CLASSIC PLAYFIELD REPRODUCTIONS

THE PINBALL HOBBYISTS CONTRIBUTING ARTWORK FROM AROUND THE WORLD

click to enlarge	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 Completed Artwork: BAD CATS Playfield, Plastics set EIGHT BALL DELUXE Plastics set SEXY GIRL Playfield, Plastics set ORBITOR 1 Plastics set SWORDS OF FURY Plastics set DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Plastics set SILVERBALL MANIA Playfield, Backglass DEFENDER Plastics set PINBOT Playfield Active Artwork:* FUNHOUSE Plastics HURRICANE Plastics

click to enlarge	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: 4 Software of choice: Adobe CS, Alias Maya Completed Artwork: SPACE SHUTTLE Plastics Set GORGAR Plastics Set STRIKES & SPARES plastics set LIGHTNING plastics set MATA HARI plastics set NITRO GROUNDSHAKER plastics set BLACKOUT plastics set SPACE MISSION plastics Active Artwork: DINER playfield SOLAR CITY backglass JOKER POKER backglass

click to enlarge	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. Mike and his brother were the brainchilds of the 'LOST VEGAS' theme, which blew away all of the original theming ideas that CPR had on the table for their 2010 conversion kit. Years as a pinball hobbyist: 2 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator CS3 Completed Artwork: 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, Diner plastics set, Fathom plastics set, SeaWitch plastics set, PLAYBOY playfield, POLICE FORCE plastics Active Artwork: Bally STAR TREK playfield LOST VEGAS creator & writer (comic & theming)

click to enlarge	SCOTT CHARLES Allentown, PA, USA Scott grew up in the 70s and at the age of 8 insisted on sneaking to the mall to play pinball. Around the age of 12 he had a dream of buying a Paragon machine from a local Space Port for $425 and got a part time job to save money for this. Sadly, temptation of other teenage wants and needs scuttled this dream for another 10 years. Taking a year off after high school before college enabled Scott to purchase his first machine, a Stern Meteor, which he kept in his 10x10 dorm room. During second semester, he purchased a Flash Gordon and a Fathom to go with it. It was a rather large surprise to his parents upon his return home that summer break with 3 machines instead of 1. 3 became 5, 5 became 10, 10 became 13..... all in a 10x10 room in his parents' house. After moving out most of the machines were put into storage for a couple of years, and pinball was put on the back burner. Around 2000 Scott discovered the internet newsgroup rec.games.pinball, and deciding to do something with all the machines vs. keeping them in storage, along with a nice open basement enabled him to rekindle the pinterest. 13 became 16, 16 became 20, 20 became 30, 30 became 42. Now, half were in a storage shed and the other half were set up. A subsequent move to a new house caused a downsizing from 42 to 30. After wading through 21 out of 30 projects, Scott experienced a 'galactic zoo coincidence day' when all 32 (at the time) of his machines were working 100 percent..... for exactly one day. He hosts an annual party during the Allentown Pinball Wizards' convention and has played host to pinball leagues and tournaments. Machines of the late 70s and early 80s remain his favorites, but his collection includes machines from 1956 to 1995, with the bulk of machines being 80s era, with classic Sterns being a particular favorite. A 6502 assembly hacker from way back, Scott applied that hazy knowledge to classic Stern architecture and now programs the 6800 on that platform to make the machines do his bidding (usually!) Years as a pinball hobbyist: 21 Software of choice: 6800 Assembler, Photoshop Active projects: LOST VEGAS software & programming LOST VEGAS technical documentation

	STEPHANIE YOUNG New Brunswick, 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. 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: 6 Software of choice: CorelDRAW X4 Completed Artwork: F2K plastics, Xenon plastics, BK plastics, LW plastics, BR plastics, WCS94 plastics, PinBot plastics, PinBot mini-playfield, FG plastics, Paragon plastics, Mermaid playfield, F2K backglass, BR backglass, Xenon playfield, Bride of PinBot mini-playfield Stephanie is a native to both Halifax and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is a first year student at NSCAD University, planning to do her major in film and minor in drawing. Through a NSCADU newsletter, she found out about CPR, and couldn't wait to see if she could help out with any of the projects. She has been in love with comic books ever since she was a little kid when she got her first X-Men toy at a McDonald's restaurant. Over the years, she has read many different comic books, but will always remain loyal to X-Men. Through 15 or so years of reading comics, and thanks to an elementary school art teacher, she began to develop a love for drawing. Her style is self-described as bold, dark and graphic, in every sense of those words. Stephanie has had a little bit of experience with Photoshop, but nothing too technical. She's not much of a pinball hobbyist, but she's really excited to help CPR with any upcoming projects in any way possible. Years as a pinball hobbyist: none Software of choice: Adobe Photoshop, pen and paper This TEAM's Active project: LOST VEGAS click here for info CPR's 5th Anniversary 2010 ORIGINAL CONVERSION KIT

