MicromodelsUSA

MicromodelsUSA

S VI Cotton Blossom MicromodelsUSAIn the year 2005 Matthew Sparks started publishing under the name of MicromodelsUSA.
He wanted to continue the work of Geoffrey Heighway.
Bringing to life the models that he planned to release but never quite got around to, and some new models he hadn’t thought of yet .
These models are of a high quality, with very much similarity to the Micromodels of Geoffrey Heighway.

They also released a range of re-issues of the original Micromodels.
Gladly they are clearly marked as produced by MicromodelsUSA, so you cannot confuse them with the originals.

The website is currently offline

Here are the new published models that Heighway planned to release:

ARC VI Bridgegate
ARC XI Temple Bar
ARC XXV Maori Meeting House
ARC XXVI Maori Village
ARC XXIX Caernarfon Castle
ARC XXX United Nations Building
ARC XXXI Captain Cook’s Cottage
F III Burlington Zephyr & C.P. Huntington

PG VI Drummond, Adriatic, Jubilee
S VII Steamboat Clermont
S XVII Cheop’s Solar Barge
TR 2 London Trams

– London United “W” Class Tram
– Highgate Hill Gripper Car with Trailer
– West Ham Tram

MicromodelsUSA has also a number of own designs.

– Set AV-6 PBY-5A ‘Catalina’ Seaplanes contains two PBY-5A Catalina Flying Boats from the US Navy:

  • a 1941 rescue ‘Dumbo’ from Pearl Harbor
  • a 1943 Black Cat ‘recon’ from the Solomon Islands

This model is also published as the Catalina Flying Boat from the Modelcraft set H1 Flying Boats, but with a completely different colour scheme.

The numbering of the Arizona Memorial is a little confusing: set IXX  should be set  S XIX.

ARC XXXIV Stonehenge

scale 1 : 800

ARC XXXV Old London Phone Boxes
ARC XXXVI St. George’s Chapel

scale 1 : 1300

AV 6 2 PBY-5A ‘Catalina’ Seaplanes
– 1941 ‘Pearl Harbor’
– 1943 ‘Black Cat, Recon’
AV 7 Boeing B-17 vs Messerschmidt ME-163
OW 2 Oil “Abadan” Set

This model was published by Micromodels Ltd. as set OW.
MicromodelsUSA made a nice revision.
It is printed in colour

and a card with laser cut pieces is temporary added.

PG 9 Famous Movie Train Olton Hall
IXX

(S XIX)

USS Arizona Memorial
S XXI Battle of Hampton Roads:
C.S.S. Virginia vs U.S.S. Monitor
S XXII Bushnell’s Submarine Turtle 1776
S XXIII Robert Fulton’s Submarine Nautilus
SP I 4 Little Space Ships:
Mercury . Gemini . Apollo . Lunar Module
Micromodels Storage Binder