Jon Fitness Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Whilst surfing the web looking for 7mm laser cut terraced houses I found these but only in 4mm scale. I was very taken with the brickwork pattern and the apparent simplicity of construction (very necessary for me!) and also the fact that the full depth house is available, not just low relief versions. I contacted the maker who turned out to be a very helpful chap and he agreed to upscale a kit to 7mm scale for me. He sent me the first one to try out and here are the results. They are lasered from 3mm ply and are very robust and fit together perfectly. In fact the initial construction of the internal shell fitted together so well I did a dry run without glue and was able pick up the assembly without it collapsing. I used PVA for construction and painted it with Humbrol enamels. Its basically a "straight build" but I added some ridge tiles from sticky paper and I decided not to use the lintels and sills which being lasered from 3mm ply also, looked a bit heavy. In the end I added sills cut from 1mm ply. I think the only change I would make to the kit would be to remove the window frames and laser them from 1mm ply instead of 3mm. Other than that, I love it! I'll let the pics do the talking but feel free to comment JF 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theakerr Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 1st time i have come across them. They do look very nice and at long last someone is making an "up-market" terrace house - sort of. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 1st time i have come across them. They do look very nice and at long last someone is making an "up-market" terrace house - sort of. I think the shop and pub are next for the 7mm treatment.. JF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Vecchio Posted August 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2016 (edited) Looks like a proper quality kit to me. I am working in a different scale, but I love laser cut building kits. You never get the same details with injection moulded plastic. And you have more fun and individuality as something has to be painted. Example: station building for my current project Donnersbachkogel (H0). The woodwork is exceptional. Or the handrails at the stairs (didn't fit all of them as it is safer to do so when the building goes to its final location) IMGP5411 IMGP5418. Edited August 3, 2016 by Vecchio Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 (edited) Ihave a couple of the kits as well as the LR cinema. All very reasonable price, which compensates for the problem most laser cut brick buildings have and that is brick detail on corners. But at the price of these kits I can put up with that. Fun to build as well. The cobble stone sheets are good value and match my 3D printed inset track spot on.I had not thought of contacting them to see about upping models to 7mm scale. I may contact them to see if they can up the size of cobbles from 3 rows per 7mm to 2 rows per 7mm, which is what I have 7mm/ft scale track sections set to. Finding new companies like this shows that maybe we need to be trying harder to encourage new people to try out new technologies and work together with others. I think they are now asdvertising in one magazine, but I originally found them last year on ebay. I have mentioned what they do to others. I know others have used some kits, the station canopies are actually pretty good for larger scales despite being designed for OO gauge, just needing a bit extra height. Edited August 3, 2016 by rue_d_etropal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted August 3, 2016 Author Share Posted August 3, 2016 Looks like a proper quality kit to me. I am working in a different scale, but I love laser cut building kits. You never get the same details with injection moulded plastic. And you have more fun and individuality as something has to be painted. Example: station building for my current project Donnersbachkogel (H0). The woodwork is exceptional. Or the handrails at the stairs (didn't fit all of them as it is safer to do so when the building goes to its final location) IMGP5411 IMGP5418. They look superb. I'm not really a building builder but I'm finding these kits are quite satisfying and simple to put together. JF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 There is a huge range in prices for laser cut kits. The In-the-Greenwood ones work because the are not expensive so you feel you can modify them .It is a pity most British laser cut kits go for brick finish. Not only does this incease number of cuts/engraveing, but limits bond to stretcher often. Not a problem for houses as stretcher bond was introduced around 1900 for houses, but industrial/railway buildings continued with other bonds. A simple stone block pattern(in effect larger bricks) would gnot only get round this problem, but also appeal to those wanting a stone finish. There is a superb rage of French kits which are not cheap, especially for bigger ones, but look very tempting to me http://architecture-passion.fr/ Some of the small buildings are almost pocket money price. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Harbour Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Whilst surfing the web looking for 7mm laser cut terraced houses I found these but only in 4mm scale. I was very taken with the brickwork pattern and the apparent simplicity of construction (very necessary for me!) and also the fact that the full depth house is available, not just low relief versions. I contacted the maker who turned out to be a very helpful chap and he agreed to upscale a kit to 7mm scale for me. He sent me the first one to try out and here are the results. They are lasered from 3mm ply and are very robust and fit together perfectly. In fact the initial construction of the internal shell fitted together so well I did a dry run without glue and was able pick up the assembly without it collapsing. I used PVA for construction and painted it with Humbrol enamels. Its basically a "straight build" but I added some ridge tiles from sticky paper and I decided not to use the lintels and sills which being lasered from 3mm ply also, looked a bit heavy. In the end I added sills cut from 1mm ply. I think the only change I would make to the kit would be to remove the window frames and laser them from 1mm ply instead of 3mm. Other than that, I love it! I'll let the pics do the talking but feel free to comment JF This is very useful to me thanks! I am working on the same kit but in N Scale and was wondering about the interior design, as the N-scale version has no interior walls. This visualisation really helps! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert17649 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 I have a couple of these , They are a bit chunky, but attractive buildings well detailed and easy to build. And reasonably priced at least in 4mm. I wish I had space for more of them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 In need of a road bridge similar to the Bath Road bridge to the south of Temple Meads they have supplied me with one of their rail bridges but without the cut outs in the deck :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 I noticed this firm a few months ago in my search for a decent signal box to use on my pre-grouping layout which is either going to be LBSCR or LSWR, and they seem to be the only ones to offer a decent kit of an LSWR Signal box! I think they advertise it as a 'platform' signal box, but it is clearly of LSWR design. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leander22b Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I noticed this firm a few months ago in my search for a decent signal box to use on my pre-grouping layout which is either going to be LBSCR or LSWR, and they seem to be the only ones to offer a decent kit of an LSWR Signal box! I think they advertise it as a 'platform' signal box, but it is clearly of LSWR design. https://www.inthegreenwoodlaser.co.uk/collections/oo-gauge-modelling/products/sb002-signal-box-type-2-oo-gauge-laser-cut-kit If this is the platform signal box you mean I thought it was Furness Railway. This & the 'Hesketh' station look dead ringers for Haverthwaite. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 More likely to be northern, as they are based near Stockport. The cinema/theatre they do is a well known building in Stockport. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcD Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 It does look like this. but I could be dreaming. Marc 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert17649 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 (edited) I bought a couple of low relief 4mm kits from him. Neat and fitted well in my layout. I left the chimneys off to paint the roof but , in the recent bad weather, suffered a water ingress situation (small flood)in my shed/railway room and the chimneys all got a soaking which changed their shape.I contacted Dave and a bag of chimney bits arrived very quickly. Impressive service, now must make space for more kits! Edited March 16, 2018 by robert17649 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Ah, so it's Furness... Oh well... I suppose the window arrangement fooled me, and the fact that (earlier on) some LSWR boxes (ISTR) had the 'cross' framework on the front: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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