Worsley Works

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Worsley Works, is a UK producer of kits for model railway carriages and locomotives owned and run from Worsley by Allen Doherty.

Worsley Works are well known in the fine scale modelling world especially in the less popular scales. They are one of the few sources for British HO scale and for some of the more unusual scales such as 3 mm scale and their range expands regularly as customers ask for new etches to be designed to meet gaps in the market.

Worsley specialise in what they describe as 'scratch aid' kits. By manufacturing only the etched brass or nickel silver components of the models they are able to produce a very wide range of kits in many scales even when demand is very low. This is hard to do with resin or plastic models where the master costs are extremely high. Assembly of Worsley Works kits, like most purely etched kits, is, challenging and requires the modeller source other components or use fillers and their own skills to build awkward areas that are hard to fabricate in etched brass. In part as a result of the popularity of building such kits other small manufacturers produce resin extras such as curved roofs specifically to make building the Worsley Works models easier.

Constructed Worsley Works kits command high prices due to the quality of the finished models.

[edit] External links

• http://www.worsleyworks.co.uk - official website

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