Tarn Model Foundry

Added to the shop just now…

• TMF900 – Firefighter with extinguisher “in action”
• TMFPLANK – Spare planks for the F302 TV Tower

The shop has now been updated, and the new figure, TMF715 Photographer added. I’ll be adding the F302 TV Tower replacement planks later, as well as going through all the listings sorting out pictures and trying to update/add more informative descriptions.

TMF900, Firefighter with Extinguisher, will be ready for release within the next couple of days… Pictures to be added here as soon as the first production figure is painted.

If you experience any problems with the Tarn Model Foundry website, please let me know by emailing sales@tarnmodelfoundry.co.uk – and we’ll fix it as soon as we can.

Regards,

Lawrence

This weekend I’ll be updating the WordPress software that this site uses – I’m hoping for a painless change, but just in case you check in and find the thing not working – don’t worry, it’s just the update going badly, not the company going down the pan!

Figure news – what’s left for 2008…

• The photographer figure (TMF715) will be on sale from Sunday onwards.
• The “professional” version of the above figure (media bib and spare camera – TMF725) will be out just before xmas as well.
• I may have to remould the 3rd Rally Start Gate Marshal (TMF712) – the first half of the current mould may be unusable, but I won’t know for sure until I’ve done a test cast.
• The Firefighter figure (TMF900) is also due for first release for Sunday. More details and pictures of this figure when the first one is out of the mould.

2009 – Some of what is planned early on.

Some of you may have noticed that there is a hole in the stock numbers from 715 to 718. These are four figures that were roughly mocked up a year ago as a group of spectators for a rally theme. 715 has evolved into the amatuer photographer, and the other three, 716, 717 and 718 are to follow shortly. All three figures will be holding cameras, and you’ll be able to group them together tightly in a “joustling for position” group, part of the original idea for the four.

TMF723 and TMF724 will be mastered this month (December) and be out for Swindon. Both are “man and boy”, with 723 being “son on shoulders” and 724 being “son in front”. Both figures will be one piece resin castings with a separate metal base.

I’ll do more posting as soon as I get the update out of the way.

Regards,

Lawrence.

The “amateur” photographer mould works, and the figure comes out of it OK. However until I get the rubber in to mould the correct shaped base, it won’t be for sale just yet – but it does give me time to cast some bodies and hands whilst I’m waiting. Apols for the poor painting – I did this quickly, as the first pictures of the natural resin figure didn’t look very good.

Available now are the replacement/additional planks for the F302 TV Tower. This will be the only reproduction part I do for the tower, as I have plans to add a modern TV crew to the TMF products in early 2009.

Thanks again to all the visitors to the stand at Orpington, and the next show TMF will be attending is the Swindon show on January 4th, 2009.