You Won’t Believe Your Eyes! How To Make Miniature TV Studio
A few years back, our friend Jim Wickey made a beautiful, perfectly detailed studio for a real TV show. The RCA TK11 scale models are stunningly realistic, but are made of cardboard. Here are some shots of the finished product, and…his how to instructions. Enjoy! -Bobby Ellerbee
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Found IT! Jerry Lewis And The Laughing Cameraman, Original! Thanks to our friend in Brazil, João Antonio Franz, here is the original version of this sketch I mentioned in today’s earlier post. This is from 1960 and shows the same professional laugher behind at TK41, that we see in the 1967 version, BUT instead of […]
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Totally Television! This is an illustration Ampex commissioned for one of the NAB shows. The art is by Jack Davis who you may remember from your MAD Magazine reading days. Source
Amazing.
Does he sell these, because I’m sure as heck not talented enough to build one on my own.
Unbelievable talent. Wow!
Wow!!!!
Incredible!
Wow!
Incredible detail. A video showing him doing the construction would be great to view.
Jodie Peeler, did you take notes?
Great, one nit pick, aren’t cradle heads wrong period for TK-11s?