ModelU June update adds figures, crew packs and workshop details
ModelU’s June drop added 21-plus figures and scenic packs, from workshop machines and garage crews to a 9-cow cattle load and OO Manning Wardle crew.
ModelU's June batch looked less like a single new model and more like a shopping list for finishing a layout properly. Posted on June 8, the release brought at least 21 new arrivals into the range, including 27200 Inspection Ramps x4, 1306 Classic Mechanics, 1307 Modern Mechanics, 27111 Workbench Accessories, 99011 Cattle Wagon Bundle, 99010 Machinists and Machine Tool Bundle, 99009 Machine Shop Bundle, 11416 and 11417 Manning Wardle L Class crew packs, and 80304 OO Rapido Manning Wardle Late Crew.
The strongest additions for depot and shed builders came from the workshop side. ModelU folded licensed designs from Richard Slate of Mudmagnet Models into the line-up, and the Bench Drill and Fly Press product pages both said the CAD was licensed from Mudmagnet. The June list also covered vertical and turret mills, a pillar drill, lathe, donkey saw, bandsaw, roller stands, workbench packs 1 and 2, and workbench accessories, giving an engine shed, machine shop or industrial yard the sort of clutter that makes a scene look worked rather than staged. ModelU also said its scene bundles were designed to populate layouts quickly and cost-effectively, with a 10% saving over buying the individual packs separately.
Street scenes got the same practical treatment. The Classic Mechanics pack was aimed at garages from the 1940s through the 1970s and included a mechanic on a creeper trolley, a standing mechanic holding a cloth, a mechanic leaning in to inspect a repair, a kneeling tyre worker, plus a tyre and trolley jack accessory. The Modern Mechanics set pushed the scene forward with laptops, diagnostic equipment and impact drivers, making it an easy fit for a current-day service bay, a backstreet forecourt or a town scene that needs some road traffic life around the railway.
Freight and locomotive crews were not left out. ModelU's cattle wagon bundle carried 9 dairy cattle and was listed at 10% off the individual price, a small but useful fix for anyone trying to make a cattle van look properly loaded. OO gauge modellers also got Rapido UK Manning Wardle L Class crew packs in early and late versions, with the late crew sold separately in full-colour resin and the broader crew line available in matte grey resin, which keeps the focus tightly on a specific locomotive and a specific operating scene.
The release fits ModelU's wider business model, built around lifelike 3D-scanned figures in O, OO, HO and N, plus custom scales and US O. In March, the company said its scanner had worked flawlessly at the last two exhibitions after trouble at the NEC the previous year, and that it had scanned a 5-week-old baby at the London Festival of Railway Modelling on March 22-23, 2026. For layouts with blank shed roads, empty sidings or a too-clean industrial corner, June's list was designed to solve those gaps one figure, one tool and one crew pack at a time.
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