Rumours of Death

Colonel Davies salutes the fallen

With the news of the sad passing of Paul Darrow, who featured as the character Avon in BBC TV series, Blakes 7, modelmaker Kevin Davies felt it would be appropriate to show the items he has created from the show.

ORAC

Kevin used th same techniques and materials as the BBC props department to create these studio grade renditions of pivotal props from the series. Some of the production processes were quite challenging, especially working with the heavy perspex on some of the items. ORAC has a full featured light show and as I remmber, can be synced with an iPod to play soundbites from the show!

FEDERATION TROOPER HELMET AND RIFLE

Some of the materials used in the show were household or everyday materials, but Kevin found some parts a lot more difficult to source than others.

SCORPIO BRACELET

Such was the attention to detail that Kevin lavished on the props, that he went to great lengths to ensure accuracy, including completely rebuilding the Liberator Bracelet to account for a small chamfer missing on the first draft, on the orange perspex button!

LIBERATOR TELEPORT BRACELET

One of Kevin's props - the Liberator sidearm, appeared on BBC's Pebble Mill at One show, wielded by Roj Blake himself and has the rather dubious provenance of being poked up the stars left nostril!

SCORPIO CLIPGUN

TELEPORT CONTROL PANEL

COMMUNICATION CONSOLE