Aston Martin DB5

The first in a possible series of cars - the Aston Martin DB5 as popularised in the 3rd James Bond movie, 'Goldfinger'.


The makers of the movie were actually given the prototype DB5 (Chassis No DP/216/1) to use in the movie. Another 3 DB5s joined the Bond stable for use as road cars or in subsequent movies ('Thunderball', 'Goldeneye', etc). John Stears actually cut the hole in the roof for the ejector seat in the prototype!

For those of you interested in the Bond DB5s I can thoroughly recommend Dave Worrall's 'The Most Famous Car in the World' (ISBN 0-9517509-1-7).

Mainline Steam Trust

I have agreed to the following in regards to my drawings of MSHT's locomotives:

1) for each locomotive drawing that I produce I will donate 4 copies to Mainline Steam so that they can raffle them on their excursions;
2) somewhere on each print will be an acknowledgement that the locomotive belongs to Mainline Steam. This will include their web address www.mainlinesteam.co.nz. Since their logo includes their web address I may opt to use that; and
3) whenever I advertise prints of their locomotives I will include a link to their website .

This is an excellent outcome and I look forward to producing further drawings of MSHT's locomotives.