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Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, CANADA

Kevin has been an active pinball player since his youth, starting with hundreds of quarters being pumped into machines at campgrounds during family camping trips when he was a child. Today, the only machines Kevin distinctly remembers playing in his youth were Flight 2000 and Black Hole, when he was 8 years old. Going through a "non-pin" phase in junior and senior high school, Kevin returned to pin playing in university, and probably spent hundreds of dollars in The Addams Family and Tales From the Crypt. He has worked in the digital printing industry for 5 years as a color specialist with Xerox and has traveled the US and Canada working with the famed DocuColor and IGEN3 products.  Kevin's experience with graphics work on the computer started way back with CorelDRAW 2.0.  He carried the artwork torch for CPR almost exclusively from the beginning, but looks forward to many more parts being made possible via the Art Team effort.

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 5

Software of choice:  CorelDRAW X3

Completed / Produced projects:
 
F2K plastics, Xenon plastics, BK plastics, LW plastics, BR plastics, WCS94 plastics, PBot plastics, FG plastics, Paragon plastics, Mermaid playfield, F2K backglass, BR backglass

Active projects: 
XENON playfield artwork
 

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JEFF ELIE
Owen Sound, Ontario, CANADA

Jeff’s love affair with pinball began twenty-five years ago when, while at university, he acquired a nearly-new Black Knight. He used the proceeds it generated on location in the student coffee shop to start a scholarship foundation for incoming students. Years later he purchased a BK of his own, and rekindled his passion for the silver ball through a lengthy and meticulous restoration process, which included recreating the playfield art. Today his collection represents more than eight decades of pinball development, and comprises several milestone machines, including the first pin – a 1931 Whiffle; the first electric pin – a 1933 Autocount, as well as games from the golden age of woodrails, through the heyday of electro-mechanical machines, to those glorious solid state standards of the ‘90s. When not head-and-shoulders inside a pinball machine, Jeff can be found restoring Edison cylinder phonographs, or tinkering with his 1975 Triumph Spitfire, or cruising the Sydenham River in his hand-built cedar-strip canoe. He owns Sydenham Publishing, a marketing communications firm based in picturesque Owen Sound, Ontario. 

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 25

Software of choice:  Adobe Photoshop, CorelDRAW

Completed / Produced projects:
 
BLACK KNIGHT double playfield set

Active projects: 
HIGH SPEED playfield
 
JODY LOBERT
Pittsburg, PA, USA

Jody has been into pinball since 1972.  He is partial to late 70's/early 80's games, especially the early 80's Bally machines.  Jody also likes Gottlieb EM's. He got his first pinball machine at the age of 13!  His professional background is in graphic design. He's been using the computer for illustration since 1991. He prefers vector illustration, and has done all sorts of projects using CorelDraw, but re-creating pinball line art is his favorite use of his spare computer time. Flash Gordon is the only complete plastics set he's re-created so far. Jody would like to do other plastics like Medusa or Royal Flush. The playfields he would like to do are: Haunted House, possibly some late 70's Gottlieb titles such as El Dorado, and newer DMD titles. 

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 35

Software of choice:  CorelDRAW

Completed / Produced projects:
 
Flash Gordon plastics set
F-14 TOMCAT plastics set

Active projects: 
MEDUSA plastics set


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MIKE LORRAIN
Seattle, WA  USA

Mike has been into pinball as a player since 1975, and as a hobbyist since 2007.  He likes games from the 80s on up to today.  He owns the following pins:  Family Guy, Elvis, Funhouse, Cyclone, Firepower II and Haunted House.  Mike is the co-owner of Quantum Productions Inc., a corporate film and video production company.  He’s been running the business for over 11 years, and recently they’ve just completed their first independent feature film.  He creates all types of print and motion graphics using 3D Studio Max, Adobe Photoshop, After Effects and Illustrator.  He’s excited to be a part of the CPR graphics team, and the opportunity to apply his graphic design skills to make a positive difference in the pinball community.  In his spare time, Mike plays tennis, pinball and video games. He also enjoys collecting rare 12" vinyl records and music videos from the 80s. In 2002, Mike married his wife, Cynthia. In 2006 they welcomed their son Brett as the newest member of the family.  When Brett is a little older, Mike looks forward to teaching him how to play pinball. 

