A Friendly Reception

This model represents a feature of a large commercial development in Hemel Hempstead and I was commissioned to model the reception area.. The "pyramid" would be repeated at the opposite ends of the office frontage.  The model  features staircases which provide access to the first floor through glazed doors.  The marbled floor was represented with a simulated paint finish and the timber features by the use of veneer.  This highly detailed 1:50 scale model was hand built apart from the commercially produced beams and figures.

A Manchester Warehouse. From Foo Foo Lammar to Captain America

 
This 1 : 50 scale model was constructed to demonstrate the planned conversion of a warehouse at the corner of Dale Street and China Lane in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
The proposals were for conversion of the vacant building into apartments. The model was constructed without a roof and with the rear section cut away to show the arangement of the lightwells and staircases.
The building featured in the film "Captain America" when in 2010, Dale Street was dressed up to represent downtown Brooklyn. The victorian warehouses offered a more convincing representation of 1940's New York than any location in the USA. The Northern Quarter is regularly used for similar location filming and four New York yellow cabs are permanently based in the City.
The basement had previously housed the nightclub "Foo Foo's Palace" home to Manchester's famous drag act. Frank Lammar was the son of an Ancoats rag and bone man and became one of the City's best loved characters, renowned for his £4000 ballgowns.
. His obituary can be read in the Evening News article of the time. : http://goo.gl/8kHeI