David Purches Email & Phone Number

Horton, Gb

Building, full-size, exhibition, models, prototypes, film, props (Batmobile, batbike, et cetera) in extremely short time frames.

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Trimming, high end, sports car carbon components and assembling them until I finished unit.

Producing models and props for the automotive industry, airline exterior, and interior mock ups and films

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Manufacturing patterns for the latest F1 race car.

Tring, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Leighton Buzzard, England, United Kingdom

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Testing different carbon fibres properties

Hard modelling , producing show cars and interior bucks for Nissan, JLR and Bentley.

Abingdon,Oxfordshire,Uk

My duty's here, cover the production and Materials testing, according to international standards, followed by detailed reports, to control quality in the microstructure of the material (image analysis with use of Optical Microscope), resin cure and mix process (DSC analysis) and calculate allowable strength and stiffness data (Mechanical testing) for product performance and fatigue life prediction.Also constructing display models for presentations and exhibitions .

Banbury ,Oxfordshire, Uk

Marussia differed to other F1 teams as not only did you need the same skill set required as in all F1 modelmaker postion.But being a small team you needed to be adaptable to a more fluid situation, with often changing deadlines , priorities and test requirement's as well as helping in other departments to produce and modify race component's.

Bicester,Oxfordshire, Uk

I ran a small shift processing parts from Stereo Lithography, which were cleaned up to a good painted, finished components and pre-fitted prior to wind tunnel testing. As a small growing team ,you had to adapt to all jobs and demands of the aero department .

Brackley,Oxfordshire,Uk

Process and pre-fit parts in various materials using information from CAD (Catia and Unigraphics) for the 50% model in preparation for wind tunnel testing. This could be from a test consisting of a small number of parts to running a model build from delivered parts to a fully functioning wind tunnel model.

Grove,Oxfordshire,Uk

Produce, pre-fit and test various components for the 60%and full size F1 wind tunnel models using various material's including Carbon and Epoxy.

I produced the patterns ,Carbon Moulds ,components, pre-fitted the components and helped test development parts for prodrive's race and rally cars.

Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire ,Uk

Producing various patterns for the general Aerospace industry to a very high tolerances from display Models of the A380 to the crash test units for the Beagle Mars Lander.

All Over The Uk

M Sport producing patterns for Carbon fibre units Hunting Engineering producing full sized mock up missiles for over seas events.Docker Mouldings shaping pre-prodution car body kits.

Dunstable,Bedfordshire,Uk

Produced parts for wind tunnel and Exhibition models within the general aerospace industry.

Industrial Design Technology, Honours

Art And Design, N.D.(Foundation)

High School, 11 O'Levals And 3 A Levels