Bespoke Projects

The best way to show you what we do with glass reinforced plastic is to give you examples of projects that we've worked on. Below are a series of case studies, walking through each project to give you an idea of the process involved. Take a look at the services area of our website for more information on what we do and by all means get in touch if you have project in mind - however challenging it may seem; we've worked on projects from simple repairs to start-to-finish creations and enjoy

the variety.

Swimming Pool Sheathing

A swimming pool in need of refurbishment

Here's the pool once it had been primed. It's now ready to have a 3 x 600g chopped strand mat applied

Application

The team hard at work applying the fibreglass

Gel coat

Once all the fibreglass had been applied, the trident blue polyester gel coat was applied

Finished

All ready for swimmers!

Animals for Colchester Zoo and an Egyptian Play Area

How it's done

This is how all of the animals were made: they're firstly carved from polystyrene and then clay was applied over them to obtain a better surface detail

Giraffe head

Here's an adult giraffe in the process of sculpture

A baby

Here's a baby giraffe taking shape

Carving out an elephant

An adult elephant taking shape in polystyrene

Joined together

The polystyrene is then joined together for the basic shape

First stage

Here's the first stage in the hippo's development - he's carved in polystyrene

Mould making

Moulds are made for the adult hippo. The red marks show all the flanges for the joining the various parts of the mould

Work in progress

Here's a work-in-progress shot of some sculpting

Protecting the clay

Wet rags are placed on top of the clay to stop it form drying out and cracking

Protecting the clay

Wet rags are placed over the clay surface to keep it damp and stop it from drying out and cracking

Protecting the clay

Wet rags are placed over the clay surface to keep it damp and stop it from drying out and cracking

Almost done

Here's a baby giraffe being given the final touches

Adult

Sun bear with silicon skin in situ ready for the black gel coat

Front of the bear

Here's another angle showing the front of the bear mould

Two halves

Here are the two halves of the sun bear with a black gel coat applied

Gel coat

Black gel coat applied

Release!

Here's the sunbear having been released from the mould

Another angle

The sunbear having been released from the mould

Headshot

Here's the finished head of the sunbear

Sunbear

Casually sitting on the workbench is the finished sunbear!

Finished

Here are some final shots of a giraffe family

Baby giraffe

And a final shot of the baby!

The final stage

This elephant just needs a few final additions

Baby elephant

Adult elephant

Elephant head

Look at the detail

Texture

Here's a close-up of the final texture of the elephant's skin

Walk away!

Here's a completed elephant leaving the workshop!

Half a hippo

Here's a shot of one side of the Adult hippo mould

Adult hippo

Looking quite pale - needs some serious make-up!

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Hippo in water

Here's another hippo - this time designed to be in water

Adult hippo

Pre-painting

Adult hippo

Almost complete

Small hippo

Make-up applied - ready for the off

Komodo dragon mould

Here's the mould of a kimodo dragon without the silicon skin inserted

Skin

And here's the silicon skin

Smooth

The komodo dragon has his joins smoothed out

Needs painting

The final stage - pre-painting

Komodo dragon

Decorative columns for a property in West London

Decorative column was made from wood and moulds were made from it

Fitting of the columns

5 columns fitting to the outside of a property in West London

Big Ben model rocket for a display

A silicon mound is made for 1 of 4 sides of a Big Ben rocket for a display

The mould is then gelled with a stone-coloured polyester gel coat

The four sides are complete and off to the modelmaker for the artistic elements

The four sides are joined together to start it looking like Big Ben

The model nearly finished, all put together and ready for some paint and detail

The model of Big Ben complete and ready for installation