Introduction to my other Models: Click on the black and white image below to open the page with full colour images. Be patient as they take time to load.
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page features Goats:
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AND The stag is on the goat page for lack of a better place to put him. The page is 102 KB. |
 This
character was called, for obvious reasons, Bobby. |
This
page features the Six Character
Cachés (China money boxes). The other five characters were: Beaky, Brief, Butcher, Seadog, and Yokel. The page weighs in at 346 KB. |
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| The page is Other Media, 374 KB. | This page features the other materials I worked with: Bronze, Filled Resin, and Fibreglass. There are pictures of bronzes (like the cat, left,) the Dobermann in filled resin, and the Sea-horse water feature in fibre-glass resin. |
| Yearling Race-Horse (bronze) |  |
1/16th scale van-horse (Filled resin) |
| No photographs survive | See below | No photographs survive |
| Yearling
Race Horse: A clay model and silicone moulds were made for a small bronze. The mould was also used to cast a rubber positive, and a working plaster mould made from which a few ceramic horses were produced. I can find no decent photos of either the ceramic model or the bronze horse. The horse model was eventually transmuted into the 1/12th scale Carriage Horse, which appears on the horse pages, because it is still in production. |
Haddon
Rocker, 1977: A few were produced as a sales aid for a maker of full-sized wooden rocking horses. The china horse was intended to be attached to a curved piece of wood designed as a presentation desk blotter. The difficulty with this model is that the china horse had a peg at the base of each foot which should have fitted firmly into a hole in the wood. But fired clay is not a mechanically perfect product and varies in size by a few thousandths of an inch. The wood shrank or warped and the legs broke. |
Science
Museum 1/16th scale van-horse, 1987. The Science Museum commissioned Mr A. P. Woolrich in 1987 to make a model of a “Lead-Rolling Mill”. This required four horses at 1/16th scale, harnessed with simple trace harness to pull on the beams of a wooden treadmill. Each was slightly different from the other and were produced in a rubber mould using filled casting resin. They were hand painted with acrylic paints. The model formed part of a medieval version of an industrial complex. The horses were placed inside a building with a small cut-away to show how it worked. Because of this restricted view, the only photo I have of it is not suitable for reproduction. I saw it in the gallery some years ago but don’t know what’s happened to it more recently. |
Copyright
Commissions:
After several disappointing ventures, we demanded a substantial sum up
front to make the initial models, which choked off speculative adventurers.
This hard-nose approach did not deter serious clients, and resulted in
three prestigious commissions, illustrated on the page Copyright
Commissions, (228 KB).
| The Van-Dal Little Girl | The Van-Dal Cat in the Shoe | The Start-rite Bicentennial Shoe |
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