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Suppliers and Makers

No real content in this page, just lots of links to those who make and supply Miniature Buildings of all kinds. Now and in the past. Plus components, magazines etc.
As always, feel write to MiniatureBuildings if there are links I have got wrong or if you feel there are others I should include.

David, January 2020

Sorted by subject, rather than alphabetically.

Ben Taggart, Modelmaking and Design Lovely house portrait models.

Britains - these days very little but more in the past

Bryan Frost

Cynosure of Exeter - dolls houses

Dolls House World - UK dolls house magazine

Hugar - a name from the past

Jeremy Collins of Gable End Designs - no longer online

King and Country - unusaul military pieces

MRS

Playmobil

Precision Products

Richard Stacey, now Stacey's Miniature Masonry - miniature bricks, tiles etc in a variety of scales.

Scalescenes - UK card models of railway and other prototypes

Stacey's Miniature Masonry - miniature bricks, tiles etc in a variety of scales. Formerly 'Richard Stacey'

Stoneworks American manufacturer offering real stone pieces and a range ofreusable formwork and casting masters for use with their Quikrete® Vinyl Cement product - modelling miniature buildings in cement (www.rrstoneworks.com).

The Mr Finneth

at 'Garden Trains Information'. 'British Outline Building' kits (sold by 'Garden Railway Specialists' of Princes Risborough,

www.grandadstoys.fsnet.co.uk/ 24thhouse.htm

A big range of central European 1/24 buildings is the Pola brand, which is part of the Faller stable.  For my taste they all look a bit too clean and shiny but they can always be weathered.  My favourite, and the most exportable to other landscapes, was the "timber storage place", an open fronted shed complete with stacks of cut timber     .      View their catalogue via the website of US retailer  http://www.charlesro.com/pdf/pola2004.pdf

I've not seen the British Outline Building kits in the flesh but they certainly look to be very attractive as displayed on the Garden Railway Specialists website http://www.grsuk.com.  I particularly like the Welsh Farm cottage. Unfortunately the way their site is constructed does not make it possible to display any extracts here for you.   Are GRS the manufacturer here or just a retailer? 

Freelance Buildings  a limited range of UK trackside prototypes , with a couple of stone cottages.

Windows and doors in this scale are produced by Houseworks (US) - wooden , Precision Products (US) - plastic, Garden Railway Specialists of Princes Risborough (UK), Model Building Supplies (Canada) .

Until recently another source of good quality plastic components was Grandt Line but they have been taken over by The San Juan Model Co and it is as yet unclear if the architectural range has survived. I still have a small stock from my abortive venture many years ago into what we then knew as 'mail order'. (US) -plastic , 

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Precision Products windows      Grandt Line doors US firm Houseworks and some components from Real Good Toys - who no longer supply house kits. Hobbies.  However the following text from 'thesprucecrafts.com' provides a bit more detail: "1:16 dolls house scale (sometimes called 3/4 scale) was a common scale for play dolls houses from the 1930s to 1950s and has now been revived by the Brinca Dada toy company for their new range of modern dolls house toys. ..... Collectible houses and furniture in this scale include pieces from Tri-ang (a British Manufacturer), Marx (Little Hostess, Amanda Ann) and Petite Princess (by Ideal, marketed in the US)." 1/18th Again according to thesprucecrafts.com : "Lundby dolls houses made in Sweden, As always, please e-mail Miniature Buildings if you have something to add. Comments, criticisms, extra thoughts, pictures, or even complete articles for inclusion in the Miniature Buildings site are all welcome. Or if you would like to be added to my mailing list to hear when a new article is published.