It's been a while, and a few loyal and long time dedicated Matte Shot readers of foreign locales have been gently 'prompting' me to "pull finger", and get some damned mattes and models onto the cyber-waves. It's summer here, and household jobs, bits of carpentry and sundry unsavoury repairs - too numerous to mention - have held my attention of late, but they are pretty much done, so here we are.