About Us
12A Models was founded in 2023 by BR Southern Region and London Transport modeller Kim Durose.
From a very early age, Kim was thrust in to the model railway world with a 6×3′ N-gauge layout built for him by his very talented grandad. Kim attributes his love of scratchbuilding squarely upon his grandad. He was, and at 100 years old, still is the modeller he admires the most. This is a man who built a class 58 out of plasticard before Hornby had a go, and converted a class 47 to a very convincing class 60 just because one member of the class shared its name with his bungalow…..
Kim’s earliest memories are wondering why his Lima 31 was so wide and tall and smelt so funny, and why the Lima Deltic sat a scale 4 feet above the underscale Mk1 coaches. As a teenager, Kim would jump on his BMX bike and pedal like mad to Constructeon Models in Ripley, Derbyshire to spend his pocket money and paper round earnings on Peco wagon chassis kits for scratchbuilding.
In 2020 during lockdown he bought his first FDM 3D printer out of idle curiosity and with the 3D CAD design skills from the day job as a packaging and print designer, started to design components for other modellers to use and enjoy.
Kim embraces the use of new technologies to create his models and kits, employing hybrid FDM and SLA 3D printing techniques, card plotter and laser cutting, 2D and 3D CAD.