Capturing the past
With larger and more detailed models of Anfield and Villa Park following - the latter with fibre-opticworking floodlights - Gaff is now hoping to attract orders from other British clubs. Each model takes about one month to research and plan, plus two to three months to build. Every crush barrier is painstakingly recreated. Adverts of the period are accurately reproduced.
The final effect is extraordinary.
"Friends imagine that I'm making tiny wee models of the grounds, and when they see the scale of them, like the Villa model, which measures around 2.2 x 1.6 metres in size, they're amazed. Above all, we don't want the models to look plastic or false, like many of the pristine white models you often see of new buildings. We want to show that the stand roofs were dented and rusty, that the barriers were a bit twisted and the terraces uneven. It's so important to capture the past. With these models we can show youngsters how it was for their dads and granddads to watch football. When you see them, you feel like a giant. But they also bring out the child in all of us. I've not had a bad reaction yet."
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