Model Scenery Supplies

Model Scenery Supplies, a North Norfolk online retailer of scale scenery

Model Scenery Supplies is a husband-and-wife, family-run business based in North Norfolk. It began in February 2013 as a small venture run alongside the couple's main business and, after growing over the following years, moved into its current warehouse. That facility has more than 1,600 square feet of floor space filled with model scenery products.

The company describes itself as a UK leading online shop for highly detailed scale model products and scenery, sourced from over 100 manufacturers around the world. It notes that many of the items it stocks are hard to find elsewhere or are available in the UK exclusively through its online shop.

What the catalogue covers

Each gauge section groups accessories by scene type, such as civil engineering, industrial, trackside and railway, town and country, walls and fencing, hedges and bushes, figures and animals, vehicle models, plants and flowers, and backscenes.

Beyond ready-made items, the shop stocks building kits from manufacturers including Faller, Metcalfe Models, Ratio Kits, Wills Kits, Busch, Auhagen, Superquick, Scenecraft, Peco, Vollmer and Kibri, among others. It also carries scratch-building materials: plastic card and styrene profiles, embossed textured sheets, building papers and card, balsa wood, brass and aluminium tube, rod and wire, and Linka brick moulds.

Scenic materials and finishing products

• Scatter, flock and foliage, including scenic earth, autumn shades, flower colours and leaves.
• Static grass, grass tufts and flowering tufts, plus landscape and grass mats for fields, meadows and ground cover.
• Model trees across standard, premium and superior ranges, pine and conifer trees, sea-foam trees, and tree armatures and kits.
• Ballast, coal, sand and stone, along with cork products such as cork bark rock faces, cork sheets and track underlay.
• Rocks and rock faces, plaster rock moulds, and water, ice and snow effects.
• Paints, glues, adhesives, fillers, weathering and colouring effects, and modelling plasters.
• Craft foam in grey and white, foam boards and blocks, and terrain-forming materials including track risers and inclines.

Wargaming and terrain

A separate wargaming section covers 10mm–15mm and 20mm–28mm model kits, 28mm wargame accessories, buildings, trenches and barricades, walls and fences, and war building and scene kits. It also lists gaming scenic and scenery products, grass and ground cover, stones, rocks, trees, bushes and hedges, gaming static grass tufts, and basing packs. Brands represented in this area include Javis Gaming Materials, All Game Terrain and The Army Painter.

Customers and applications

The company states that it supplies both industries and hobbyists. Its listed customer groups include architectural and civil engineering practices, film and television production, stage and theatre, special-effects companies, model railway and wargaming enthusiasts, diorama modellers and school projects.

Brands stocked

The shop's brand list is extensive and includes Albion Alloys, AMMO by Mig Jiménez, Ancorton, Art Printers ID Backscenes, Atlas, Bachmann Industries, Berkshire Junction, Conflix, Craftline Models, Dapol, Deluxe Materials, Exclusive First Editions, Expo Tools, Footpath Scenes, Gaugemaster, Graham Farish, Heki, Juweela, Kestrel Designs, Knightwing, Lars op t Hof, Lytchett Manor GEM, Marklin, Merten, Model Scene, MP Scenery Products, Natural Scenics, Noch, Oxford Diecast, P&D Marsh, Pegasus, Preiser, Proses, Redutex, Renedra, Sankey Scenics, Scalology, Scene-A-Rama, Tasma Products, Tiny Signs, Vantage Modelling Solutions, Walthers, War World Scenics, Wiking, Wills Kits and Woodland Scenics, among others.

Product examples in the catalogue

Listings shown include Wills plastic sheets for scratch building (granite setts, dressed stone and wood planking), Noch model hedges in light and dark green, Javis white plasticard sheets, Berkshire Junction EZ Line for simulating wires and ropes, and Footpath Scenes alligator and crocodile figures made in the UK.