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 1

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator CS3

Completed projects:
CYCLONE plastics set

Active projects:
 
BREAKSHOT backglass



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MADELYNNE PURSGLOVE
Audubon, NJ, USA

Madelynne played some pinball starting in the 80s, but didn't enter the hobby until 1998 when she and her husband John brought home a Taxi. They now have 10 working pins and several projects in their "game-arage".   Madelynne has been in the Graphic Design business for over 13 years, doing freelance as well as in-house design for the Marketing department in a major metro newspaper. She has done a variety of work - from billboards to web pages and works mostly in Freehand, Photoshop and Quark XPress. She has done some scanning and touching up of some plastics for personal use, including Taxi and Devils Dare. She hopes to tackle several reproduction projects including High Speed, Catacomb, Seawitch and Space Invaders.


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 9

Software of choice:  (Apple)  Freehand, Photoshop, Quark XPress

Completed projects:
High Speed plastics set

Active projects: 
Stern CATACOMB plastics set
Stern SEAWITCH playfield, backglass
Stern NINE BALL playfield, plastics, backglass


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MIKE MILLS
Bardstown, KY, USA

Mike has been a hobbyist since 2007 and has quickly become addicted to pinball repair and restoration.  Mike's collection includes Fathom, Captain Fantastic, PinBot, Playboy and Xenon. He also has several others in the shop for repairs and restoration.  Mike is a Network Engineer by trade, but has been a Photoshop/Illustrator hobbyist for several years.  He prefers Bally machines from the late 70's through the mid 80's, and would like to recreate plastics and playfields from this era.

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 1

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator CS3

Completed projects:
Playboy plastics set, Captain Fantastic plastics set, BlackJack plastics set, Silverball Mania plastics set, Eight Ball Plastics Set, Hang Glider plastics set, Eight Ball playfield, Captain Fantastic playfield, Taxi plastics, Wizard plastics set,
Space Invaders plastics set

Active projects: 
Playboy playfield
DINER plastics set
SeaWitch plastics set


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JOHN MOLEDOR
Hartville, OH, USA

John has been playing pinball for many years and wanted a pinball machine for a long time.  It wasn't until his he and his wife Tricia moved into their current home that they had the space for a collection of machines.  Tricia and John bought their first machine, Haunted House, in 2005.  He has been adding ever since.  They currently have 5 machines: Haunted House, Jurassic Park, Sharpshooter, Meteor, & Toledo, and have parted ways with 2 others: Whirlwind and Four Seasons (because they were running out of room!)  John is especially interested in Gameplan machines and is working hard to complete his Sharpshooter restoration soon.  He would like to work on anything Gameplan and himself needs a new backglass for their Meteor.  John is currently a Computer Tech for a major insurance company but also has AutoCAD and machine building experience.  He has worked with Photoshop ever since dabbling with it at Kent State University.  He received his BSc in Technology, in 2004.  John has re-touched several photographs and graphics for pinballs but is looking forward to working with vector art.  This pinball guy also has a good sized collection of Lionel Trains,  enjoys watching sports, and bowling with his buddies.

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 2

Software of choice:  Photoshop, AutoCAD

Active projects: 
Embryon plastics set

LANCE FOSTER
Bridgewater, VA, USA

Lance has a BFA in art and has been a graphic designer for 25 years—including some commercial silk screen experience.  He has been working with Macintosh computers since their inception.  Lance's fascination with pinball spans over 40 years, but he didn't own a machine until 3 years ago, when his wife Julie gave him a Bally Frontier for Christmas.  The Frontier remains in the current lineup of six machines (others: BSD, Getaway, BoP, Firepower II, Blackout.)  All are for sale, he says, as space and finances will always keep his collection small.  He is always looking for the next project and is currently lusting for a Funhouse.  Other machines that have passed through the "manhole"  in the last few years: Jive Time (EM), Strange Science, Judge Dredd, and Dr. Dude.  Foster does all his own board repairs, playfield and backglass touchup, and playfield clear coating.  The forthcoming projects with CPR are exciting to Lance as a contribution to the pinball universe and another means of affording that next machine!

