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Star Wars Auction- for a fellow SFX Model Maker

Hello all, This is the sort of feel good news that needs to be shared. As you know I used to work in California making models for movies, blowing them up and the like. Well, Robbie Edwards, a fellow English man, was one of my co-workers, and my friend. Robbie working on Pirates of The Carribean, messy making.  On Greenscreen set, Robbie sets out to sink a ship. Unfortunately Robbie suffered a stroke in Sept 2013,  it was devastating, but he's managed to cling to life and kept a wonderful sense of humor with his slogan of 'musn't grumble' how very English. Although his recovery has been laborious and painful, he is learning to walk again, and getting his motorskills back, a hidden element of the stroke is the fact it affected his temporal lobe- the part that affects creativity- his job was primarily creative as a model maker on major motion picture movies in California. His wife has written a blog here. He has worked 30 movies in 20 years in