Our little people are created by local artist Helen Egleton who has been working with us since she was a teenager.  Her artistic style has evolved so we have to ask her to make our little people more caricature than a faithful representation, as that provides better photos for our customers.

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We come up with the ideas for a new diorama, Helen comes up with some drawings and we discuss which people, animals or shop fronts to put into production.  Helen will then bring them to life in clay.

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From the clay model Martin will then create a rubber mould, which we then use to cast each little person in resin.  We have found resin to be the most resilient material to survive the weather.

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Once cast they are painted with an undercoat before the details are picked out with colourful marine paints.

 

Each model person costs approx £150 -£200 to produce.