Interview (Sorta) with UFO Modelmaker

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Interview (Sorta) with UFO Modelmaker

Marc Martin-2
Hi All,

Johnny Goode sent me the following interesting e-mail...

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Hi Marc,
some months ago I spoke to a Mr. David Tremont who runs the
Model/effects studios for Warner in Australia. One of the men working
there under Mr. Tremont (Eric Backman) is a Meddings' model-maker,
who built Fireball Xl-5 vehicles, T-Birds, and most importantly for
UFO. I sent a series of questions that Mr. Tremont said he'd see if
Mr. Backman would care to comment on, and after several months this
is the response I got--(please note I don't have the original
questions anymore, so some of this is unexplained, I've injected my
notes into the text in ( ) to help. It might be of interest to
someone if you want to share it with the list.

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reproduction UFO and SHADO kit

anthonyappleyard <MCLSSAA2@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>
Marc Martin <[hidden email]> wrote that Johnny Goode had sent him
this e-mail:-
> ... Most of the [UFO series film prop] models were destroyed, at the time
> nobody wanted them and they could not store them. ...

This is bad news, although I was told something of the sort before. As regards
trying to replace what is lost:-

(0) Straker's car:
(a) What is the latest news on the (i) physical, (ii) legal, possibility of
getting hold of it and restoring it?
(b) There was a thread recently about someone making a replica of it. What
came of that?

(1) Foster's car: similarly ditto?

(2) Models of Mobiles, Interceptors, UFO's, etc; many modelmakers seem to have
done this job already, both physically and as computer mesh files.

(3) What chance of someone with good access to a workshop making a prop alien
spacesuit and helmet and rifle? Preferably with (prop) life-support backpack.
Perhaps the backpack could contain a real oxygen or air cylinder to help to
ventilate the helmet. Someone going to a UFO or Anderson fan meeting in it
would be a real right wow. And it would get good use in any revised version of
the fan fiction video "UFO-1999".

(4) Ditto a SHADO astronaut spacesuit, although that would likely be more
complicated.

(5 etseq) Etc, etc, etc, whatever is sensible and practicable.

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PS. What is the latest news on chances of letting us buy the fan fiction video
"UFO-1999"?
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UFO on TMC2

angelo_finamore
13 July 2000
(Italy h 21.05)
on TMC2 (TeleMontecarlo2)
"Identified".

"Finalmente Identificato". ("Identified").
http://195.62.233.12/Tempor/13-7-2000.JPG

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