• RELEASED: Aug 2005
• FORMAT: NYC Subway train custom
• LABEL: PLAYLOUNGE
• DESIGN: Openmind
• PHOTOGRAPHY: Openmind
• SPOTTERS DELIGHT: Elements of this ended up on the cover of Amon Tobin’s ‘Foley Room’ LP two years later

Back in March of 2005, Playlounge, the emporium of all things plastic and toy-like in London’s Beak St, asked me to customise one of their mini replica NY subway trains for them. It took a few months but I finally turned in this Gundam-esque creation which has a little satellite piece which floats above the main body.

I didn’t want to paint a design on the side of the train, more use it as part of something larger because I thought the actual shape of the train wasn’t that attractive. Here we have something either growing out of the car or swallowing it like the end of Akira … it went down pretty well in the shop. Sadly the shop is now closed but I have the model hanging over the entrance to my studio.