The paper manufacturers, Winsor and Newton, have stopped producing Dusk Red pastel paper, which we’ve been using up to now for our range of red tiles. We’ve chosen a replacement red paper and card manufactured by Colorplan. All of our red tiles and ridges are now laser-cut using Scarlet Red, which is a little brighter …
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An unusual request which we received last year was for smoke troughs for a 00-Gauge roundhouse. I’m sure you’ll agree that Colin Brace’s model looks so amazing that, if you didn’t know, you would think the photographs were of the actual real-life building; complete with 7007 Great Western, Castle class locomotive. We are now producing …
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The diversity of the challenges which our customers set us never ceases to amaze us. The more we showcase the varied bespoke projects we’ve been asked to undertake, the more challenging the projects become! It’s a great privilege to be able to play a part in the construction of our customer’s models, however small or …
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One of the larger projects we completed in 2019 was ‘Blowers Green Station’, based on ‘Tyseleys Station’. In this instance we were commissioned to produce a fully finished 0-Gauge building with interior detail; just leaving the final weathering to be undertaken by our client, Bill Connelly. The building is constructed with an MDF shell, which …
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