BLAKE'S 7 AT SMALLSPACE 10

 Unsurprisingly, there’s always a welcome Blake’s 7 presence at Smallspace as one of the co-organisers, Mat Irvine, was part of the BBC Special Effects team who worked on the original series. He still has in his possession what’s left of the original large Liberator model.

However for Smallspace 10, modeller Richard Ashton brought along a brand new Liberator model, complete with a highly detailed display base’

Much to Richard’s surprise and delight the model won best in Solar System. Here’s Richard being presented with the award by BBC Effects man, Mike Tucker, with actor John Leeson in the middle.

This light coloured Federation Pursuit Ship was built by Gary Welsh, of ‘Model Behaviour’. Gary won the award last year with an impressive looking Dreadnought model from Star Wars.

Another of Gary’s models. Not Blake’s 7 but still very tidy.

There was also plenty of original & replica props from the series on display. I’ve covered some of these previously, and I know many belong to Gary Holland.