18February 2017

We were contacted recently by Gianluca Gianfaldoni, the talented modeller whose diorama  of Jeff Hawke, Fortuna and the HOPE  starship, was featured in one of our posts last year.  He has told us that he intends to make another Hawke model in the near future , but in the meantime has sent us some pictures of his latest  creation. It features a subject from another well-known  British sci-fi series, namely BLAKE’S 7  and is a beautifully executed  model of the LIBERATOR, the alien craft which Blake, Avon and Jenna, capture and then commandeer for themselves.

Gianluca tells me that the model was scratchbuilt mainly  from everyday objects including a beach-toy, lipstick cases, pins and  scrap plastic, together with some plastic-card and modelling putty. The photos below show how such objects are transformed by a master-modeller, into an iconic spaceship.

We eagerly await his next Hawke creation.  Skipper Prossitt