Years as a pinball fan: 40

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop

Active projects: 
FLIGHT 2000 playfield

 

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BOB DWOJEWSKI
Lehighton, PA, USA

Bob started as a video collector with games such as Tron, Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Gorf, Pacman, Centipede, Missile Command, Donkey Kong and Omega Race.  He has been playing pins since 1980, and been a hobbyist since his first game in 2004, which was Road Kings.  Bob's current pin collection includes DE Star Wars, Maverick, Star Trek the Next Generation, Haunted House, Black Hole, Earthshaker, Pinbot, Demolition Man, and Elvira and the Party Monsters.  It is true that once you get one - they multiply!  Bob does all his own board repairs.  He's an electrical Engineer by day and a pin/video junkie by night.  He enjoys bringing dead machines back to life.  Paddles!.....clear!!......we've got a pulse, sir

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 4

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3

Active projects: 
Earthshaker plastics set
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Earthshaker playfield

 
RONNIE DOUGAN
Bonaire, GA, USA

Ronnie been doing art like drawing & painting since he was a kid. He guesses he got all those art abilities from his dad. Ronnie got into computers in about 1998 and from there got hooked and started to make art on computers. First job he started to computer-based art was at an Air Force Base doing graphic arts, freehand work, and painting. He was around 19 years old when he started. Then after that Ron moved around other states working for the Air Force Base doing graphic arts. He always thought pinball machines were real cool - all the lights and souds they made, and especially the cool artwork that they had. Ron just bought his first machine (Elvira and the Party Monsters) about a year ago. He's gotten hooked and wants to own more. In his own words: "it brings me back in the 80's or something I guess"

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 1

Software of choice:  CorelDRAW X3

Completed / Produced projects:
 
ELVIRA and the Party Monsters plastics set
BLACK KNIGHT 2000 plastics set

Active projects: 
TBA

 

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KATHI BEADMAN
Almonte, Ontario, CANADA

Kathi has enjoyed playing pinball for many years, culminating in an addiction to High Speed in college. Her husband, Barry, an electrical engineer, became an avid hobbyist about 10 years ago, repairing, restoring and collecting pinball and video machines, and doing board repairs for himself and friends. They especially love entertaining with their High Speed and Getaway machines, and their collection previously included Twilight Zone, Blackout, Black Knight, Jungle Lord, Strikes and Spares, Big Indian, and Road Kings. Kathi has been using CorelDraw as a hobbyist and for a part-time home business since 1994. She was also co-operator of a small printing franchise with her father, doing all the graphics and pre-press for the business. Since vector reproduction is one of her favorite hobbies, she is enjoying her current work on Getaway plastics


Years as a pinball fan: 30

Software of choice:  CorelDRAW

Active projects: 
GETAWAY High Speed II   plastics set
 
 
QUENTIN FROST
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Quentin is a digital artist and has been working in the movie industry for the past 13 years.  During that time he has worked for every major visual effects house in Southern California.  Quentin is avid artist and loves  illustration, fine art, game and art design.  He discovered pinball through a book at a used bookstore, having lived through the video arcade era without ever playing a machine.  His first pinball was Fathom, bought sight unseen from New Jersey.  It arrived complete with real beach sand!  His collection grew to include (at one time) Black Knight, Bally Strikes and Spares, Voltan, Medusa, 2 Frontiers, Flash Gordon, Black Hole, Eight Ball, and Seawitch.  He loves restoring pins as much as playing them, and would have loved designing machines.   His interest started solely around the golden age of solid state, 1977-1982, but over time has broadened his interests to include later games as well, particularly those with well-designed artwork.


