Well almost a week went by without myself or Tammy going to the studio, illness and sheer workload prevented either of us going down, but hopefully we are back in track now. A week ago saturday, I met Phil, our electrician, http://www.ampedupelectrical.com/ (website is under construction so please be patient, Phil is concentrating more on his electrical work at the moment and will finish updating it when he has 5 minutes !), and whilst he busied himself taking the awful striplights down and replacing them, and moving the odd socket I started on the back wall.

"Phil hard at it !, not one cup of tea in site, I like this guy ;)"

The main framework went up ok, used the lighting stands to balance the top cross beam while I put the uprights in lol, be nice when I get to use them for photography again !

Once all the uprights were put in, the structure felt very sturdy, the trick is to cut the uprights slightly too long, by a few mm, and hammer them into place, nice tight fit equals no movement. Still got the cross members to put in, but will do that as I fit the plasterboard sheets. That was it for this saturday and as it turned out, for the week .....

Then carried on and made the side of the set on my next visit, now you can see the set taking shape, its going to be a corner studio, so we need to make an infinity curve now that goes all the way round......

We decided that we wanted the whole office at the back for editing and mount making etc, so the idea of removing the podium was to build a viewing / changing room in its place.....

So whilst Phil finished off what I had asked him to do for now, I started building our new changing and viewing room. As you can see the lighting circuit is off and we are working with worklights.

This is the room almost built, has a doorway and a window ! :)

This is the view of the studio from the window in the changing room, so any family or models etc can see whats going on without getting in the way of the set and photographer. Pretty cool huh ? We may also sell Hotdogs and Burgers from here LOL.

Well thats pretty much where it is at the moment, thanks to Jamie for cutting us some vinyl lettering for our mailbox, as well as hiring Phil if you need an electrician, Jamie is also useful to know if you need any vinyl graphics doing, or livery for your work van or even just a temporary England vinyl for the world cup ! :) These two guys are amazing and you wont go far wrong with them !

Other than the build, we have also been getting further on with the boring side, registrations, paperwork, basically signing our lives away many times lol, we now have a website address although the website wont be built properly until the Studio is finished, but you can view a temporary page here, and please do use the email and check it works ok ! :)

http://www.thelondonroadstudio.co.uk/

Yesterday we went and cleared alot from the office, cut up lots of wood to dispose of, and poor Tammy had the unenviable job of going to the tip with it. I did load the car for her ! ;)

Lots more to do still, but its definately heading in the right direction :).

Check back soon and see what else we've done ! :)