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The Craft of Scratchbuilding

Building Clyde

Panelled Coaches in Styrene Sheet (Parts  1   2   3   4)

Liverpool (Gauge 0 Guild Gazette)

Liverpool (LNWR Journal)

Drawings and information sheets

Dividing head for Sherline mill

Setup for cutting spokes

Piercing saw blade sizes
Bending rolls (the Model Engineer version)

Setup for cutting flares

Traders (supplies)

ABC Gears  

Suppliers of motors and gearboxes. They have also provided me with customized gearboxes 

Metalsmith  

Nickel silver and other materials, also specialist tools

Alan Harris

O Gauge wheel castings - the very best. Unfortunately seems to have stopped trading

Slater's 

Wheels, styrene sheet, and lots more 

Scale Hardware 

Miniature nuts, bolts, rivets, etc, in brass, nickel silver, and stainless steel, down to 0.5 mm diameter. Excellent mail order 

Grandt Line 

Plastic moulded bolt heads, rivet heads, etc and many other components

Severn Mill Nameplates

Etched nameplates and loco plates

HPC Gears 

Gears

Muffett 

Gears 

Traders (tools)

Sherline

Lathe, mill, and a host of accessories. Lots of information about machining, not specific to their products

Carter Tools

Mostly a collection of links, mainly for Taig products, but also supply indexing plates for dividing heads 

Cousins

Watchmaking tools and supplies - many useful. Some reasonably priced, some horrendous

Hemingway Kits 

Kits for building lathe and mill accessories 

Tiranti 

Casting in whitemetal and resin

Model Engineering
Lathes 

Everything you ever wanted to know - and then some 

Chris Heapy

Workshop projects, tips, techniques, ... [Site seems to have disappeared - does anyone know anything about it?]

Home Workshop

A site for model engineering sales, wants, and information requests

Shopswarf Index 

Compendium of model engineering information 

Related sites
Gauge O Guild 

 

G1MRA

 

2.5 in Gauge 

 

Gauge 3 Society 

 

HMRS

Historical Model Railway Society 

Maritima and Mechanika 

Miniature workshop tools and accessories, and very fine ship models 

Raymond Walley

O Gauge model maker