	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: 36 Software of choice: CorelDRAW Completed Artwork: Flash Gordon plastics set F-14 TOMCAT plastics set MEDUSA plastics set VIKING plastics set

click to enlarge	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: 2 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator CS3 Completed Artwork: CYCLONE plastics set Active Artwork: BREAKSHOT translite-into-backglass

click to enlarge SEAWITCH BACKGLASS Under Construction	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: 10 Software of choice: (Apple) Freehand, Photoshop, Quark XPress Completed Artwork: High Speed plastics set NINE BALL plastics set Active Artwork: Stern SEAWITCH playfield, backglass Stern NINE BALL playfield, backglass Stern CATACOMB plastics set

	LANCE FOSTER Bridgewater, VA, USA Lance has a BFA in art and has been a graphic designer for 30 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 5 years ago. Sixteen machines have now passed through the "manhole" (garage) and recently he has made a restoration shop in the back yard. He enjoys all aspects of pinball restoration. During the course of the F2K project, he refurbished and sold: Indy 500, Whirlwind, World Cup Soccer. The Aadams Family, Funhouse, The Machine: Bride of Pinbot, Elvira and the Party Monsters, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Barracora, and Andromeda are the current lineup. Years as a pinball fan: 40 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop Completed Artwork: FLIGHT 2000 playfield

click to enlarge	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: 5 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3 Active Artwork: EARTHSHAKER plastics set EARTHSHAKER playfield

click to enlarge	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: 6 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop Active Artwork: WHIRLWIND playfield

click to enlarge DAVID's COMPLETED CYCLONE ARTWORK	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: 11 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator CS2 Completed Artwork: CYCLONE playfield Bally POWER PLAY playfield (with Warren MacCulloch) Active Artwork: GORGAR playfield

click to enlarge	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: 33 Software of choice: Photoshop, CorelDRAW Completed Artwork: Bally POWER PLAY playfield (with David Eisner)

	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 Artwork: Williams COMET plastics set Bally POWER PLAY plastics set Active Artwork: TBA

	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: 22 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator CS3 Completed Artwork: FIREPOWER plastics set FIREPOWER playfield JOUST head-to-head angled double playfield Active Artwork: GALAXY plastics set

click to enlarge FLASH GORDON latest near-final sample	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: 5 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator Active Artwork: FLASH GORDON double playfield MEDUSA playfield

click to enlarge	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: 2 Software of choice: Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Active Artwork: JURASSIC PARK plastics set

click to enlarge click to enlarge	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: 4 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: 4 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 Completed Artwork: SPACE SHUTTLE playfield SPACE SHUTTLE backglass

Steve Ritchie (left), David Fix (right) click to enlarge	DOC PINBALL - (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: 12 Software of choice: CorelDRAW 12 Active Artwork: PARAGON backglass MARS GOD OF WAR backglass

click to enlarge	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: 31 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator Active Artwork: TAXI playfield FISH TALES plastics set

TOTAN latest artwork-in-progress sample	NICK POSSEDI San Diego, CA, USA Nick grew up in the pinball capital of Chicago, and as a preteen spent many winter nights at the local arcades. Mostly with his brother who preferred to play Black Knight. He would be next to him shooting away on Playboy or whatever it was on the other side of Black Knight that did not have boobs. Those were my first experiences. High school proved to be void of all pinball activity. Nick was busy playing basketball and working at a local appliance store. After graduating college in 1989 with a degree in graphic arts, he entered the world of commercial printing as a prepress technician. The print shop Nick worked at in Downers Grove, IL was one of the very few that could print on plastic sheets. It was there that Nick worked on translites for Data East and Williams pins. He remembers those early Macs being tasked quite heavily by the large translite files. That would be his last brush with pinball until a few years ago. A high school friend purchased his first pin and kind of "pulled him back in" the world of pinball. His friend was, in fact, the one that pointed him toward CPR and their artist program. Though Nick doesn't own any titles right now, he does plan to buy and refurbish a TOTAN. Hopefully sometime in 2009. Years as a pinball hobbyist: 2 Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator Active Artwork: TALES OF THE ARABIAN KNIGHTS playfield

