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I started out on my career as an artist by sculpting miniature toy soldiers and fantasy figures for collectors and gamers, this base expanded as I became involved in jewellery design and architectural modelling.

I was contacted by a television company with the request to supply whole armies of miniature soldiers for a one off TV program called 'A magnum for Schneider.' The success of this program spawned the famous television series called 'Callan.' More television work followed, one film that sticks in my mind was a remake of 'The four feathers' about the British army in the Sudan during 1884/5 staring Beau Bridges, Robert Powel, and Jane Seymour. Some tiny 30 mm high figures of mine were used as the background for the films' opening credits, I was surprised at how well they looked considering that they were considerably expanded in size on a television screen.

James Bond
Order of Lenin

I was interviewed by Stanley Kubrick, who was in pre production for his pet project 'Napoleon,' Stanley wanted to plan all of his battle sequences with models but once he learned of my knowledge of the uniforms of the period there was some talk of using me as a technical advisor, sadly this film was never produced. More film offers came my way including a commission to produce a set of Nazi figures to stand on the desk of a high ranking German officer in the film 'Escape to Athena.' I knew who was to appear in the film and made each of the figures look like the main actors. To my great disappointment the pieces never appeared in the film. I later heard from a colleague that the reason the figures weren't shown was because they were acquired by the various actors who had recognised their likeness in my pieces. How true this story is I don't know but I felt that they could have waited until the movie was finished before getting their hands on them. It wasn't long before I was working almost exclusively for the film industry and I rented a small studio in the old EMI/MGM film studios in Elstree.

I worked on many films including the fantasy movies ' The Dark Crystal,' 'Superman,' Ridley Scots' 'Legend,' 'Krull' 'Return to Oz,' 'The adventures of Baron Munchausen,' 'Labyrinth,' 'Greystoke the legend of Tarzan, lord of the apes,' and 'Raiders of the lost Ark.'

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Staff of Rah headpiece

Staff of Rah Wiki here

I made the headpiece of the staff of Rah for Raiders, which was 90mm in diameter and was shown in close up hundreds of times it's original size, again I was delighted to see how well it stood up to such extreme enlargement on a cinema scope screen.  I also created the bejewelled finger cutlery for the Skeksis creatures that appeared in Jim Henson’s film “The Dark Crystal.” This cutlery was crafted in fine English Pewter polished to a mirror finish.

Dark Crystal - Skeksis Cutlery
Link - 'The Book of Habidabad'

I have worked for every major British and American film Production Company.

Recently I have been working on two ranges of miniatures. The first is a collection of tiny firearms that trace the history of handguns from the earliest to the latest. These miniatures always attract a lot of attention. Because the pieces are made from the finest pewter they can be polished to a mirror finish. This allows for all kinds of finishes to be used from polishing to painting.

The second collection is of tiny pewter figurines standing on top of life size polished pewter thimbles. The subjects of these two thimble ranges are “The great Kings and Queens of England,” and a series of “Hollywood Stars.” I have also managed to complete some painted portraits that are on show in the 'Art & Thimbles' Moonshine Gallery. All of the work sold on this site is produced wholly in England and is fully guaranteed. New products will be added regularly, bookmark and check us out for new stuff.