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At Funky Lemon we offer a wide range of services within design and model making.
Our expertise lies in the creation of premium architectural models at competitive prices. By integrating our extensive experience with creative concepts across various modelling styles, we provide an exceptional service that delivers unique insights and innovative solutions to ensure your model is crafted to the highest standards.
Architectural Model Makers - Crafted to any scale
Our expertise lies in the creation of premium architectural models at competitive prices. By integrating our extensive experience with creative concepts across various modelling styles, we provide an exceptional service that delivers unique insights and innovative solutions to ensure your model is crafted to the highest standards.
We are a well-established model-making firm located in Ipswich, is renowned for delivering high-quality models while providing a personalised and attentive service. Our expertise lies in the creation of architectural models; however, we also manufacture models for a diverse range of industries and applications. This extensive experience distinguishes us from our competitors.
Every project presents a distinct array of requirements and challenges to address; our knowledgeable team is eager to engage with you to identify the best solutions. We're used to having to create something out of the ordinary, we always find a way to produce a high-quality model on time.
We are SafeContractor Approved
This means that you can feel assured that we are are a safe and responsible company. This involves ensuring that all paperwork is complaint with current legislation and that processes are in place to ensure health and safety is handled in the best way possible.
High-Quality Architectural Models
We specialise in producing high quality architectural models to a budget that is affordable. Combining our experience and innovative ideas in all styles of model making, we are able to offer an unparalleled service, unique insight and ideas to produce your model in the best possible way.
Why detail is important to an architectural model
Our housing development models and architectural models provide exceptional value for money due to our commitment to innovation and originality. Instead of following trends or replicating existing techniques, we strive to create a unique approach that sets us apart from others. This enables us to incorporate significantly more detail without increasing the cost. The architectural models showcased on our website stand out from those of other model making companies due to our unique construction techniques. Unlike many other companies, we provide close-up shots of our projects, allowing viewers to appreciate the intricate details and craftsmanship. While some model makers may cut corners or omit details to save time, we take pride in our attention to detail, especially when it comes to walls, fences, and other hard landscape elements.
Our commitment to quality is evident in the realistic and informative representations of these features in our models. The taught technique adopted by many see them simply spraying a flat strip of material adding a stipple effect and calling it a wall. Yes, it does represent a wall or fence but it’s not a convincing or informative representation of a wall. You gain little insight or knowledge from a low quality model approach such as this. When we choose to model a fence design we actually make a scale version of the fence design, including vertical planks, horizontal rails, wooden or concrete posts, wood or concrete gravel boards and even trellis topped designs. If you plan to have three different fencing designs across a site why wouldn’t you show these different fence types? We include them all.
A model should inform and excite a potential customer leaving little to the imagination. After all we are presenting the possible buyer a glimpse into the future by modelling a dream home they aspire to live in and raise a family so a housing estate development should be bright, colourful and uplifting and definitely not bland and boring. In a perfect world the buyer wouldn’t need to ask the sales team questions regarding materials used as it would be clear and obvious in an accurately modelled high detail construction.
Why choose us?
- Skilled modelmakers: We are greatly experienced having produced models for virtually all sectors of the model making industry; architectural models, planning models, display models, prototype models, dioramas, presentation models, point of sale and much more. From working on such vastly differing projects and model types we can confidently say that we can overcome any problem and enjoy the challenge of doing so. We like to utilise our experience and produce a model using the most advanced techniques available to produce a high quality model at a price most find it hard to compete with.
- Highly detailed: Our models are meticulously crafted to guarantee precision and genuineness in every aspect. We can produce you a model which is unmatched in the level of detail, crafted with passion and will accelerate your sales “off plan” before a brick has even been laid. All of this at a price point which is hard to beat.
- Safe Contractors: We are proud to hold the safe contractors accreditation which ensures we can conduct ourselves in a safety conscious manner when visiting on your site for any potential installs.
- Architectural & Design insight: We have a deep understanding and experience with architectural models & design aesthetics which enhances our capabilities to work with technical documentation. Our degree level designers will work tirelessly to ensure your design is perfected.
Benefits of an architectural model:
- Improve visualisation: What better visual aid to have in the sales room than the completed project in full detail to use as a sales aid. Customers are more easily attracted to such models because they can visualize the plan much better than if it were in another format, such as a drawn sketch.
- Demonstrate concept: It is essential to communicate intricate ideas to a broader and varied audience. By utilising visual aids, individuals can easily grasp the essence of the concept through the model. Presenting your designs via a model is the most effective method to articulate your concepts and garner increased backing from prospective clients.
- Faster Sales: Experts and statisticians have noticed an acceleration of sales among constructions that use architectural models as a marketing tool.
What do we require to begin designing / constructing your next architectural model?
- A site plan with boundaries and levels across the site
- Topographic and landscaping plan of the site
- Plans and elevations of all buildings to be built
- House / plot material schedule
- Hard and soft landscape material schedule
We understand each project may be at a varying stage of design development and producing a model which would allow you to sell off plan can present more challenges if the full site drawing pack is not available. This doesn’t mean it cannot be done it just means a different approach may be adopted utilising the information available.
No matter what stage you are at with the development please do not hesitate in getting in touch. We have in the past produced architectural models from just Google earth and Google map views. The fully laser cut, recycled card model, which can be seen in the photographs above, was produced using Google earth views of existing buildings which surround the new development.
UV optically clear model display case joints
Present your model in the best possible way with a high-quality display case. By utilising advanced UV curing adhesive technology, we achieve a transparent finish that ensures a robust bond to the case joints. These clear joints allow for optimal light transmission, showcasing your model in it's finest form, making them ideal for architectural models.
We offer UV cases as a standard, we can supply alternatively constructed cases at a lower cost, however we recommend a UV case for any high detail model.
