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Introduction to Shuttle refurbishment.
I received a call in about 1995 from a guy who was working at Pinewood Studios.
Evidently he was clearing out some old buildings which were due to be demolished to build new houses! Luckily he recognised what he'd found and contacted a friend who in turn contacted me.
This is the little piece of refinery Bill and I made to show the films Director Peter Hyams, how much detail we could put into a small model. It was on the strength of this model that we got the job to do the work on the film.
The shuttle-or what's left of it - arrives at my studios in a very sorry state indeed!.
I start to sort out the bits to see if there's a chance of rebuilding the shuttle model!
The steel bell jet housings are after being buffed up on a motorised wire buffing wheel. Being made of steel they had gone very rusty in the 15 years since the model was built.!
These photos show the restoration of the model back to its original condition. Luckily almost all of it was there! From start to finish the refurbishment took 6 week
