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Technical Model Making. Covers a broad range of areas and can cover parts of nearly all model making. I have highlighted below some of the areas where technical model makers are used to complete the projects for our clients.
Toys – helping our children to understand the spaces and form that create our environment. These are created by design first, then the model making starts. There are often many different types of model makers involved, Technical model makers, sculptural model makers, prototype model makers. The job of the technical model maker is the sharp geometric work that is required in the project. For example a technical model of a tank is a ridged form that would be required to be milled and turned on a lathe. Technical Modelling allows us to get the sharp crisp shapes and the toy is created as the real object is.
Railway models. Toys for both children and adults. These are produced at many levels, but the main area that concerns us as Technical model maker is the commercially produced white metal, or injection moulded kits or fully assembled models that are sold in the high street shops. Skilled technical model makers are used to produce a perfect scale replica. Prototype modelling of this sort is used to create the first model from which the tools are made then production can start. Some of these master models are being made a from CAD drawings that are then out put by stereo lithography or CNC milling. This 3D modelling is at the for front of how the industry is progressing. These are the forms of model making that the Locomotive models are created. The scenery is made in part by sculpting and in part by technical modelling. For example a tunnel entrance would be milled out of resin, where the banks surrounding it would be sculpted.
We can also use the technical modelling in the area of product prototype models as in consumer products, such as phones, eating utensils, decorative giftware, and many more besides. The technical model maker can also be used in the Museum model, the exhibition model, architectural model, marine model and may other areas.
