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"I have always found Rainford Models to be excellent at interpreting our brief."
Rob Kay, Caterbench Product Development
Rainford Models have worked with both small, independent toy designers and major toy companies & manufacturers providing prototype toys and engineering assistance.
As can be seen from the images below we have the ability to make toy prototypes with a high level of details such as tread on tyres and wheel nuts.
As well as being suitable for product development, our prototypes can be used by the product development and marketing teams as a valuable part of the process of bringing a new toy to the market by, for example, enabling samples to be shown to focus groups before full scale production is started.
Our skills enable a rapid repsonse to requests for prototypes of a wide range of toys, please contact us for more details.
We have listed below just a small sample of the prototype toy models that Rainford have produced in the past few years.
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| In house project This inhouse project consisted of sculpted characters set in silicon rubber to produce a flexible mould and hand cast resin parts. | Client: Carterbench Product Dev. A Mega Rig Futuristic Construction play set that was totally fabricated from acrylic sheet. The components had to break down and plug in and work with the all other Mega Rigs in the range. |
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| Client: Carterbench Product Dev. Arctic Exploration Mega Rig. This prototype toy was all hand facricated from acrylic or styrene sheet. The complex tracked vehicle had a motor battery pack on the back which powered the vehicle along, but also was removable and would plug into and power other numerous features throughout the model. The submarine broke down in to various sections to form a host of different play areas
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| Client: Carterbench Product Dev. Arctic Exploration Mega Rig. A close up detailed view of the un-painted lead tracked vehicle. All parts have been fabricated by Rainford Models except for the tracks, which were taken from an existing tracked vehicle, modified to suit our needs, then vaccum cast in a simulated rubberised resin. | Client: Carterbench Product Dev. Arctic Exploration Mega Rig. This photo is of the fully finished and painted lead tracked vehicle, with just the front of the submarine (shown above) visible being towed behind this prototype of the toy. |
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| Client: Carterbench Product Dev. Mega Rig miniture robot for Artic exploration | Client: Carterbench Product Dev. Master patterns were produced and vaccum cast to produce parts in a flexible resin to simulate rubber tyres and tracks. |
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Client: Carterbench Product Dev. Although all the prototypw toys above have been aimed at boys we also make prototypes of girls toys. This model was a modular system of single pods and double pods which all had to interlock with each other. This model combined traditional model making with SLA technology. Each pod opens up on a pivot to reveal internal play areas with individual pull out components for the miniature dolls.
| Client: Carterbench Product Dev. This photo opens up a display of some of the vast range of Mega Rig prototype models we have made over many years. Left to right in the photo that opens up are :-
From all these pictures it is difficult to fully appreciate the time, skill and degree of engineering tolerance that was required time and time again to achive what one of our other clients termed fit and function. |
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 Client: Waddingtons Travel Games Cluedo Travel & Monopoly Travel games. We fabricated the main box from acrylic. The clear top playing surface was made from clear acrylic sheet with raised bosses with holes to locate the playing pieces. The Cluedo players were machined in two halves and bonded together and shaped. The Monopoly Hotels & Houses were hand cast resin and the playing pieces were profiled milled from a template 10 times larger and then hand carved. | |
For a copy of our current brochure, or to view our extensive portfolio of prototype toy work please emai us atl info@rainfordmodels.co.uk
Alternatively, if you wish to speak direct contact Andrew or David on Telephone +44 (0)1663 719119
