Andy Shaw's monster shares car park at MacMillans biker pub with film rival Alien (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Andy Shaw's monster shares car park at MacMillans biker pub with film rival Alien

3:42pm Wednesday 25th November 2009

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Meet Predator – an eight-foot sci-fi sculpture made by a Bradford industrial artist from 5,000 nuts, bolts and pieces of scrap metal.

Engineer Andy Shaw, 31, created the half-ton figure, based on the Predator film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his garage in Pleasant Street, Great Horton, Bradford.

Using re-claimed materials from scrap motorbikes, he spent two months painstakingly welding together the parts before transporting the 78-stone (500kg) monster to a pub in Halifax.

It now stands in the pub’s car park in a stand-off with a scrap sculpture of its nemesis from the 2004 film, Alien vs Predator.

“They make quite an unusual sight,” said motorbike enthusiast Andy. “The pub landlord commissioned it because I knew him through various motorbike events and he wanted a Predator to go with the Alien that’s already there.”

Andy, who lived in Great Horton and works at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, took up industrial art 12 years ago as a hobby after qualifying as an electrical engineer.

The Predator sculpture was bought for an undisclosed amount by Darren Fawthorp, owner of bikers’ pub MacMillans. Mr Fawthorp is the president of a chapter of the biker’s group Satan’s Slaves.

His daughter, pub manager Ashlie Fawthorp, said: “It is very different but it is completely made out of bike parts, so it fits in with the biker theme of the pub.

“Predator and Alien look brilliant and the level of attention they are getting is huge – everybody goes and gets their pictures taken with them.

“The parents keep winding up their children, saying if they don’t behave, the sculptures will get them!”

Andy will be exhibiting his work this weekend at the Gal-vanize Festival Metal Market at Millennium Galleries in Sheffield.

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