Easter Road
Like many of his professionalcounterparts, Gaff first made models in his childhood bedroom. "I later became fascinated by football grounds when I started followed Hibernian (Hibs) on their travels. There's something so exciting about turning a corner and seeing the floodlights. I remember night games at Easter Road (where Hibernian play), walking up St Clair Street and seeing the lights blazing."
"And then once you got onto the terracing and saw the green baize of the pitch shining under the floodlights, that stuck in my mind."
His first ground model depicted Easter Road in the mid-1980s. That took Gaff six months to complete, beavering away every night in his freezing cold workshop on the outskirts of Edinburgh after a full day's work as a joiner. He then teamed up with artist and fellow Hibs fan, Jim Anderson, to add more colour and authenticity on a further model of Easter Road in the 1950s - the Hibees' golden era - when they won two Scottish League championships and reached the semi-finals of the European Cup. A third model, of the now defunct Glasgow ground Cathkin Park, formed the centrepiece of an exhibition about the late-lamented club, Third Lanark.
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