disappointingly Turpin wasn’t born unto a mad professor and didn’t apprentice with Dr Jeckle. He went to college like the rest of us. “I did a two year theatre, film hair and make up course at the London College of Fashion, I think it was a HND course, it was so long ago, in the mid 90’s that I can’t remember,” He said.


“I did like the course I don’t think I missed a day. It was a good, although at that time the prosthetics bit wasn’t as involved as the courses are today. Even though I knew that I wanted to pursue a career in prosthetics I always tried my best in the other areas.”


From the horrific injuries and diseases on


Band of Brothers and health awareness posters to moving robots he has covered


with flesh Turpin’s creations mimic reality so closely that flaws are impossible to spot. A sculptor, make-up artist and inventor all rolled into one. “By far the best job was working on the TV show Band of Brothers it was a really good crew, I met new friends and didn’t have one bad day on the job. ”


“A close second was the film King Arthur,


it was shot in Dublin and again was a good crew to be working with, it was hard work but rewarding. So long as there is a good team it makes it makes everything a hundred times easier”


The white stallion that Bill created especially


for King Arthur could easily be mistaken for the real deal. “The thing I really love doing most is fabrication. I like that part a lot, to


put a skin over a large moving animatronic is challenging to say the least.”


So next time your mind bulges at the sight


of an unbelievably surreal, yet real looking creature hold no qualms that it’s probably Bill behind the wax.


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