Modelscape was run by Bob Spooner in New Malden, Surrey. They were specialist architectural model makers and worked to a very high precision. In the early days everything was made by hand with amazing attention to detail. Later, in the 90s CNC machines and laser cutters were introduced, producing some simply amazing fine detail over quite large areas.

Bob aslo made quite a few museum displays and I produced the electronics for them. We did the Ford gallery at the Beaulieu Motor Museum amongst many others.

Modelscape also made the models for both EDF and Network Rail jobs

 

His staple work was housing developments. A developer building a few hundred houses or flats would need to try to sell them even before they were finished (or built).

Bob was commissioned to build a model of the whole development to show in the sales office.

I designed and built a push button controlled lighting system (with the help of my good friend David who wrote the code). When the plot or flat number was entered lights came on in the windows  of the selected dwelling, showing the prospective customer where it was.

Over the years we made 40 or 50 systems, many of them recycled more than once. Sadly the recession in 2008 ended this work and Modelscape is no more