Click here to visit Ray Lockhart's iFreelance site	RAY LOCKHART Tonawanda, NY, USA For over forty years Ray has enjoyed a productive career in the field of commercial art as a designer, art director, illustrator, and in the fine arts field as a watercolorist and instructor. Introduced to our little mission here in the pinball community by David Fix, Ray is going to use his vast experience to bring forth hopefully several classic backglasses. Ray's formative years were spent in a small fishing village on the western shore of Lake Michigan. That experience deeply ingrained in him a love of the sea, ships, lighthouses, quaint fishing villages, and their environs. These come to life in many of his watercolors. In subsequent years he was profoundly influenced by the great magazine illustrators of the 40’s and 50’s, and so a lifelong course in the field of commercial art was fixed. He also gained experience in agencies and studios over the years. You will find his illustrations arresting and impactful, and what an eye for detail. Please click the link to his iFreelance site and take a look at his work. Ray's reproduction art for backglasses will involve the amazing tradition of hand cutting rubylith film along with hand sketching. The exact way your original backglasses were prepared for printing. Years as a pinball hobbyist: none Methods of choice: Illustration, Painting, Rubylith film Completed Artwork: Gottlieb's TARGET ALPHA backglass Active Artwork: EARTHSHAKER backglass

	SCOTT GOINGS Commerce Township, Michigan, USA MIKE MILLER Russiaville, Indiana, USA Scott: Starting playing pinball in the early 70s. The first game he played was Gottlieb Scuba. Played through the end of college and resumed when he purchased a Gottlieb Black Hole in 1998. Collection currently includes Fire Power, Xenon, Black Knight, Centaur, Black Hole, Indy 500, The Addam’s Family, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Safe Cracker and Corvette. Favorite generation of machine is early 80s solid state. Years as a pinball hobbyist: 11 Software of choice: CorelDRAW X4 Mike: He's played pinball since the early '70's through college until games were difficult to find on route. Returned to playing in 1997 when he purchased his first pinball machine: Aladdin's Castle. Collection currently includes Aladdin's Castle, Gorgar, Black Knight, Centaur, Space Invaders, Scorpion, Star Trek, Xenon, Solar Fire, Alien Poker and Grand Lizard. Enjoys playing, repairing and restoring all vintages of pinball machines, although his favorites are the early solid state ones. Mike has been a Mechanical Engineer in the automotive industry for over 27 years. Years as a pinball hobbyist: 12 Software of choice: CorelDRAW X4 This TEAM's Completed Artwork: SOLAR FIRE backglass

	HENRIK WÄNGERSTEDT Borås, SWEDEN Henrik first noticed pinball as a kid (in the late 70s) and the whole appearance of pinball games attracted him more than the video games. Back then he could just stand and look at them whenever he got the chance. Later, in the early 90s Henrik got into playing games on a more frequent basis and pretty much all the money he could spare went into games such as Tales from the Crypt, World Cup Soccer, and many more. Around 1995 he completely lost contact with pinball and didn't pick it up until 2005 when he got in contact (much because of his colleague Christian Holmsten) with the Swedish pinball community. Since then Henrik started collecting games and currently owns about 10 games. He's also working with the local pinball community with Christian Holmsten arranging monthly and annual tournaments. Years as a pinball hobbyist: 10+ years Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator Active Artwork: FLASH plastics set THE MACHINE Bride of PinBot plastics set

	CHRISTIAN HOLMSTEN Borås, SWEDEN As a child of the early 80’s Christian got hooked on video games and totally missed out on the pinball thing and it took over 20 years until he got set straight. This happened when he was told by his boss to acquire a pinball game for the employees and after a few hours surfing the Internet an Elvira and the Party Monsters was on its way. When leaving that job and sadly Elvira too, the idea of a pinball machine, or maybe two, of his own crossed his mind. Fortunately a guy at the new job, Henrik Wängerstedt, encouraged that idea and quickly a Judge Dredd was purchased in may 2005 - followed by his very own Elvira. Unfortunately Christian never takes on new hobbies half-hearted - which has resulted in a pinball collection of almost 100 machines (and counting), an active engagement in the Swedish pinball community and a never ending mission to awake pinballers across the country. Years as a pinball hobbyist: 4 years Software of choice: Macromedia Freehand Active Artwork: JOKERZ! plastics set BARRACORA plastics set GETAWAY plastics set

	BRUCE BRIGHAM Grey Highlands, Ontario, CANADA Bruce is a graphic artist and photographer with over 20 years of experience. He has been a pinball fan since the age of eight. His step-father was an operator, and occasionally took Bruce on his rounds. Pinball has always been around him and he has owned many machines over the years, purchasing his first pinball, a Williams Fan-Tas-Tic, when he was 12. Bruce currently owns a Williams Flash, a 1969 Bally On-Beam, and a 1967 Bally Rocket III and will soon be acquiring a 1968 Bally Mini Zag . Originally trained in the fine arts, he is always looking for a challenge to stimulate his creative skills. Bruce currently works on a Mac using Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Years as a pinball fan: 34 years Software of choice: Adobe Illustrator Active Artwork: STRIKES & SPARES backglass