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I must apologise to any regular viewers who have wondered why nothing's happened here for so long.  I've just been very busy building layouts.  I still am!!  I have work coming out of my ears so updating the site has had to come (an admittedly very poor) second to working for paying customers.  Sorry!  And yes, I really do have a full book until well into 2019.  At least.  No time to write another book for now, either.  Lots of material though, so another book and a few mag. articles in due course, I trust.  Until then, I'm afraid, it's just nose to the grindstone. 
But I love my work !!!  Great, innit? 

indent"Making Model Railway Buildings" covers everything from helping the beginner in choosing and using commercially-made 'ready to plant' pre-finished buildings, through the basic knife-wielding skills needed to make a good job of a classic cardboard kit, and then on to scratchbuilding in cardboard and other materials, so enabling the reader to make accurate scale models of specific vernacular architectures.  There are excellent descriptions of the use of levels of detail and relative colour, and chapters on walls, roofs, detailing and even the lighting of model buildings, as well as explanations of how best to present them in the landscape.   With over 600 colour photos throughout, of both the output of the author's third of a century of professional model-making and of some of his inspirational subjects, it is these illustrations of some of the minutiae of small detail which provides so much of what makes his models indivdual, it can truly be said that this is an educational work by way of reference as well as of technique.  Naturally, we heartily recommend that you go out and buy a copy at your earliest opportunity so that you can join in the 'buzz' which the publication of this book is bound to create among those who truly look for excellence in their modelling.

l indent With the recet change of webhost, the whole online questionnaire needs a re-vamp as the server used different scripts to the previous version.  I have to learn these, so it may be a while before it's up and running again.  [Sorry!]  You can always ring me, however: 01963 363544  'Nuff said!

l indent Order book full until  2016. Work continues on a considerable back-order book which, along with a couple of new orders this year, means that we will be unable to begin any new model projects until after next year, at the earliest.  Design projects will be considered (it's always nice to have something to do while the glue or paint dries), but with a lot of commissions already accepted and in hand we apologise, but we must concentrate on those for the forseeable future.  Sorry!  (Nice to be so busy, mind!)  We are happy to consider accepting interesting new projects for production at some future stage, but if you want it soon, sadly we will be unable to help you..  However, good thins are usually worth waiting for, and I can't see Mr McMillan retiring just yet awhile... [Nov. 2014 A J Mc]

l indent Site update will now await a complete re-hash in due course.  I have absolutely no idea when that will be but, since work continues to arrive without updating it, it could take a while...  With so many layouts in hand (I currently - at the end of 2014 - have work lined up until well into  2016 at least),  it is inevitable that existing customers come before potential new ones.  Therefore, while I am very well aware that this site has not seen any significant upgrades for several years, nor indeed any significant additions even longer, I do owe it to existing customers to get on with their jobs so, while in an idle moment I might add a few photos here and there, there will not be any significant additions to this site until 2016 at the earliest. Sorry! 

Since the last proper "upgrade" to the site took me three month's solid work, and another one could take at least the same if not more (there's a lot more to upgrade this time!), I am sorry to say that any substantial changes have had to be postponed indefinitely!  It may happen one day, but not for quite a while. . .

Andy McMillanindent

indentIn a departure from many of the jobs I have done recently, this one is an N-gauge recreation of modern practice; so modern in fact that it is "Post Railtrack"!  Since these photos were taken the whole layout has been completed and the townscape over the hidden sidings has been finished too.
indentThis model railway was about as "state of the art" as it was possible to get. This had its advantages as if you wanted to model something in particular you just went out and has a look for it !  The just-mentioned signals are a case in point; it was not so many years ago that signals were stainless steel and black; then they became pale grey and now, under "Network Rail" they are a pretty dark grey, where they've had time to repaint them, that is.  Therefore, on this layout some are in pale grey and some are in dark grey.  But enough for now!   Just have a look at these  photos.  I have taken many, many more, I just need to find time to load them up...