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British castles and historic buildings
Hello. I want to know if there are card models of the following British monuments:
The Tower of London, complete, not just the main tower Buckingham Palace Windsor Castle Hampton Court Balmoral Palace Westminster Abbey As we have carefully followed Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II funeral, we thought it would be very nice to build scale models of these documents. Thanks |
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Interesting question. I am hoping someone can help identify decent models of those. I seem to remember a good Westminster Abbey, a facade of Buckingham Palace and a very small and overly simplified Windsor, but I would like to see quality models
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All of these, I think with the exception of Buckingham Palace and Balmoral, are available as Micromodels, as designed and sold by Geoffrey Heighway in the 1950 - 1960 period. Original copies are hard to find, but there are suppliers of copies in the UK,USA and I think the Netherlands. I’m sure there are more suppliers out there!
Heighway was a talented artist and his models are little gems, although I think they improved in quality over the years. I started Windsor Castle (an early one) during COVID lockdown but gave up as I wasn’t happy with the graphics - but I might restart now that I can edit the graphics somewhat. |
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The ones I know about are
Tim |
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Thank you very much for your replies and for your information about the Micro-Models. Yes, these nice reproductions but, perhaps due to its size, are not really detailed replicas like those models of other subjects available from Schreiber, Instant Durable and others. It is a real pity that these most important buildings and monuments have not been tackled by one of these important printers.
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I don't know of a model of Balmoral, but I can add Buckingham Palace to Tim's list.
It's by Heritage Models and is similar to the micromodels but a bit bigger. http://worldofmicromodels.nl/micromo...ritage-models/ cheers Mike |
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Thank you very much. Excellent models.
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Hello Petesteinthe Heritage Modelsare not really Micromodels. They are smaller in size but I found them pretty accurate if you can get hold on them, they have been out of print for a long time.
Sometimes you find them on bidding platforms They published Tower of London (Complete and far better than the Micromodels model), York Minster,St. PAul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. The HamptonCourt Model is the largest Micromodels model ever. It'salso the only kind ever published. So the choice is limited. I have neverheard a model of Balmoral existed, but found other cathedrals, Rupert Cordeux's cathedrals are pretty famous and very recommendable if you are interested in such. |
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Thanks for such nice information. Sorry that they are no longer available.
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They look really beautiful and realistic beeing so detailed and (especially The Tower) representing the complete complex with its surroundings!
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