i love my new job

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running a lovley little nightclub in birmingham , life is good.

voodoo tiki lounge garage fez monkey

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gouache on canvas board 10x12

robots and space frogs

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Paint on canvas


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gouache on paper


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paint on canvas

posh flamingo

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i think there is a series in the making ,
bring forth the posh frogs

adventures of magnet

save me

flying saucers r2 barbecue and a secret hot rod project

busy in the workshop r2 barbecue flying saucer lamp and a hotrod 

been working on a few scoots lately, the bottom one is mine after a full engine strip and rebuild and a bare metal paint job, the blue one belongs to a customer i made few trick parts including a spotlight switch housing and an inline twostroke can holder. didn't do anything to the top one but it was just too pretty to leave out

volkswagen samba log burner

couple of pics of my latest creation a patio log burner made from a  recycled gas cylinder

lovely ford pop given to my freind, who then gave it to his dad.

rivet count rising

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Oh no flying saucers in the backyard again

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nearly a meter across a work in progress  , this ones been hanging about in my workshop since last summer dusted it off and did some work on it today, beating out the dome and cutting the windows out.
all aluminium so far trying to keep it that way.

couple of new recycled stoves

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the stove made for my yurt, it has front opening hatch with  a window and a separate door underneath for getting rid of the ash,  the handles are turned from  ashwood i cut from the garden last year, the main body is made up of three different recycled  gas cylinders, and the porthole is fashioned from a drum kit ride cymbal. the heat this generates  is tremendous the body can get cherry red if you open up the butterfly valve in the bottom door.

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sauna stove made from recycled gas cylinders with multi butterfly air intakes , still needs some sauna rocks in the basket, its as hot as hell in there when this thing gets going. 

malfunction

not posted for aaaaages due to moving house, breaking my camera, looking for work all kinds of things .
normal service will be resumed as soon as possible lots of stuff being done as we speak.

here is a special treat for anybody who can still be bothered to read this rubbish.
an old internet chum of mine Cyriac Harris makes wonderful animations, i can honestly say there is nobody quite like him, his style is unmistakable and totally original.
heres his latest work.

a fantastic all day mod event in birmingham

filmed back in may, a brilliant all day event in Birmingham.celebrating mod culture, i appear in this twice very briefly thank god.

hard at work getting ready for a mini exhibition

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did loads of work on this today, a fly screen spot lights, mirrors and a host of details and wiring.

the public art gallery in my home town of west bromwich are hosting an exhibition of my stuff, no details yet as to when but its happening soon.

sea apes, surf

quickly lashed together a video for one of our songs , a few scenes at the end never seen before

Ever fancied your own personal DC3,

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 Click for bigger (464 kb) here's one he made for me a few years ago. Click for bigger (495 kb) and heres one he made for his brother in law Dave, who is also the photographer. Click for bigger (106 kb) 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.

this week i have mostly been drawing airships

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silent running bot

Click for bigger (219 kb) just completed this hellishly complicated paper model, get it here, check out his other stuff its awesome. uhu02.way-nifty.com/die_eule_der_minerva/033.html