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 7

Software of choice:   Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2

Active projects: 
Stern METEOR plastics set
 

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JIM ASKEY
Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM

It all started around 1989 when Jim came home from school one day to find a Bally Mr and Mrs Pacman in the garage! Suffice to say the addiction started there and he's been collecting, restoring and repairing solid state games ever since. Now some 19 years later, Jim has restored over 50 games and in his private collection which includes Twilight Zone, Black Knight 2000 (Castle), Indiana Jones, Spiderman, and Revenge From Mars. He also have various project games to be restored which at the moment are Getaway and Back to the Future. Jim loves anything to do with solid state pinballs from about 1980 onwards. He has stepped up to take on a stranglehold on Black Knight 2000, and is diving into the graphics artwork for the backglass and immediately afterwards the playfield.


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 19

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator

Active projects: 
BLACK KNIGHT 2000 backglass
 

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MATTHEW CARPENTER
Montreal, Quebec, CANADA

Matthew had always dreamed of owning his own pinball from an early age ever since seeing one at his uncle’s house.  But it was not until 2003 when he met a co-worker and fellow collector that introduced him to the hobby and helped him acquire his first pinball.

"For me this hobby is the best of both worlds.  I get to take these things apart, tinker, restore and eventually play some great games.  I also get to take another passion of mine (art) and put it to good use in this hobby.   I get a real sense of satisfaction when I can bring something back from years of neglect, and have it look as good, or better than the day it left the factory.  The pinball community is filled with some great people and I’m thrilled about the opportunity to make a contribution to it. "

Matthew studied technical illustration and digital media creation in College.  When not repairing or playing a pinball, he spends his time developing 3D Animation and Rendering software for the Film and Games industry.


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 5

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop

Active projects: 
WHIRLWIND playfield
 

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MARK NASHOLD
Indianapolis, IN, USA

Mark started playing pinball during the late 70's. He and his friends would ride their bikes to the local bowling alley to play pinball, and later, video games.  Mark remembers thinking how cool the sounds and lights were, and later, amazing synthetic speech. One day they walked into the arcade to find a brand new pin being set up next to Alien Poker, Firepower, and Star Trek. It was a Black Knight, and Mark was amazed. Unfortunately, it was also the first pinball machine that they had ever encountered that cost 50 cents per play. In the end, Mark now has a special place in his heart for early 80's pins. Mark's interests shifted through the 80's. He met his wife and received his engineering degrees at Purdue University. It wasn't until the early 90's that his interest in pinball was re-sparked. At a Putt-Putt miniature golf and arcade, they had The Getaway, and The Addams Family. Mark was blown away all over again.

He naively purchased his first three pins in a package deal (sight unseen) a few years later. They were TAF, TZ, and FT.  This was the beginning of Mark's pinball education. He dove right in and ordered a NOS Fish Tales playfield from Pinball Resource for $400.00. The eventual swap came out great and Mark still own this pin today. He restored many pins and repaired dozens of boards over the next five years, but basically stopped actively collecting pins in late 2001 after the birth of his first daughter. Fast forward six years. He now has 2 daughters, and a son on the way. He has a little time to himself late at night and he reworked the workshop in the basement (his wife calls it the dungeon workshop) to work on pins again. He was excited to see what CPR was doing, and wanted to support the effort. Mark picked up 3 Black Knight projects over the next 6 months. He has been meticulously restoring every part on these machines, including three BK repro playfield swaps!  Mark feels playing a freshly restored pinball can still give him a magical feeling. That's what it is all about.

