indent If you want to see the main web site you have just missed the link! Just click on the text or logo above. The rest of this page is an attempt to correct changes in the way search engines now find this site. Put simply, people looking for my services might use four or five additions to the words "model railways" or "railway modeller" to find me; prefixes such as "professional" and "scale" or suffixes like "builder", "maker", "designer" or "manufacturer".  Since there are many ways of combining these words and since leading SEO practitioners suggest such repetition will be treated as "spam" unless the phrases can also be found in "the body" of the text, I have repeasted most of these "tags" below.  Since such repeptition tells you nothing and makes for boring reading I suggest you ignore the rest of this page and click on the logo above which will take you to the main body of the site, the photo gallery, info about us etc. etc.   Enjoy!
indentWe have been in business as professional railway modellers, professional model railway designers, professional model railway builders or professional model railway makers, call us what you will,  for nearly 25 years.  We have accepted commissions for scale model railways and gained experience in all types of model railways from the toy train set to the public exhibition model railway and as professional railway modellers we work in a wide variety of scales and gauges.  Proprietor Andy McMillan trained at Pendon and worked for the National Model Museum as well as winning over the years a variety of awards, trophies and medals for his model locomotives and artistic skills.  These include, in his pre-professional railway modelling days, a commended and a bronze medal for trains at International Model Reilway Exhibitions at the Alexandra Palace; the model railway equivalent of an Olympic medal and another appearance in a final!  Mind you, that was 20 odd years ago...
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indentWe have been in business accepting commissions for scale model railways since 1979 and have gained experience in all types of model railways from the toy train set (but one you can operate "just like the real thing", unlike most so-called toy train set plans which are generally designed by the companies which sell the train sets to fit as much of their own products as possible into the smallest space!), to the permanent public exhibition model railway, a typical example of which we made for Poole Quay in the 80s and which now has a new lease of life at Compton Acres, just outside Bournemouth. We work in a wide variety of scales and gauges; from Z gauge through N, 3mm, S gauge, O fine, S7, G1 and can work in other scales we've never heard of but one way or another they are all built to order. As it happens, I've never felt it necessary to put so much stuff on the front page before but it seems the search engines have changed the way they search for things and my position on some of them has plummeted of late! However, we'll try this approach in an attempt to help you find us when you want us. Of course, now you have found us I trust you haven't wasted lots of your time reading all this! If you have then my apologies but sometimes you just have to go along with the "Big Boys" and their latest electronic gizmos; after all, they are trying to eliminate spam-merchants to help you find genuine sites and if this is what it takes, so be it!   If you have got this far you will be delighted to learn that the normal part of the site begins here...