A little blast from the past here with this gorgeous cottage in the Cotswolds. Such a beautiful subject with lots of nice little details. If you’ve got a house you’d like recreating in miniature, drop me a line Examples of my previous work on my website lnrmodels.co.uk

There’s some kind of real charm in making models of British Suburbia. It’s only small, but this little one is one of my favourites of the year…

And just so you don’t get bored of me harping on about the tv programme, here’s a snow scene I made over the weekend …

Presented by national treasure and the absolute legend that is Sara Cox, we’re pleased to announce that The Marvellous Miniature Workshop airs from Monday 1st December at 2pm on BBC ONE @bbciplayer #TheMarvellousMiniatureWorkshop #SaraCox #iPlayer

Hello chaps - greenery installed and of course, a little washing line…

Well it’s official! The new cover for Evie Wood’s brand new book, The Violin Maker’s Secret has finally been revealed, and I can proudly say uses a model I was commissioned to build by Harper Collins and designed by the talented Lucy Bennett.

Some final pictures of the Fast and Furious House…

Proud to be finally able to share the secret project I’ve been involved with The Marvellous Miniature Workshop is coming soon to BBC One and BBC iPlayer : @bbciplayer  #TheMarvellousMiniatureWorkshop #SaraCox #iPlayer

t’s early morning in Los Angeles/West Yorkshire….and Dom is about to wake up and realise his house has been transported to the hills of God’s own county… (Model of Dom Toretto’s house from the Fast and Furious, posed against the backdrop of an early autumn sky)

Just a little run round of the current progress…

Further progress on the Toretto house…

My latest project is bringing this wooden planked building from The Fast and Furious Series to life…

Recently finished this room set at 1/12 scale for a promo for an agency promoting The house of Guinness

Recently finished and delivered model of a family home.

I’ve been working a lot with the bigger scales just recently and this is the latest in the abandoned series of dioramas. I’ve been live streaming the building of this one with viewers giving suggestions of what to add. Next weekend, I’m going to attempt to add a rusty wheelbarrow…

My May went like this - an awesome month with a massive chunk missing that I just can’t show you right now. Let’s just say it was a fantastic time, full of stress, laughs and the most amazing people. I did manage to get some other stuff done too…

Good morning folks - I’m still spamming the work in progress on this little diorama/vignette. I’m really enjoying the bigger scale.

Abandoned Cooper’s hut diorama in 1:24 scale . Work in progress- still a bit to finish …

A 1/24scale barrel hand made with laser cut staves and bands…

Working on a 1:24 scale shed

The latest in my Doorway series of 1:12 scale vignettes. I’m calling this one ‘Burnt Offerings’

Moody… 😂

Talking of ferns @24ergast.bsky.social - this is now done. If you want to own a piece of LNR Models original art, get in touch- it’s yours for the right price ☺️

I’m really loving working on this - almost finished now. It’ll be up for sale soon.

I’m really enjoying this excursion Into 1:12 scale…

Model delivery. It’s moments like these that’s why I always hand deliver…

Started making a little fun project just as a break from the commissions (and the secret project I can’t tell you about) on Sunday and carried on with it on the live stream last night. It was good to chat with the group again and just have a bit of fun.

Stone is definitely my favourite type of house to model, and this one was such fun. Modelled from foamex, the walls were hand scribed with a roof tile pattern etched on the Cricut cutter and painted with acrylics.

Yesterday’s laser cut ferns have now been enhanced with a little extra painting which blends them into the landscape better. The towpath is really coming along. The canal won’t be that toxic looking - I was just getting rid of excess paint 😂

As @dibsyardshuntinglayout says, at the end of a modelling session, there’s nothing like a good stand at stare, before realising you’ve wasted 10 minutes you could have been closer to going to bed….

One of my absolute favourite building types is stone, and this was a lot of fun to make - all the stonework hand carved and painted. Not many production photos taken with this one. In retrospect, the photography is a bit let down by the car which I hadn’t weathered at this point.

Just a little over 5 years since I posted a picture of this little demo model I made and asked if anyone would be interested in their own home in miniature. I haven’t stopped building since - from a little thatched cottage to a massive dolls house to a tiny shed…

A slight tangent from my usual pictures of recreations of real homes in miniature- this was a fun project for Halloween , making a spooky cottage in a slightly bigger scale (the how to video is on my YouTube channel)

Morning folks. These pictures show the assembly of the ornamental dormer windows on top of the main house before they were added to the facia and then installed. Laser cut from 2mm mdf and 0.6mm laser board they were built up in layers before adding the window frames behind.

I also light my models, if asked (and this gives an opportunity to see Chester the cat in the bedroom…)

It was a bit of a murky day when I took the ‘glamour shots’ for this one, but the moody skies give the model a good context. Coming down low to be on eye level with the scale and matching the tree line, sells the scene…

Another example of how coming down to an ‘eye level’ view with the camera and shooting outside with sunlight, further enhances the illusion of reality… I approached this model build with excitement and trepidation - so much detail and only photos to go off…

On the workbench vs the finished model…

Following the theme of yesterday’s post, here’s a few pictures of when I took my giant inflatable hand and tweezers to France to pose next to this huge model of a small chateau…

Original paintings for sale

The best compliment I can receive with my work is ‘I thought that was real’ but I do wonder sometimes, despite my user and business name, if people scroll on by thinking ‘meh, it’s just a photo of a house’? So now and again, I throw in a photo with my hand in 😂 Anyway ...

We’ve got movement at Eastwood…

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Strangely, my camera roll is full of photos of model houses and model railway work… sharing this photo of the recent build waiting to be collected…

I love the way the sunlight illuminates the landscape here…

Wasn’t happy with the abrupt edge to the path here (first pic) so hacked it back to a gentler slope with more scattered bushes…

Shall we have a little look down the driveway? Tarmac surface is literally a dense foam sheet painted charcoal grey…