I've got a bunch of Stars...
Firestar Plus M243 9mm (Starvel)
Two Firestar M45 (one Starvel, one Cerakote)
Ultrastar M205 9mm (blued)
Ultrastar M205 .40S&W (blued)
Megastar 45 (Blued)
Previously owned
Firestar M43 9mm (grip was just too tiny, traded for the M243)
Star M30P 9mm (my first semi-auto, sold during hard times in the 90's)
Steel's good with those Number Model Stars.
Only hard things to find are .40 mags for the Ultrastar
(tons of 9mm mags around, still made by Triple K)
and 14-rd mags for the Megastar 45, 10-rds are easy.
Parts are thru SARCO and other places like Jack First.
Springs thru J&P and WOLFF.
Firing Pins from Bill DeShivs on this very forum!!
Eventually I'll find another M30/31, as I've still got two mags left for one.
& a Megastar 10 in Starvel is a Must-Have...
and then hopefully one day I'll run across a M243 frame and a M40 slide,
to make my very own Frankengun M240...
which uses S&W .40 double-stack mags...
no surprise as every other Star Number series does use S&W mags...
only ones that don't are the Megastar and the Ultrastar .40...
and that's only until I figure out what base mag the .40 used
We think the Megastar used Caspian/Para-Ord 14-rd .45acp double-stack mags
with a proprietary mag catch hole, but haven't gotten to testing either
of those mags yet...availability has been spotty lately with the closure of Para-Ord.
Given time, it's a question that will be solved.