producing the glass-fiber cabs I guess.)
I wonder how many they made in a day....
Did you notice that the cab got sprayed with the artwork already on the cab. Maybe some read it in my SW cockpit thread on BYOAC, but when I bought (and fist played) my SW cockpit I noticed something in the picture, like a bit of "cloudy" stuff. When I moved my head, I could see that it wasn't on the CRT itself but on the plexi bezel: there was black spray paint on it !
Could be the plexi already has been in there during painting...