My old friend dean Clewes has some interesting old things, he recently acquired this old leather suitcase, inside there is an engraved brass plate which reads.
Presented to tho,s f dodd esquire by the Manchester cycle & motor trades party, Gordon Bennet race, July 4th 1903.
Astonishingly there is a film of the event, moving pictures had not long been invented or for that matter the motor car.
at the time of the race, there were no more than 400 cars in the whole of Ireland, most of the locals had never seen one before.
This battered old leather case is a relic from one of the very earliest international car races, the grand prix of a hundred years past.
hair raising speeds of 50mph were recorded but the cars were piloted through the villages, by boys on bicycles to avoid accidents.
I suspect not many people know exactly why, but his name still crops up regularly in England, particularly the south, To proclaim GORDON BENNET ! usually means youve had some sort of unexpected surprise, and not necessarily a nice one.
My old friend Steve Slater can make it so.
Beautify crafted 1/72 scale models with custom decals and paint, finished to a very high standard
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here's one he made for me a few years ago.
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and heres one he made for his brother in law Dave, who is also the photographer.
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and one for the trekies work in progress.
you can contact steve, through me if you fancy one of your own, the skies the limit.
prices start around £60.
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a bunch of stuff we recorded over the summer, gonna try and lash some video together at some point but life just keeps getting in the way.
heres an old animated gif to keep you entertained.
general sort of artist sculptor and animator of things.
in the past i have worked in publishing/advertising,as a graphic designer.
i created a hell of a lot of noise, set fire and blown up stuff in the name of art with a multimedia performance collective called blissbody.
i have also made a good many strange theatrical props puppets and automata.
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here's one he made for me a few years ago.
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and heres one he made for his brother in law Dave, who is also the photographer.
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and one for the trekies work in progress.
you can contact steve, through me if you fancy one of your own, the skies the limit.
prices start around £60.
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great shame they never really caught on, planning on building one 1/72nd scale.
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just completed this hellishly complicated paper model, get it here, check out his other stuff its awesome.
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