Starting first as a one off homage to my favourite 60’s TV series ‘The Prisoner’,  back in 1994 I decided to scratch build a small scale replica of the character Number 6’s cottage.

However, bringing up a family and building a busy career in Advertising didn’t leave time for me to pursue an interest by Portmeirion’s management in creating a model of the whole village for planned display in the Green Dome.

The dream of one day building my own scale version of Portmeirion lay dormant until a day visit in 2012 re-ignited the plan and as Sir Clough Williams-Ellis’ scale drawings of the Bell Tower had already been published I decided that this was my next model making project.

The tower was to take over 3 ½ years to complete and unlike the original ‘Number 6 Cottage’ model I decided to record the build process.

As everything is hand made and hand painted it gives the work my own individual style and this coupled with my foundational desire to do justice to Sir Clough's magnum opus hopefully gives you, the viewer a little of that experience of ‘being there’.

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