Miniature Wedding Bower (l) and Pearson with refinery prototype from Outland. |
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| Two of the most talented miniature de- signer/builders in England have decid- ed to "tie-the-knot." Martin J. Bower and Bill Pearson have worked together so long that a partnership was a natural idea. Their past collaborations include Alien, The Medusa Touch, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Dino De Lautentiis' Flash Gordon. "We've worked together so often that we thought we should make it legal and stop peo- ple from talking," comments Pearson. Their new company is called Bowerhouse Model Associates and they've just completed work constructing a miniature refinery and |
spacecraft for Peter Hyams' forthcoming space opera, Outland, starring Sean Connery. Bower and Pearson spent 12 weeks constructing the 19-foot refinery for special- effects director John Stears. Last May, Bower and Pearson gave STARLOG contributing editor Dave Hirsch a tour of their modern workshop facility. Be- tween productions, the two men devote a great deal of time to the fine-tuning of their techniques by experimenting with the con- struction of originally designed models (a few of Bower's early efforts appeared in Space: 1999.) |
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