Shoreleave Models

Posted updates regarding Wagonmaster

Wagonmaster and Mountaineer: Ready for Your Workbench, with a Little Help from the Community Mountaineer The Wagonmaster and Mountaineer Style locomotives are now essentially ready for release, which is a rather satisfying sentence to finally write. After spending so… Read more: Wagonmaster and Mountaineer Product Development Program

From Idea to Tiny Quarry Loco: Developing Our First De Winton Models EBAY LINK    DeWinton Style Vertical Boiler Loco 009 High Definition Resin – Toma chassis | eBay UK After a long development process, the first in a… Read more: DeWinton Vertical Boiler Locomotive Close to Release – First images and Test Runs

Today we are exploring some DeWinton style locomotives that are based on real locomotives but with there own slight variations!                                       … Read more: DeWinton Customs…… A basis in Reality

What started off as a fairly straightforward De Winton project has, perhaps predictably, started to spiral into something much bigger. The original idea was simply to produce a De Winton locomotive that looked right, ran well and captured the… Read more: Vertical Beauty’s and beasts

Its official! Shoreleave’s bearings went into production today with the first batch of 1000 arriving shortly for testing

One of the smaller projects I have been working on for the quarry layout is creating a range of OO9 quarry workers. The aim is to make figures that actually look like they belong in an industrial narrow-gauge setting… Read more: Not just locomotives and wagons – Creating Quarry Workers for OO9

A huge shout out to Colin for sending me his video of the Kerr Stuart Geared Steam locomotive he received and painted recently. The Kerr Stuart uses the Kato 109 – a favourite of the 009 modeller.  I like… Read more: Kerr Stuart in the wild!

The kids have been learning some modelling techniques and have come up with some concept ideas for derelict or scrapped locomotives. Some are fantasy pieces while others are base don known locomotives. At this stage they are just concepts… Read more: Its all a load of Scrap

We are currently looking at becoming a stockist for 009 bearings as we need to buy them to supply with our own wagons. The last few months of development has shown that good bearings are essential for 009 wagons.… Read more: Bear(ing) with me

SOLD OUT – RETURNS IN OCTOBER! A highly detailed OO/OO9 scale model inspired by one of the most unusual surviving steam road vehicles in Patagonia – the Mann steam lorry preserved near Punta Arenas in southern Chile. This is… Read more: MANN STEAM LORRY

It is probably no secret by now that we have been spending a considerable amount of time working on a range of De Winton vertical-boiler locomotives and similar Vertical Boiler Locos. They have received a remarkable amount of attention… Read more: Developing the De Winton – Small Locomotive, Big Challenge

I’m always genuinely excited to see the painted examples people create from our models. I’ll be the first to admit that painting isn’t exactly my strongest skill, so seeing one of our plain grey resin prints transformed into a… Read more: Sentinel Chain LOCO in the WILD

Today i’m working on a test wagon concept based on a Orenstein & Koppel style Tipper Wagon. Its in the early stages. The main focus point is how to produce the outside frame wheels effectively…. watch this space