When I received this photograph from Colin Spiers I was extremely surprised to read that it was his first attempt at model-making. The beautifully detailed 00-gauge farm diorama is of his original home in County Down, Northern Ireland. “I enjoyed this challenge and I appreciate the products that are available from York Modelmaking as this …
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Roger Marler, of Calgary, Canada, has completed his model of Marlborough Station and it’s now in place on his friend’s layout of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway. Without any form of architectural drawings of the building, but with just a handful of early photographs available, he had to make a series of educated …
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“You may remember making parts for this signal box last November, the brick walls, window frames, brackets and some other bits. The roofing slates are also yours. It has taken me most of my spare time since to complete the model and here are some pictures of the finished result.” Paul Scott Link to guidance …
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Jim Edwards has used 7 of our 0 scale low-relief terrace house kits for his new Mamhead exhibition layout. The standard kits have plane MDF elevations to which you can add one of our laser-etched facades or your own covering. Bob Hunter needed 35 houses for the back-scene of his layout so we laser-etched the …
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We are still working to keep you supplied with your modelling requirements, but please bear with us; we are extremely busy, so you may have to wait a little longer than normal. We are keeping our trips to the post office to a minimum, so larger UK orders that would normally be sent using a …
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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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There’s a fair chance that if you regularly view YouTube videos, you’ll also be a follower of DaveClass47, as he has over 22 thousand subscribers. If you haven’t already, we recommend you take a look at his Dean Park videos. They include helpful advice and tips, as well as just being a joy to watch. …
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