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 14

Software of choice:  CorelDRAW

Completed projects:
 
BABY PAC-MAN plastics set

Active projects: 
TBA

 

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DAVID EISNER   
Coquitlam, British Columbia, CANADA

David has been infected by the pinball virus for just about 10 years now.  He started a Company called Pinheadz which later became PinWest.  In the beginning, he found a need in the community to reproduce insert decals so he took it on to fill the void by making insert decals for many games.  The artwork needed to be vector drawn as most of the fonts used on the older playfields were no longer avaliable. David also tried his hand at a few plastics as well as target decals. He has a lot of experience using Corel Draw and Adobe but prefer the latter, mostly using Adobe Illustrator CS2.  He has enjoyed many games over the last 10 years but his favorite are the games he played as a youth in the small arcades of Ontario.  The games David most enjoyed were of the System 11 variety.  Cyclone being his all time favorite.  David currently owns a very nice Bally Xenon, NIB Interflip Dragon, Williams Gorgar, and Dracula. He is one of the founders of the VRPA ( Vancouver Regional Pinball Association ) to which he gives away a lot of tournament entry money.  David is looking forward to working with CPR in future playfield projects.


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 10

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator CS2

Completed projects:
 
CYCLONE playfield

Active projects: 
GORGAR playfield
 
LORI HANSEN   
San Diego, CA, USA

Lori has recently rekindled her love affair with pinball. As a pre-teen, growing up on the Jersey shore, she spent a good many hours pilfering quarters from her mother's purse and riding her bike to the boardwalk arcades. She moved to California in her early teens and after graduating high school, met the guy she'd marry. One of their favorite date activities was to play pinball at a local arcade...Cyclone being the machine they played most often. Then, they grew up. Arcades (and pinball) became a thing of the past for them.

Eighteen years of marriage and three beautiful children later, Lori's 
husband, Jeremy (an electrical engineer),  found a Cyclone machine for sale! Ahhh....memories. It is in bad need of refurbishing and repair and is one hobby they share, now. They hope to have their Cyclone machine as good as new soon. But wait! Two more pinball machines have found their way into their home, as well: Sharpshooter and Cybernaut. More projects for them to work on!

Lori is a stay-at-home mom and an amateur artist. She uses Adobe 
Photoshop and QuarkXpress to produce her kids' school newsletter on a Mac. She eagerly looks forward to working on (and completing) the 
plastics for Tales from the Crypt.

Years as a pinball fan: 25

Software of choice:  (Apple) Adobe Photoshop & Quark

Active projects: 
TALES FROM THE CRYPT plastics set
 

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WARREN MacCULLOCH
Coquitlam, British Columbia, CANADA
 

Warren first played pinball in the arcades of Calgary during the mid 70’s. He is a self-confessed drop target junkie, which may explain his soft spot for Gottlieb. At age 17 he bought his first game; Gottlieb’s “Jack in the Box” (lots of drops targets and pretty women!) and also joined the Pinball Owners Association which was then run by Gary Flower. In 1996 he began fulfilling his dream of having a basement full of pinball machines. Many games have come and gone but the ones that remain are from the late 70’s early 80’s with the exception of two WPC games.  Warren finds that a sentimental attachment to the games tends to keep them around. The current lineup includes Barracora, Cosmic Gunfight, Black Hole, and The Shadow, amongst others. He is an active member of the Vancouver Regional Pinball Association (had the inaugural meeting at his house) and has finished second in the VRPA league too many times to be funny. Warren loves hockey (Go Canucks!) which is why Bobby Orr’s Power Play is so special to him. It was also the second electronic pinball he played back in 1978, after Eight Ball. He has an NOS Power Play playfield that he wants to share with the pinball community – working with CPR, he says, "will help me do my bit” for pinball. He has 2 great kids (6 & 9) and a very understanding wife.  Warren runs in his spare time and is currently ranked the fastest 41 year old in Canada for 800 meters indoor (2008)!

