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Sunday, 20 July 2025

SMALLSPACE 12 PART 3

A final look at some of the photos from last Sunday’s Smallspace event.

As I said in my first post, Andy Preston’s Refit Enterprise was the star of the show for me. His attention to detail, and his meticulous pearlescent paint job was second to none.

Andy tells me it took around 4 months on and off, to carefully complete the painting process.

Some more shots of Richard Ashton’s highly detailed scratch-built models.

A couple of photos from the Motion Picture Miniatures display, showing castings of the 27” Batwing as seen in Tim Burton’s, Batman.

A Klingon Vor’cha battle cruiser from Star Trek: The Next Generation. When completed this will be displayed at the National Film and Sc-Fi Museum at Milton Keynes.

Two 1:72 scale dioramas on display at the Cozmic Scale Modals stall. One showing a scene from ‘V’, and another showing a Battlestar Galactica Viper Hangar.

Another couple of photos showing Kevin D’s models, and a photo of Kevin and Myself by his display (photo taken by Mike Tucker)

A few candid shots of some of the other friends I meet up with.

Prolific modeller David Sisson and his partner, Alison Thorne always put on a great model display. This year was no exception.

Space:1999 expert and collector , Simon Rhodes, who displayed some of his original Mike Noble ‘Star Fleet’ artwork, seen here sat with trader, transport manager, and all round good guy, Tony Freeman and Alison Thorne.

In the foreground, Tony Freeman, with fellow film fan and prop collector, Simon Greetham chatting with David Sisson.

Ever wondered what’s inside a Dalek casing. Here’s all the complicated remote control gubbins inside Iain McDonald’s grey Dalek.

Finally, some photos I’ll file under miscellaneous.

A 1: 3 scale ‘Power of the Daleks’ Dalek model in it’s own excellent diorama.

A resin model rocket, built by Andrew Prentis, based on designs seen in the Dan Dare inspired ‘Ministry of Space’ graphic novel.

A model of a Borg in it’s alcove. Unfortunately, I don’t who made this model, but it looked great and included a green flickering lighting effect.

Coming soon: The next adventure will be at Cromford Mills Comic Con

SPACEX II SURVEYOR AND FRIENDS

There you go , Woodsy., some Spacex in suitable surroundings. I thought I'd posted these not so long back.

Spacex II Surveyor 2

Another old gem on the Worthpoint archive, the glorious SpaceX Golden Astronaut Surveyor.

Not one I have and despite missing it's arms, it's still a Bobby dazzler!

Anyone got one?

Here's a complete American boxed version on Worthpoint too.

You got one of these?

Saturday, 19 July 2025

SMALLSPACE 12 PART 2

More photos I took at Smallspace 12.

Gerry & Sylvia Anderson’s TV series’ are always well represented at Smallspace, including some of Gerry’s later productions.

This Fireball XL5 UNCL resin model with scratch-built launch trolley was built by Andrew Prentis.

As was this Bandai Thunderbird 4 kit.

Round 2 Eagles.

3D printed model of one of the Alpha tanks, displayed by Leicester Modellers

Scratch-built Spectrum Helicopter made by David Sisson.

Some more photos of Vaughan Herriott’s replica puppet figures owned by Paul Stroud.

Secret Service agent, Southern is held by a security robot from '30 Minutes After Noon.'

The explosive bracelets,

Zombite Controller and Zobite leader from 'The Uninvited'.

General Peters from, 'Pit of Peril'.

Not strictly Anderson, but sort of Anderson related - Kim Jong-iL from Team America World Police.

Captain Ochre replica figure.

Detail on the Space Precinct building owned by David Sisson. The little Demeter Van sat on it’s landing pad was added as a section of the prop was missing when David acquired it.