About us
Train and model railway enthusiasts, passionate hobbyists who are fortunate enough to know how to use tools such as CAD software, soldering irons and airbrushes… and that's when dreams begin to take shape!
Our story
Over thirty years, we assembled almost every brass kit that could possibly be soldered, always staying true to our commitment to H0 scale.
Kits by MFAL, UTECA, Linea Model, Artmodel and many others — we feared no challenge. Any assembly difficulty could be overcome, and sometimes, to make a model even more faithful to the real thing, we turned to kits by Mario Di Fabio, Pierre, Tecnomodel and others. In this way, our models became true one-of-a-kind pieces.
Yet, in the end, the feeling of frustration was always the same: “I would love to have that freight car, but nobody makes it.”
There was only one solution left: to study 2D and 3D design software and venture into photo-etching. When we held our first brass sheet in our hands, we felt an indescribable sense of freedom and power: “From today, we can make anything.”
The extensive experience we gained over the years by assembling brass kits allowed us to design our own models while already anticipating the possible difficulties during assembly.
Because the real challenge is not transferring the lines and curves of a project from paper to a computer screen, but ensuring that those same lines and curves, once transferred onto a brass sheet, can be soldered together and become a working model.
How We Build Our Models
FROM IDEA TO MODEL
Sometimes, all it takes is a photograph in a magazine, a drawing found in a book, or even someone’s story to spark the desire to create a freight car or a small locomotive.
For a long time, however, that idea seemed destined to remain just that: one of the many dreams of those who love railways. The only option was to turn it into a suggestion for the artisans, those “masters” of brass kits capable of giving shape to unique models.
This is where our need to approach CAD design first, and then 3D modelling, began. But transferring lines and curves from a drawing to a screen is not just a matter of design: it means already imagining how those shapes, once etched onto a brass sheet, will be soldered together to become a working model.
The work always begins with source research: whenever possible, the original project, followed by photographs, books, magazine articles, the Fondazione FS website, the invaluable Rotaie.it database, and material shared by fellow enthusiasts.
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