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 32

Software of choice:  Photoshop, CorelDRAW

Active projects: 
BOBBY ORR POWER PLAY playfield

 
JEFF 'JETSY' MILLER
Tampa, FL, USA                      ^ link to Pinball Pimp ^

Jeff is no stranger to pinball. From the time he was 8 years old back in 1974, he can remember holding out his hand, begging his Mom for quarters to play the pinball machines at the Danners 5 & 10 store in Columbus, Indiana. At that age he remembers having to stand on the wooden stool just so he could get a good view of the playfield and to reach the flippers. Lights, Sounds, Moving Parts, Colors, Artwork... he was HOOKED! Whenever he saw a pinball machine, he would check to see if someone left a credit or coins in the return, searching for the elusive quarter. His first machine was a Bally Captain Fantastic with a NOS playfield and did a COMPLETE restore that took almost a year... everything was restored all the way down to polishing each and every part!

Now at the age of 41, he is a professional graphic artist and owns his own design firm with clients such as Samsung, SEARS, Best Buy, Staples, Sony, and the NFL. He has also done work for Bon Jovi, Dan Marino, LL Cool J, Alicia Keys and numerous other celebrities. Pinball restoration is his latest hobby and will most likely be something that he will be interested in until GAME OVER. If you take all the years of playing pinball, 25+ years of graphic art talent and put them all together... you get Jeff - The PINBALL PIMP!

He currently owns these FULLY restored machines: Captain Fantastic, Eight Ball, Six Million Dollar Man, Harlem Globetrotters, Royal Flush... along with an Atari ASTEROIDS machine!


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 35

Software of choice:  CorelDRAW, Illustrator, Photoshop

Completed projects:
 
Williams COMET plastics set (coming in 2008)

Active projects: 
Bobby Orr POWER PLAY plastics set
CFTBL Enhanced Speaker Panel (co-op with PinBits)
 
JIM SMITH
Phoenix, AZ, USA

Jim began playing pinball when he went to college in 1981. He bought his first game (Stern Galaxy) in 1987. That quickly expanded to four games, including 2 EMs. When he moved across the country to Arizona in 1992, he needed to slim down again to one machine. Jim had just the single game until 1999 when he began acquiring pinball games again and now has over twenty - ranging from pre-flippers to bingos, to new Sterns.

Jim is a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) professional and cartographer by trade, working for a local government agency. He approaches much of this pinball artwork creation as though he is mapping features on the surface of the earth, just on a much smaller scale. The solid linework, fills, and playfield features can be faithfully digitized using GIS which is also a vector environment. He also uses Photoshop quite a bit professionally for map finishing and effects, and it will also be used for the playfield artwork creation. Jim is excited to be able to contribute to the parts reproduction effort. Although he was aware of CPR and the Art Team program, he never really gave his participation much thought until meeting Kris B. from Tucson and experiencing his enthusiasm for making a Joust reproduction playfield.


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 21

Software of choice:  ESRI ArcGIS, Photoshop

Active projects: 
JOUST head-to-head angled double playfield
 

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JIM HECK
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA

Jim started playing pinball as a youth in the late 70's at a local bowling alley.  One of his earliest and most vivid pinball memories includes finding and reading 'Pinball Portfolio' in his school library.  He thought the pictures of Fireball looked cool.  Jim remembers the excitement of  playing Black Knight for the first time when it arrived in his town.  He played pinball on and off over the years, and even dreamed of owning a machine one day.  Then in 2004, he finally decided to take the plunge, and bought his first machine a NIB The Simpsons Pinball Party.  His pinball mania was such that his second machine, a Funhouse in need of restoration, arrived just before the Simpsons machine.  Many more machines quickly followed and today his collection consists of about 18 machines in a mix of both modern DMDs and classic solid state pins from the 80's.

Jim found more than a hobby in pinball, he found a true passion.  He enjoys everything about it, from fixing the machines to competitively
playing them, the pinball community, the shows, and most of all the
creative outlet.  In his day job, Jim is a Computer Software Engineer, feeding his other passion for computers and technology.  He is excited to combine the two passions, as he did when he taught himself TurboCAD to draw a MAME cabinet practically from scratch.  Jim eagerly anticipates his current goal of putting his perfectionist nature to task lovingly recreating the playfield art for Bally's Flash Gordon.  This is a machine he feels is the greatest single ball early SS machine ever
designed. 


