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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We love to see how our “off-the-shelf” products have been used; it’s not always as we’d expect. Graham Allen used our 0-scale canopy brackets as trusses for his N-scale buildings. Roof trusses and girders are amongst the new products we’ve just added to our new website in the Industrial and Construction sections in N / …
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David Stewart kindly let members of the N-Gauge Forum know about the addition of Milestones and Gradient Posts to our online shop. As he says in the forum article, he’s been nagging us to make these for a while now! But I’m glad to say he was happy with the results and has sent me …
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We often work for clients all round the world, but Roger Marler’s project turned out to be a truly international one. Following a recommendation from New Zealand, he constructed the model of Barnstaple Signal Box (top left) for a customer in the Republic of Ireland, using our custom laser-cut windows, door and signs, along with …
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Model Rail magazine have done another Workbench article on upgrading a card kit in the November issue. George Dent has used our self-adhesive decorative tiles to add interest to the roof, interspersing them with hand-cut individual tiles to give a ramshackle look. If you don’t have the time, or patience, you can achieve a random …
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Andy Embling, Membership Secretary of the Borders Line Modellers, sent us a link to an article about the model we helped them scratch-build of Berimouth Station. Andy writes: “We decided early on that to model the station completely was beyond our timescales and probably beyond our capabilities to do accurately. We therefore decided to use …
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Brian Wainwright writes: “I thought you might like to see this photo showing what I have done with one of your footbridge kits and part of another. The bridge supposedly carries a right of way across the railway and does not serve the station. The station is very far from complete as yet and the …
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