A LOOK AT SMALLSPACE 9

 Here's a few more photos from Smallspace 9, that took place last Sunday in the village of Hanslope, Bucks.

There was plenty of excellent models on display and just six hours to capture as many images of them as I could, as well as meet up and chat with old friends and make a few new ones too!

There was also some special guests from the special effects industry:

Steve Begg brought a couple of original props: A spacecraft from Space Precinct, and a truck from Casino Royale.

Lee Stringer brought along a model of the Narcissus from Alien.

Here's a snapshot of what each guest has worked on:

Steve Begg, who started out on Terrahawks, and has gone on to work on several James Bond films, Aliens, Batman, Lost in Space, and Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Chrissie Overs, who's worked on Aliens, Flash Gordon, Dune, Goldeneye, Lost in Space, Prometheus, and Krull.

Lee Stringer, who's worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Iron Sky, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, The New Captain Scarlet, and Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future.

Chris Trice, who's worked on Doctor Who, Wizards vs Aliens, Red Dwarf, Casino Royale, The Martian, Lost in Space, Aliens vs Predator, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

From left to right: Steve Begg; Chris Trice; Chrissie Overs

From left to right: Lee Stringer; Chrissie Overs; Steve Begg

A large impressive,and highly detailed model of a Rebel Dreadnought, built and brought along by Gary and Jan of Model Behaviour model store won an award for best model on display.

It spite of still recovering from a major operation, mega modeller, Mamas Pitsillis brought along his huge Skydiver model, as well as his studio scale Markers Universal transporter complete with an  emerging Shadomobile. Stingray and one of Titan's Mechanical Fish shared  the display. 

Wishing Mamas a speedy recovery.

Another master modeller, Richard 'It's an Ashton' Ashton attended, and had a few items on display.

Puppet re-creations from Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's TV series:

Some movie monster kits

You couldn't have a Smallspace without a few Blake's 7 items on display:

This model of the Space Princess built by Bill Pearson was particularly impressive.  

The infamous hairdryer spaceship, with added R2-D2! 

The Atlay Shuttle.

Federation Pursuit ship.

There was something for fans of the Netflix drama series, Stranger Things: Police chief Jim Hopper's Chevrolet was parked outside the hall.

Another original prop on display brought along by collector and restorer, Alan Stephenson is this puppet used during an underwater sequence for the James Bond film, 'For Your Eyes Only' 

With time against me, there was a lot more displays and models that I just didn't get to; apologies for that, but here's one final look at some more of these fine miniatures.  

The day went very well. It was great to meet up in person with on-line friends like Chris Rogerson, Tony Freeman, Richard Ashton and to some degree, Steve Begg, Being collared by Rocky Marshall was certainly a highlight too. 

I should also add my thanks to the main organisers,  Paul Fitzmaurice and Mat Irvine