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 4

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator

Active projects: 
FLASH GORDON double playfield
 

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KEVIN LIESNER
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Kevin never played a lot of pinball as a kid. He started out playing video games in the 80's, when he obtained the world record on Pengo (he is now listed as #2 and owns the game he won the world record on). In the mid-90s, he would occasionally play some pinball (especially Star Trek The Next Generation) on route. Fascinated with the physics of pinball, in 2007 Kevin was surprised to win his first (and currently only) pinball machine (STTNG) on E-Bay, after which he had to drive 7 hours to pick it up! After 6 months of playing, he attended his first pinball show (Midwest Gaming Classic) and came in 4th place in the B division! When not playing/working on pinball, Kevin can be found doing desktop publishing, playing piano and keyboard for their church's worship team, or working as a Technology Consultant.

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 1

Software of choice:  Adobe Creative Suite CS3

Active projects: 
NO GOOD GOFERS plastics set
 

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CAMERON JENSEN
Kaysville, Utah, USA

EDWARD CHEUNG         www.edcheung.com
Baltimore, Maryland, USA


Cameron has been playing pinball since the 70’s, has collected arcades for years and has been a pinball hobbyist/collector for the last 3 years. He has about 9 pins in his current lineup. Cameron is a Software Engineer by trade and owns several businesses that are in the graphics arts field. He has worked professionally with Photoshop, CorelDRAW, and Illustrator beginning 1993. Once he finishes his current project, he hopes to work on Sorcerer and Comet Playfields as well as the rest of the Space Shuttle stuff.

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 3

Software of choice:  Illustrator & Photoshop CS2


Ed works for NASA on the Hubble Space Telescope and has several of his designs currently flying in space.  When he decided he wanted to get a pinball machine, he naturally chose Space Shuttle as his first one.  This pin even has a graphic of Hubble on the playfield.  In addition to various pinball graphics projects, Ed has also developed a Williams CPU board tester, and has been successful in replicating the WPC CPU and A/V boards on an FPGA.  This latter project is intended to replace the ASICs on these boards with modern substitutes.


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 3

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator & VHDL

Past Projects:  Space Shuttle translite, Space Shuttle overlay, WPC CPU and DCS Audio on one FPGA.



This TEAM's Active project: 
SPACE SHUTTLE playfield
SPACE SHUTTLE backglass

 

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DOCPINBALL - (DAVID FIX)
Buffalo, New York, USA

First let's reveal who DocPinball is. His name is David Fix and this guy has been around pinball for some time. David has been playing pinball since the late 70's. The first game that sucked him in was PORKERINO. He remembers playing that game and winning 8 free games on the first time he played it.  He started to collect pinball machines when he could not find any machines in his town to play. David now has 12 pins in his personal collection. David is pinball historian and knows a ton about the timeline of the industry. Back in the 90's David worked in the Newspaper business as head graphic artist. David is now a freelance graphic arts consultant. When working for the paper he was the guy that implemented change and pushed them to switch from pasted-up work that was shot on film to make plates for printing - and to change over to laying it out by computer and then sent to a laser to cut the film for plate making. David also remembers cutting rubylift when he was going to school for graphic art, and also has done silk screening. He has worked professionally with Photoshop, CorelDraw, and Illustrator and a load of other programs to many to list beginning in 1990. His current project is a PARAGON Backglass and MARS GOD OF WAR backglass, with some ideas on a few playfields. David is also considering doing backglasses that were done originally as translites - to make actual glass versions.  David holds a unique spot on the Art Team as our CMYK project expert.

