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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Blowers Green Station

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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Creative Thinking

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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Berimouth Station

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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