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[Charlie]

I was out for a lunchtime walk, when i stumbled across this little gem of a shop tucked away under a railway arch. They stock lots of useful building materials. Their address is:
4D modelshop Ltd
         The Arches
         120 Leman Street
         London E1 8EU
http://modelshop.co.uk/

[boatmadman]

Ordered from them a number of times, always a good service


Ian

[inertia]

What are "bespoke trees", chaps?
DM

[Colin Bishop]

One offs for model railways I would imagine!

Colin

[Vintage]

What are "bespoke trees", chaps?
DM

They specialize in supplies for commercial model makers, if an architectural model requires a specific type of tree for a planning model then they'll make it for you.

Mark

[Netleyned]

Do they do bespoke dogs for the aforementioned trees??

Ned

[U-33]

Ned, I worry about you, I really do...

[TailUK]

We used to use 4D a lot back in the early 90s.  They had a much bigger shop then up by Moorfields Eye Hospital then.  Do they still do custom Photoetch? They also used to print custom transfers but they were fairly pricey!

[TailUK]

What are "bespoke trees", chaps?
DM

Their "Bespoke Trees" were shockingly expensive, especially the photo-etched one with individual leaves.  We used to buy "off the shelf trees" that were more than adequate, but you'd charge the client for the bespoke ones anyway.    

[Brian60]

Leman Street is quite famous.

For those that don't know it is where the police station that investigated the Whitechapel murders (jack the Ripper) used to be.

[Colin Bishop]

As someone who used to work in a local authority architect's department which once had a model making section, (yes, a long time ago!), the shady looking trees on the model rarely made it into the final development. Handy for getting planning permission though.

Colin

[TailUK]

Leman Street is quite famous.

For those that don't know it is where the police station that investigated the Whitechapel murders (jack the Ripper) used to be.

Leman Street was the cop shop featured in the Victorian crime drama "Ripper Street"  or as it's sometimes known "CSI: Dickens"  The interesting part for me was the portrayal of the lead character Inspector Edmund Reid.  Reid was known as a "thief taker"  and worked on the Whitechapel murders.  He was also a record breaking Aeronaut with 50 balloon ascents to his credit and became the first man in the world to descend by parachute from over 1000 feet.  He didn't catch jack the Ripper though!

[destroyer42]

I use them a lot for Brass plate, strip, Brass tube wood and plastic card and a lot more.
And what's handy it's only 5 mins walk out of my way to work.

Destroyer42

[cos918]

We used to use 4D a lot back in the early 90s.  They had a much bigger shop then up by Moorfields Eye Hospital then.  Do they still do custom Photoetch? They also used to print custom transfers but they were fairly pricey!

They do custom photo etching ,custom transfers ,3d printing and a tone of other stuff. Its not cheep


john

[Brian60]

Leman Street was the cop shop featured in the Victorian crime drama "Ripper Street"  or as it's sometimes known "CSI: Dickens"  The interesting part for me was the portrayal of the lead character Inspector Edmund Reid.  Reid was known as a "thief taker"  and worked on the Whitechapel murders.  He was also a record breaking Aeronaut with 50 balloon ascents to his credit and became the first man in the world to descend by parachute from over 1000 feet.  He didn't catch jack the Ripper though!

Yes that is where the series was based. Edmund Reid supposedly followed on from Inspector Abberline (investigator on the Ripper murders) when he left/retired from the station.

A bit of artistic license by the BBC. Has anyone seen the latest series that has been airing on Amazon Prime? hopefully the bbc will show it later this year.

[essex2visuvesi]

One of our offices was just up the road from there :)
Used to pop in for a nose regularly.
As for ripper street, a most excellent show.... Proof that we can still make a good drama when we're not too busy making britains got piles or whatever it is this week

[TailUK]

Yes that is where the series was based. Edmund Reid supposedly followed on from Inspector Abberline (investigator on the Ripper murders) when he left/retired from the station.

A bit of artistic license by the BBC. Has anyone seen the latest series that has been airing on Amazon Prime? hopefully the bbc will show it later this year.

I usually don't have a lot of time for Amazon Prime but bless them for saving Ripper Street.  If anything the third series was better than the first two.  A good running storyline and great characterisations.  Well worth a watch!

[malcolmfrary]

Proof that we can still make a good drama when we're not too busy making britains got piles or whatever it is this week

Darn it to heck, you've let the words out into the ether.  I fully expect a show of that name on channel 4 before the year is out.  Probably involving the return of Clarkson.