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 11

Software of choice:  CorelDRAW 12

Active projects: 
PARAGON backglass
MARS GOD OF WAR backglass
 
REBECCA JOHNSON
Senoia, Georgia, USA

Rebecca is a fairly recent convert to the world of pinball, after a rabid co-worker/friend relentlessly sucked her into the hobby.  She currently has RFM and Blackout in her collection, and is working on creating her own custom re-themed pinball machine.  By day (and sometimes late into the night), Rebecca is a software engineer, but her true love is art, both in traditional and digital media.  She has been doing in-house and freelance graphic design since 1993, using CorelDRAW, Photoshop and Illustrator.  She is excited for the opportunity to be able to help restore the artwork for some great machines.

Years as a pinball hobbyist: 2

Software of choice:  Adobe Creative Suite CS2 & CS3

Active projects: 
The Machine BRIDE OF PINBOT Plastics Set
 

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MATTHEW FARMER
Sarnia, Ontario, CANADA

Matt has been in the coin-op hobby since 2005 with his first purchase of Whitewater.  He's a graduate of computer animation from Sheridan College and currently works as a graphic artist in his hometown of Sarnia. Matt always dreamed since he was a kid that he would one day own one of these amazing machines. Matt always was marveled by the little world that lived inside the box. With his first machine he instantly tore it apart and started the daunting restoration process. (Thanks given to Clay Harrell)  Matt has had the addiction ever since. His love for these working pieces of art eventually led him to finding out about CPR.  Matt looks forward to designing more artwork so others can enjoy bringing their games back to glory.  Matt is fluent in all Adobe software and Alias Maya and is hoping to enter the video game field soon. Matt recently got married to his high school sweet heart of 7 years, after a long time away at college. Matt owns WW, DM, CFTBL, Sinbad, Laserball and Prospector by Sonic (Spain).


Years as a pinball hobbyist: 3

Software of choice:  Adobe CS, Alias Maya

Completed projects: 
SPACE SHUTTLE Plastics Set

Active projects: 
GORGAR plastics set
 

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STUART WRIGHT
Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Stuart owns & operates GENYSIS, a full service Graphic Design Studio / Advertising Agency which he started 18 years ago. He has been a professional graphic designer for over 25 years — and has won several national packaging design awards for clients including Fender Musical Instruments.  He has been a collector of high quality Pins for over 15 years and currently has 46 pins in his personal collection. Stuart just finished building the ultimate game room emporium as a new home for his pins, the latest of which is Big Bang Bar.  He has already restored his KISS and Centaur pins from ground up and is in the process of restoring Eight Ball Deluxe, Xenon, Sexy Girl and Creature from the Black Lagoon.  Stuart is very excited to join the CPR Art Team and give back to the pinball community by combining his two favorite passions — Pinball & Graphics.  He is looking forward to working on several ‘complete packages’ of plastics, playfields & backglasses as a means for other collectors to restore their pins from top to bottom.

Years as a Pinball Fan: 37
Years as a Collector: 15

Software of Choice:  CorelDraw, Photoshop, QuarkXpress

Active Projects: 
Bad Cats Playfield, Plastics set
Rolling Stones Playfield, Plastics set, and Backglass

Bally Star Trek Playfield, Plastics set, and Backglass

Bride of Pinbot
Playfield
Bugs Bunny Birthday Ball Playfield, Plastics

 

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SAM WONG
Calgary, Alberta, CANADA

Sam has played pinball since his earliest childhood memories starting from 70's EM's to 90's DMD's.  It wasn't until not too long ago that he bought his first pin (High Speed) and he's up to six pins and counting.  The chance to tinker and work on electronic and mechanical aspects of the pins are thoroughly satisfying and relaxing.  It's a fantastic addition to the family home and also uncommon in Canada nowadays.  Working as a software consultant and working on computers every day, the ability to contribute to the pinball community in this way is a natural fit.


Years as a pinball fan: 30

Software of choice:  Adobe Illustrator

Active projects: 
TAXI playfield
FISH TALES plastics set
TOTAN plastics set
 


CPR's Art
Team
is always willing to accept new members
Graphically Skilled Pinball Hobbyists
or
Graphics Arts Amateurs or Professionals


CONTACT US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED