Smallspace 5

Our 8 Foot Cat goes to Milton Kenes. On Sunday 3rd July 2016. Alex and I travelled over three hours to get to Hanslope Village Hall, near Milton Keynes. This event is Smallspace 5.  Mat Irvine and Paul Fitzmaurice are the organisers.

8 Foot Robot Cat vs a Black Dalek at Smallspace 5, Milton Keynes

8-Foot-Robot-Cat at Smallspace 5, Milton Keynes

Matt Irvine Meets Our 8 Foot Robot Cat

Martin with Mat Irvine

First, we met Mat Irvine. He is well-known as a Technical Consultant and Visual Effects Designer. He has worked on numerous BBC Television programmes. These include Robot Wars, Tomorrow’s World, and The Sky at Night. Not to mension Tom Baker’s Doctor Who.

He created the first K-9 for Doctor Who in 1977. Then he appeared with K9 Mark III in K9 and Company and Elisabeth Sladen on Totally Doctor Who in 2006. Matt operated K9, Mark IV in David Tennant’s Doctor Who, “School Reunion”. He appears at Science Fiction and Doctor Who conventions, often alongside K9.

8-Foot-Robot-Cat at Milton Keynes

Secondly, we met Paul Fitzmaurice. He has a website, modellingtools.co.uk. It is well worth a visit. Modelling-tools offer a personal touch and can answer questions by phone and email. They sell all the modelling tools and accessories to build models. Modelling-tools attends many model shows.  Additionally, people can see their goods close up.

Alex and I meet the designer of the Eagle space crafts. They are from Gerry Anderson’s Space: 1999. He is the Oscar-winning special effects expert Brian Johnson.

 All things considered, it was a truely unique experience!

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