One of my housemates in 1983 at No.1 Highwood Road was Carol (the owner of the goldfish in blog Carol’s goldfish). At the time, she was painting toy soldiers for a company in Belgium. They’d send her the soldiers, she’d paint on the uniforms and other details, then post them back.
One of the steps involved applying the paint using an airbrush — for an even finish, I suppose. The aerosol cans for the air were very expensive, even more so for a freelance artist who didn’t have any other form of work at the time.
Being Carol, however, always very resourceful, she made her own air supplier. She found a car tyre, and would take it to the petrol station on the main road behind our house to pump it up for free. A car tyre also holds more air than an aerosol can, so she’d only need to re-fill the air once a week or so.
The men at the petrol station must’ve wondered what this girl was doing, coming along once a week with a single car tyre — not four tyres, and no car — to pump it up.
(London, 1983)
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