New normal. That's the phrase all over the news in the current Covid 19 crisis, but I first heard it in my bereavement counselling sessio...

My mother Betty Stadden passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th April 2020 at the age of 90. She had been increasingly ill with dementia ...

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/26songs26miles Julie Stadden 19/06/1970 - 31/05/2019 My beautiful Julie and I were married in February 201...

Lately I've been just playing around with the possibilities of 3D modelling figures. I drew a locomotive footplate (I'm only really inter...

I've made progress on these new early Victorian figures quicker than expected, and this afternoon they were sent off for 3D printing in f...

After a hard evenings work indoors in the warm while watching TV, these 10 seated early Victorian figures are now ready for 3D printing. ...

More progress on my new 1840s/1850s figures. Still lots of refining and detailing to be done. The seats here are drawn using plans of a s...

By using an app on my mobile I’m told I’m now able to post a blog from anywhere. So this is a test to see it it works. The image is of th...

An update on progress with more early Victorian figures. As described in my last post, as a test I drew Queen Victoria and Prince Albert,...

As mentioned before in these posts, 3D drawing and printing is gradually becoming a large part of my working day. I am nearing the point...

Firstly I finally got around to painting some of my 1/76 scale OO figures, purely because someone wanted to pay me for doing it! Set OO1 ...

I have been working for Toy and Model Soldier manufacturer 'Tradition of London Ltd' for around 28 years now, which I just realised on wr...

Thanks to the many who ordered from my webshop over the last few weeks. I did get everything in the post, (except for one order for paint...

It's ages since my last blog post, so here's a little of the things I've been up to. First of all here are the 1/152 Titanic crew, Captai...

2mm03, 2mm04, HO9, HO10,(see previous blog post) also 1/43 Mother with pram, 1/43 Mother with daughter, 1/43 Fireman Firing LH have arriv...

Back to 7mm/ft for a few new figures, with a vintage pram (finished master in photo) and probably some sort of family on a shopping trip ...

A lot of hard work over the last few days has completed the pewter masters for the following four sets - Seated Edwardians, 2mm/ft 03 and...

Recently I supplied bespoke figures for a lovely model 7mm/ft LMS Turbomotive being built by Nick Dunhill. In order to match reference p...

Despite the 10 years or so since my late fathers 85mm figures were last in production, there is still tremendous interest in them. I have...

I have now added the 7mm/ft GWR Dean Single Loco Crew to my shop, both as unpainted kits and assembled/painted. They fit into the magnifi...