Over the years at Prime Function much of the design work that has been carried out for our clients has been developed through into three-dimensional form. As a consequence we gradually built up our own facility on site to produce models, mock-ups or prototypes.

In more recent times, particularly since we began vacuum casting, this modelmaking side of the business has grown dramatically to become the core of our work and we find that the projects can essentially be divided into four categories:

1	Architectural models. For this most important side of our business please see the Real Estate Models section.

2	Appearance models (i.e. block models) which are used by our clients to present new product proposals typically at sales and board meetings.

3	Precision component models to simulate a complete and accurate assembly of injection mouldings and other related parts. These are used to prove and/or trouble-shoot the design of a product prior to expensive investment in tooling.

4	Scale exhibition models of plant and machinery which have so far ranged from 1/8th to 1/200th scale. These have generally been utilised as useful and effective promotional aids on exhibition stands at trade shows where it has not been practicable to transport some of all of the actual equipment to the show.

Models are usually made in durable and stable plastic materials such as acrylic, polyurethanes etc. These will stand both time and testing conditions and we also use metals where appropriate.

Recently we have been quoting for models as quality promotional give-aways and the numbers and/or materials involved have justified us looking beyond vacuum casting at producing tooling for both plastic injection mouldings and white metal castings. Neither of these processes present a problem as we have appropriate contacts in those trades.

As you can see we are interested in the challenge of modelmaking work in any field ......the more challenging the better! As an example see the fully working flea circus illustrated below which was designed, developed and tested in just two weeks!

If you have some modelmaking to be done, just give us a realistic anticipated completion date and we believe that we will give you a very competitive price. Not only that, you will also have the satisfaction of dealing with a company with which it is a pleasure to work.

Click here for further examples of the modelmaking work we have carried out for our clients.