Paolo Malaguti,s UFO model

>Well, there don't appear to be any original UFO's left -- >based on
>the size of the model in that photo, I'd say that this is the >model
>that SHED released in 1989.

Thanks Marc.I Thought it might be the SHED model as well.
Because of the distance and the lighting however it was hard to tell.
I think it was Mr Blackman (model maker who worked with Derek Meddings) who said that most of the UFO models
were destroyed (what a loss).

Mark UK

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--- "Mark Davies" <aonq79@d...> wrote (Re: Paolo Malaguti,s UFO
model):
> ... I think it was Mr Blackman (model maker who worked with Derek
> Meddings) who said that most of the UFO models were destroyed (what
> a loss).

The studio likely had to save on storage space. If the studio kept
every model and costume from every movie that they made, it would
likely have needed too much storage room. Plus expense on necessary
conservation measures, for costumes made of natural fiber that moulds
or moths can eat, and for wooden models that can attract and then
spread wood rots and woodworm.

Still, it would have been nice to have kept the alien spacesuits
intact. Has anyone there seen a good reproduction UFO series alien
spacesuit being displayed or worn by a fan at a convention?

Off topic, but carrying on about film prop spacesuits:-

On Friday 28 December 2001, and on Sunday 19 Jan 2003, on Channel 4
(UK TV) I saw Ray Harryhausen's 1964 UK film of H.G.Wells's "First
Men in the Moon" made at Shepperton in England. In it two old-type
hardhat diving suits (see http://www.thehds.com/ ) were used as
spacesuits. The story was set in partly in 1899 as in the book, and
partly in 1964 when the first Apollo astronauts find remains of what
had happened. Earth diseases brought by the 1899 expedition had
killed all the Selenites. Unlike in some space films, the producer
showed that gravity is much less on the Moon. In the 1899 events the
hardhat suits were used as spacesuits, with helmets and corselets and
chest and back weights and weighted boots, but no lifelines or
airlines. A large Siebe Gorman type aqualung cylinder (described as
an oxygen cylinder) was slung across the back of each at an angle
connected by a hose to one of the connections on the helmet. Nothing
was said or shown about how they coped with the ballooning problem in
space vacuum. The 1964 astronauts wore realistic spacesuits but each
had a large Siebe Gorman type aqualung cylinder vertical on the back
instead of the familiar astronaut rectangular backpack.