September 2012:  John Popadiuk contacted us to clear coat some test panels and a Magic Girl whitewood playfield.  HSA was located about 40 miles away from Zidware so this made it easy to move parts around.  We did some additional work for him in 2013 and then everything stopped when Zidware started to have financial issues.  In 2014, HSA moved from IL to Arkansas.

The project was picked up by American Pinball in 2015 and we got the next batch of playfields in January 2016.  We were hesitant to start working on the Magic Girl project again due to the issues with Zidware but American Pinball promised build all 20+ games to take care of the Magic Girl customers.  The second batch of 25 Magic Girl playfields came in July 27, 2016.  We were expecting this batch of playfields to be screen printed but they were UV digital printed.  Unlike the January batch, these playfields were printed on thicker 15mm wood.  Also, unlike the January batch of playfields, someone changed the type of wood primer to an oil base sealer and the 25 playfields were no longer compatible to our acrylic urethane automotive clear coat.  All playfields (25) were sent back to American Pinball.  As of date (Aug 2016) we have not done any additional work for American Pinball, mainly due to the physical distance from them in Chicagoland to us in Arkansas.   On a side note, I will say that my dealings with American Pinball was pleasant and I wish this new pinball company well.  Finally all Magic Girl owners will be done with this Zidware mess.