Hodges Brewery

Peter Lane used our window frames, stone quoins, brick and stone headers and louvred windows, all from our standard range of architectural components, for the brewery buildings on his ‘Hodges Brewery’ diorama.

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Chelfham Station, Lynton and Barnstaple Line

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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Farm Diorama

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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Marlborough Low Level Station

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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Smoke Troughs

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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