Brooklin Blog
30 OCT - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
“Double, Double, Toil and Trouble. Make sure you stay in your socially-distanced bubble” Well we are all feeling a little fearful at the moment but with Halloween upon us things could get really scary. So, sticking to the traditional spooky-scary-morbid theme of the season, we bring you a look at some of our hearses from the CSV range. Don’t have nightmares *maniacal laughter*
23 OCT - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
Is it that time of the week already? Blimey, they say that time flies when you are having fun - we must enjoy our jobs.
16 OCTOBER - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
HAPPY FRIDAY, EVERYONE!!!!!!This week has been very productive, as always. Click on through the photos to see what we have been making.
BROOKLIN AND THE MELS DRIVE IN RESTAURANT
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
In 1947 Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs opened the first drive-in restaurant in San Francisco, Mels drive-in. At that time the drive-in restaurants were just beginning in America and the nice California weather was ideal for year round carhop service. It consisted of a large parking for 110 cars and a building with a dining room capacity of 75 people. The cooker was able to turn out 180 hamburgers per...
25 SEPTEMBER - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
Time to take another look behind the scenes to see what we have been making this week. Start your (rather large) engines.
18 SEPTEMBER - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
I say, you there, what day is it? Christmas?” No. But you’d be forgiven for thinking it was as the supermarkets have all of the festive chocs ’n’ treats out. We’ve not even had bonfire night yet. Or Halloween. Speaking of which, come and take a look at some people who are on fire…and some that are scary.
11 SEPTEMBER - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
Welcome back. This week we have been working on a model of an engine and finishing off our new model of the Alfa Romeo TZ2. We have more Alfa Romeos coming up over the next few weeks so keep checking back with us.
04 SEPTEMBER - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
Well hello, nice to see you again. It’s all happening here at Brooklin, lots of new things for you to see. Come on in, the water is fine……just don’t ask why it is warm……
28 AUGUST - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
Hellooooooooo. That was extra long because the weekend is too. 3 days off in the …oh rain. Ah well, you can’t win them all. Let’s have a look at what we have been doing this week. Only a few photos as we still have projects on the bench which we can’t show you yet. Tally Ho.
21 AUGUST - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
Hello there. We have so many things that we are working on and we would love to show you but we can’t….yet. Maybe next week, so make sure you come back then.
BROOKLIN AND THE 1949 BUICK ROADMASTER (BRK10)
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
Numerous variations of the 1949 Buick Roadmaster exist, due to a wide variety of shades for body color. Although generally thought of as being dark metallic grey, shades of dark silver, green, grey, violet have widely been seen. To increase the variation quantity even more, there are two castings of the Buick Roadmaster, early models with a small hood ornament and later versions without. It might be correct to say...
14 AUGUST - THE WEEKLY DIARIES
Posted by BROOKLIN MODELS
Another hot week in the Brooklin models factory and another sweaty bunch of model makers…..Euuuggghh. Don’t worry, we clean the models before they get sent out to you.