Mostly we laser-cut for the smaller gauge railway layouts but occasionally we cut much larger pieces for Garden layouts and in this case a full size lighting gantry for Aubrey Turner. The two designs were cut from 4mm MDF in seven sections to give a total length of six meters.
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Richard Thomas purchased two of our 00-Footbridge01 kits, plus a selection of additional frets from the standard kits, to construct this very impressive bridge across his layout, which is loosely based on the area north of Manchester, in the vicinity of Park Station (chosen as he lives in Park Lane) and Philips Park sidings. It …
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We have supplied Brian Fitzsimons with many architectural details over the years. For his glazed canopy we supplied GER-pattern valance (00-VAL105) and bespoke canopy brackets to this ‘cobweb’ design. The photograph shows it set into a temporary jig prior to assembling at the rear of the station.
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I’m going to stick my neck out and say Dent Station must be the most recognisable UK station in the realm of railway model layouts – but I’m open to other suggestions? Just in case you’re not familiar with it; the railway station is on the Settle and Carlisle Line. We’re laser-cutting sets of windows …
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We were approached by Giles Baxter back in 2020 to laser-cut plywood roof beams and end screens with intricate tracery for a 00 scale model of York Station. He decided to replicate the Victorian engineering of the roof; no mean feat as anyone who has seen Yorks curving roof will appreciate. William Guild, a recently …
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Ian Hopkins is using frets from our 0-Footbridge01 kits to build his customized lattice footbridges for a model of the London terminus which the L&SWR built at South Kensington on the District Line. The bridge is different in various ways to our standard kit; in the main having extra broad steps at 10’ wide. The …
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David Pinch has just completed this fabulous model of Bournemouth Central Station. Last year we supplied him with the bespoke MDF walls and modified versions of our standard 00-Door08 and 00-202 windows. “It was a pleasure to work with such accurately produced parts – not even having to remove from sprues” David Please get in …
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Barry Witteridge of the 009 Society, Oxford Group, constructed this Chelfham railway building using our bespoke laser-cut windows, doors, screen and barge boards, along with our terracotta diamond tiles. We had previously laser-cut these 4mm scale components for Mr Barnard, who kindly gave his permission for us to use the drawings we had produced for …
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John Shaw designed this kit of parts for a 4mm loco shed for a friend’s layout. With a little guidance from us he was able to provide us with computer drawing files ready for laser-cutting. The most time consuming part of any bespoke project is producing the drawings so if you, or a friend, can …
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“Thank you so much. You’ve brought a 50 odd year old Hornby Dublo building back to life”. When we received one of the few remaining windows from Graham Day’s Hornby Dublo model we were able to use it to create the required computer drawings to then laser-cut perfect copies. As he said when he kindly …
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