Smallbrook Studio

08/03/2025

Welcome Oscar to our GN15 range. Concept designed by one of our customers Aki Kato whose husband owns Kato Industries. We are pleased with the outcome of this venture.

09/02/2025

We have some exciting new products coming soon. More information soon 😁

04/02/2025

Our latest cattle waggon

04/02/2025

One of our latest models

03/10/2023

Well people, I finally had to start to take notice of all of the gypsy whispers after having had to spend a week in hospital and the upshot is that I have sold my business of Smallbrook Studio to my old friend and helper Hans Piorkowsky. Hans is taking on all my products and wishes to continue as I have for the foreseeable future.

The changeover took place at the end of this September.

I have had a lot of fun building what is now Smallbrook and had a lot of help from everyone, including yourselves on the way and have promised Hans that I am very happy to continue to master for him in the future - for a start, there are already more Emett kits in the pipeline!!

Thank you for all the support that you have given me so freely over the years and I can promise you that you have yet to hear the last from me!

Best wishes to you all Michael Rayner

11/07/2023

It has only taken me about 12 years but I have finally finished 'Buttercup' - the pride of the herd. Another Gn15 Rowland Emett accessory kit to add to my range. All I now need to do is make a 'Milking Parlour Car' for her to ride in....
I hope you approve of her. Thanks for looking. MR

23/04/2023

Something for a Quiet Sunday Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley....
Mr Neville Nightingale and his birdsong phonograph seated ready for action in the waggon to go behind my Cloud Cuckoo Coach.
The compete Gn15 kit to my usual standards of Neville and the waggon will soon be available on my website for £55.00GBP plus postage.

20/11/2022

Quite a few years ago now, I visited the tourist attraction that is attached to Cornish Gold known a Tolgus Tin, well Mill they call it now and where they have a considerable collection of the old mill machinery used in the mines to separate the mineral from the gangue. If you are interested in Cornish Mining, it is well worth a detour.
Amongst all of the equipment was a tiny waggon fitted with, for want of a better term a 'hod' that could be tipped any way the operator chose, there was no label on it to say what it was used for but It cried out to be modelled and the other day, I found the picture that I took of it whilst I was looking or something else and so here it is, my version of it, that is.
What it was used for, I haven't a clue but I think that it was probably for collecting the mineral rich material from the various separating tables around the site.
It's now up on my website and the kit complete is for sale at £16.00.
Thank you for looking. MR

21/10/2022

I have just added a new '0' gauge kit to my range. The LBSCR Single Bolster SR Diagram 1616, three of which survive preserved at Havenstreet, here on the Isle of Wight.
The kit is in my usual vacuum cast polyurethane resin and includes Dapol wheels, their screw link couplings and good clear instructions on building and painting and is complete except for glue, paint and transfers. The price, due to the screw couplings is that bit more at £35.00 each with UK postage £4.00 per order and postage to foreign parts, tracked at cost.
These vehicles were usually used in pairs but were used on the Island in rakes up to five long for carrying rail and so hence the use of screw couplings.
https://smallbrookstudio.uk/store/7mm-fine-scale-0-gauge-Single-Bolster-Waggon-Kit-p503764342

22/07/2022

Here's another beast in the stable, this time a 1/24 Mercedes 'G' class mounted on railway wheels. Again a Maisto radio controlled model which I have converted to G1, this model is close to 1/24 and is complete with its correct controller and box and is now on sale on my website in new condition. Forward and reverse and a spare control that could be used for a horn, it runs well on Chinese plastic track.

18/07/2022

Just added something a bit different to my web shop, a ready to run radio controlled Maisto 1/24 Vee Dub rail mounted minibus, it's actually larger than 1/24 and closer to 16mm due to the use of the standard Maisto floor pan. The original had a 2 metre wheelbase and the model/toy scales out at close to 1/18. It's a one off with Slater's wheels but runs on the cheap Chinese track with no problems. They are now hard to find but I think I've found a few more so I may well offer them on a more regular basis if there is any interest.

10/04/2022

Yesterday, I finally flagged up for sale on my website my new Gn15 Rowland Emett coach kit, the Cloud Cuckoo Valley Coach. It is my take on the Master's coach now at the NRM but unlike the original it does run on 00/H0 track and not just up and down a short length of angle iron plateway, mind you - no knocking that! And so there had to be differences. I have already mastered, painted and built a phonograph waggon to go behind the coach which is complete with a phonograph operator but more of that later. Also planned is a loco to go on the front, this will not be a single wheeler as on the original for the only suitable chassis for that has to be from Bachmann's 00/H0 Emily and I am nervous that the supply of these might well prove to be elusive in the future as they have been in the past. I hope you like it. The coach is shown with 'Fire Fly' as a comparison and the Hon Mrs Hamilton is not included with the coach.

16/03/2022

As was to be expected, someone asked if I could supply ELVINA with a chassis and so I have reworked the Elfin chassis as a separate kit and can now offer it in both '0' gauge and Gauge 1. It comes complete with front frame extension and cylinders, forward and reverse switch,, battery holder, the wires required and an electronic speed controller. Have fun!

11/01/2022

I have been playing around with my Elfin kit, the kit has been around for a couple of years now and I did try and mount the body onto an LGB Stanz chassis but it was too high and didn't look right.
Now I've tried it on an Otto chassis with a much better result and with the removal of the cab roof it now looks the part of a small open cab 7/8ths loco and so I've called this 'Elvina'.
I've brought the price down a bit as it is simpler and I can still offer the battery chassis for it in both '0' gauge and Gauge 1, the latter at 40mm b/b.
I'm also looking at doing a 12v chassis with pickups in both gauges for it.

24/12/2021

09/12/2021

It's taken me a while to put up a new post, I've been doing other things but my news is that I have finally mastered a kit for a 7mm fine scale '0' gauge LSWR/SR/BR(S) 10 ton Road Van (Brake Van) SR Dia: 1541. The kit is in my usual vacuum cast resin and bits of bent wire and is complete with Dapol wheel sets and their couplings and is now available for sale on my website at 49GBP. and here's a picture. More fine scale '0' gauge kits are in the pipe line....

20/10/2018

Preparing for the day ahead, this morning at Moors Valley.