this week i have mostly been drawing airships

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silent running bot

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fab new recordings by the sea apes, all for free !

http://soundcloud.com/seaapes/sets/the-sea-apes/ 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.

big daddy roth stylee citroen 2cv, for those of us in europe with smaller capacity engines. two cylinders, 600cc of raw power. Click for bigger (104 kb)

a little more work and better pictures

Click for bigger (75 kb) Click for bigger (58 kb) Click for bigger (55 kb) tired and miserable from work, shit you have to go through to earn a bit, and i mean a bit, of money now days, good luck to steve, who got notice of redundancy last week, you're gonna need it mate. on the upside filming for our band video tomorrow, should be good fun we haven't played together in the same room for quite a while.

scoot rideout

first trial of the scooter cam, scooter cam will be featured in my next production, a video for the band. been busy with recording for a few weeks now, the band sounds awesome, three possibly four tracks, a cd will be available

paint !

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going cross eyed

fourteen led lights and it still isn't enough, there has been progress on the space scooter in the lighting department the tiresome business of soldering reclaimed led's is a frustrating and fiddly task, the engines are taking shape and once ive finished the wiring the top coat and the chrome can go on.

live set recordings

a bunch of songs recorded at our first gig http://soundcloud.com/seaapes/sets/live-at-the-fern/

recorded the rehearsal today,

me on djembe, debs on bass and vocals, wease on drums steve on guitar, and superstar jimmi on the eukaleli.
I've also been busy on the robots and saucers, will post something up soon.

new band new guitar

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check this out, got it a few days ago, interesting take on the vox phantom, made by eko who made phantoms in the sixtees.great guitar, with 3 mini humbuckers in it, might go for a single coil in the bridge at some point also been asked to join a band, a punk/ ska/dub/rock outfit formerly known as big stone culture.
couple of videos of the band on my youtube if you would like to check em out.


http://soundcloud.com/bigstoneculture/tracks?page=2

the lambretta from nowhere

oh no more scooters !
given to me by an old friend who could not face seeing it rot in a bramble bush in Corfu.
its a lambretta 125 series 2 li, circa 59-63.
it looks much worse than it is the frame is solid and its just about complete.
its just the thing ive been looking for, but the prices these things are going for, even in this condition are simply beyond silly.









well there you have it, heres some pics of a 1966 vespa super i restored last year i hope it turns out half as nice.
note the extra bling ! white walls chrome hubcaps and an outrageous flash gordon rocket ship tailpipe.



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after a long break

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haven't made a proper blog post in ages, i finally got a bit of time to work on the scoot.
the engine pods were an absolute pain to get right, but im finally happy with the results.
they are hollow with mesh grilles on the front, i hope to have some sort of lighting inside them.

two fruits one glass

busy weekend

spent a few hours on this the weekend, the mess i made is phenomenal, and i still havent tidied up.
the back light is made from a disposable lighter, and the radiator is bits of an old umbrella.

getting to the shiny stuff

more space monkey lambretta

did the grips, seat and floor boards, also a nice looking headlamp, but its not in the pics.

space monkey scooter project

hi folks its been ages since my last post, work getting in the way blah blah blah !
here are some pics of my latest build.
it started life in one of my space monkey cartoons i am making 12" animatable model of it with a space monkey stop mo puppet.

the b3ta animated album cover competition

heres mine more over on b3ta.com

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/animatedalbums/popular/

may contain nuts

bizarre happenings

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bizare magazine have asked me to contribute a little somthing for the geek special
watch this space.

dr Whens bash

i was tempted out of semi retirement to do a dj set at dr whens annual birthday bash on saturday, this is third year running, glamourous affairs and they are always good rollicking fun.
i did a varied set of sixties garage rock, freak beat, ska, northern soul and some low down dirty funky shit.
had a good chat to Tod mc Tod there too, we may be exploding some stuff once he gets his high speed camera rig sorted.
a good time was had by all and i awoke the next day with a monumental hangover and a big smile on my face.
looking forward to next years already.


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Dr Agamemnon When and friend.
linky to photos in the b3ta bash pool
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xsgerry/sets/72157623373783192/detail/

pink n chrome

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pink n chrome lots of lovley chrome, the bare metal foil bought from a local model shop is the mutts nuts, dead easy to apply but you need to have a supply of realy sharp blades to cut the stuff.
just cut a peice a little bigger than you need cover the area, burnish into the corners and polish with an old bit of t shirt.
then its just a case of trimming and lifting off the exess with a sharp blade.

dj'ing at dr whens birthday bash

dusting off the scratchy old 45s in preperation for my good friend dr when's birthday bash.
he knows how to throw a good party, i will post up a few pics after the event.

adding the detail

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most of the electical and structural work is done now.
my depressing lousy job is taking up waaaaay to much time.