Model making plays a critical role throughout the development process, starting with a crude prototype to prove that the idea ' works ' through successive refinements to works-like, looks-like models good enough to present at toy fair and on to fully engineered models accurate enough for the tool-maker to use as his benchmark.

To provide this constant demand Seven Towns relies on its own trained and toy-oriented specialist model makers who work long hours in the company's well appointed workshop.

As the work load often exceeds our model-making capacity we also use a select network of high quality model shops in England, Japan and the U.S.A.