MODEL BEHAVIOUR

Our resident model expert Andy Pearson is very much in the Pink this issue -as he recalls the ground-breaking CineMagic efforts of his old mate Sid...

The rat bat spider thing from The Angry Red Planet

Ihave a friend living in southern California with whom I meet regularly, if once every five or six years can be described as regular. Unlike your correspondent, he is a man of considerable erudition and achievement, both in the field of medical science and as a creator of models. If I seem to be laying the flattery on with a trowel that’s because he’s allowed me to use some of his work to illustrate this article and I’m hoping to pull-off the same trick at some time in the near future.

The man of whom I speak is Mark Glassy PhD who, when not patenting and researching cures for cancer, wields the tools of model making and painting with consummate skill. He also finds the time to write books on that and related subject at the same time as hosting www. thedoctorsmodelmansion.comwhich is well worth a visit.

Having broached the subject of including some of his model-related work in one of my articles (or ramblings as a friend and excolleague recently termed them) Dr Glassy furnished me with a wealth of images and several of these immediately caught my eye as I was, at the time, conducting some research into one of the lesser-known heroes of the science fiction film, Sidney W. Pink.