User:CombineHarvester01

Hello all, this is CombineHarvester01. My real first name is Christopher, and although I cannot say precisely where, I'm based in a lovely corner of the south of the United Kingdom.

Thomas The Model Series[edit]

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Thomas as portrayed in Thomas The Model Series.

I'm the creator of the highly-successful online series, Thomas The Model Series, based upon Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends and The Railway Series. Known as TTMS for short, it is filmed using live action animation technologies, with the models being 00/H0 Gauge, created by Hornby Railways and Bachmann Industries model railways. The narrow gauge trains are wooden. The human characters are added in by 2D animation. The series centers the adventures of Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby and all of their other really useful friends on the Sodor layout. They are accompanied by other characters that appear only in this series, including Gary, Steve, Matthew Mack the Quarry Master, Captain Travis the Pirate Engine, Algar the Combine Harvester, Frankie the Narrow Gauge crane and Ernie, the Japanese railway lorry. There's also Tiger Moth, the troublesome Bi-Plane, who does his best to spoil their adventures!

All the character voices are done by me. However, friend of the series TheJanitor1993 appeared in a brief role as the Japanese Instructor in episode 11, and co-director RayTheTrainEngine is due to appear as Hans Parkinson the Dockyard Manager and Mr. Theodore Gillus the Film Director in future episodes.

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The Narrow Gauge Engines from the series.

TTMS currently has 13 episodes:

Thomas and the Big Tidy Up
Oh, Where Could Gary Be?
Duck and the Plane Problem
Buried Treasures
James Takes Charge
Snowed Under
Two Un-Birds of a Feather
Gary's Big Mistake
Thomas Leads The Way
Multi-Task Henry
Thomas and Percy's Foreign Adventure
James In Peril
Focus the Island

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Gordon (left) and James (right) from the series.

The following episodes are currently in production, with many more to come:

Gyles Goes For Miles
Goldie Oldie
Track of Doom
Percy's Spooky Night
Edward and the Diesel Disaster
Peter Sam and the Film Director
Thomas Caves In
The Big Party

The series also has a special, Thomas' Model Christmas.

A feature film, Thomas The Model Movie, is also currently being made, due for release on 7th December 2007 (UK and Ireland), and 21st December 2007 (all other English-speaking countries).

My Animations[edit]

One of my greatest crazes is for animation. I have produced several short animated films on my PC, inspired by the works of Terry Gilliam's animated sequences for Monty Python and Aardman Animations. They can be viewed over on YouTube.

They include: