I’m a retired design engineer with a life long passion for card modelling.
I’m a retired design engineer with a life long [but rather bitty] passion for card modelling.
This odd passion was sparked off in early childhood when I was allowed to play with some of my cousins’ mint boxed pre-war cardboard toys that included ‘fly by string’ bi-planes and airships etc. Had they survived they would probable be worth quite a bit of money as collectors items today.
Next came the Weetabix models [printed on the backs of their cereal packets in the '50] and I must have eaten my way through a couple of tons of the things to gain the latest models. In fact apart from post war rationed chocolate, Weetabix was the only foodstuff I took interest in my parents weekly shopping and I ended up with shoe boxes full of built card models [some very annoyingly taken from the backs of the packs before all the Weetabix were eaten]. And arguements happened when either my sister or brother reached for other cereals on the breakfast table, not over who was going to get the Weetabix model but as to why they weren’t helping me empty the box. Oh how I wish that I had had the fore-sight [and capacity] to eat double the amount of Weetabix and save mint samples of all the boxes. Dozens of veteran cars, milk floats, lorries, buses,,vans & cars and even a cardboard locomotive all eventually disappeared after I left home.
Then in London vague memories of MICROMODELS came flooding back when I discovered remnants of that range in Seagull Models in South Kensingtons in the early ’70’s – and my first purchase took 6 months to build [and last approx. 6 seconds in the hands of my 3 year old son]. All have disappeared in subsequent moves.
It was Ray Morris – http://www.trspartan.freeserve.co.uk/card_models.htm – who inspired me to try creating my own card models. And as a retired design engineer living in N Wales with a love of Victorian engineering, the ‘odd’ and the elegant shapes of British steam locomotives, Welsh narrow gauge locomotives were a natural choice. As to whether the range will ever be completed – well that’s rather up to you.
Ask for a free sample and help me test build the latest.
Keith Hunt.
