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The latest news in recent weeks, is that I have been working on projects
with Hothouse models. This was for a BBC program, ‘Waking the Dead’
and again for the BBC, a program called ‘Silent Witness’. Both
requiring bodies. There were also prosthetic wounds made for the ‘Silent Witness’ job, consisting mostly of gelatine wounds and autopsy scars.

These jobs were both well received, as jobs well done.

Then, came a job from Radford Wallis. The brief ….. “Can you make 6 figures in as many days?” (their previous contractor had found the time scale too short). This is one of those impossible challenges, that I just couldn’t resist!
These 6 figures had to be scaled up from inch high plastic figures, (the kind you find in architectural models). to 5’11”. All having the same head, though different poses. They were christened “Bob” by the Radford Wallis team, and as I said earlier, it was such a cool idea, that I couldn‘t resist it. So how do you make 6 figures in 6 days?
Well, with the help from five sculptors, myself and two good technicians, that’s how we did it.

       
   
       
   
 
The reason for the rush, was that Radford Wallis had booked a team of cameramen, to TAKE THE FIGURES TO BE FILMED ON VARIOUS LOCATIONS, AROUND LONDON, INCLUDING THE underground and Buckingham Palace. As you can see, these are not lifecast‘s, but polystyrene sculpts. A List of the team’s credits, will be posted, as soon as the location photographs arrive. Suffice to say, we delivered on time, in-fact they were picked up at six in the morning on the 6th day. Just in time to get myself down on location, for a day on “Silent Witness”.
 
 
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