Hiya Paramount!

Thanks for the warm welcome. At the moment, my real modelling skill and passion is vehicles and I imagine I will probably get around to resurrecting my Straker's car model first. Clothing is something I have just started to delve into and when I've got that figured out, I'll probably have a go at doing some SHADO outfits- though you'll have to bear with me on this until I've nailed the learning curve.

Great to hear that you've seen the Elstree studios. I read somewhere that this was now being used for the exterior shots of either Holby City or Casualty (can't remember which) so I guess it still has its uses!

Straker's car and the other one (SHADO car, I think it's generally known as) have fairly well documented histories. From what I last read, Straker's car was in somebody's back garden in a roughish state and the owner wasn't interested in selling it, while the SHADO car had been rescued by a UFO fan in a poor state of repair and the new owner is gradually restoring it. As for those six-wheeled van-type things, I can't seem to find out much. I believe they (or "it," assuming there might only be one) were based on Minis. Whether or not they survive today, I really don't know.

When I had my original idea to put together a whole set of UFO-related Poser items, I e-mailed Anthony Appleyard who often posts freestuff on R'osity and who I knew had done some UFO stuff. He was pretty enthusiastic about the idea and was quite willing and happy to have his models included in the list of resources for UFO/Poser users. He has some very useful and cool links on his site, so for anyone that doesn't know about it here's the link:

http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/

I was fortunate enough a few years ago to buy a UFO annual from a Gerry Anderson fan who was selling up his collection and in it there were signatures from Ed Bishop, Michael Billington and George Sewell, which I'm quite proud of since sadly there's no chance of getting some of these now. I already had a signed photo of Gabrielle Drake after writing to her about UFO so to have signatures of most of the core cast is pretty special to me.

I'd absolutely love it if we could get all these Poser-ized versions of the UFO stuff together into some central repository and hopefully some slick storytellers could come up with some sort of ongoing comic-strip type adventures of SHADO. The real TV series ended on a note that wasn't at all conclusive so by default they've opened up the doors for us all to speculate.

So let's speculate!