EXHIBITION MODELS
Architectural, Trade Show & Interactive Model Making
Nothing draws an audience like something they can walk around, admire and interact with. We design and build display models for trade shows, museum exhibitions and investor meetings alike. Our team take complex principles or concepts and visualise them through physical, sculptural representations. These displays are a great way of gaining interest from investors or educating members of the public in a tangible and exciting way.
If you have a complex or hard to visualise product, service or scheme you would like help showcasing, get in touch below!
CAPABILITIES
Using eye-catching LED animations, premium materials, motion or even augmented reality, our exhibition models grab people’s attention. Our diverse team of model makers, designers and electronic engineers can take your idea from concept to reality, relying on our world class facilities to 3D print, machine and finish your model to the highest standard.
CASTROL ON - EV FLUIDS
As demand for high-performance battery technology reaches new heights, this model emphasises the importance of advanced thermal management—highlighting the benefits of direct over indirect cooling.
Through four distinct scenarios, synchronised LED animations compare the performance of two vehicles side by side. The model demonstrates how direct cooling can enhance vehicle safety, support fast charging, improve cold climate conditioning and extend battery health.
Each vehicle features a laser-etched, powder coated dashboard display that clearly shows its current status.
BP - INTEGRATED ENERGY COMPANY
The IEC (Integrated Energy Company) model demonstrates twenty different energy technologies that BP employ in a single tabletop model.
Combining programmed illumination with props of physical vehicles that guests are invited to ‘play with’ illustrates an engaging set of various technologies across land, sea, and sky.
Custom storage was integrated for every component, making it straightforward to transport the model between trade shows and exhibitions.
2HEADS GLOBAL – BAE SYSTEMS RETAIL STAND
For 2Heads’ ambitious trade show exhibition stand concept, our team delivered this 1:75 scale model on a two week turnaround - swiftly integrating 2Heads’ 3D concept, print and display graphics into this crisp and focussed representation.
Across the 260 ft long environment represented, the model illustrated video walls, multiple floors, stairways and a host of large defence vehicles.
CASTROL - E-MOTOR TECHNOLOGY
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A three-part display stand for Castrol’s range of E-transmission fluids, E-Greases, and E-thermal fluid products which help customers drive their electric vehicles further, charge them faster, and keep them on the road longer.
The three sections of the model are split into ‘Range’ (featuring scale architectural models of a city), ‘Dry Motor vs. Wet Motor’ (showing the E-fluids working in comparison), and ‘Performance’ (comparing the fluids' effects over a scale representation of the Nürburgring race track).
BP - ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
A showcase model of BP's renewable energy solutions to summarise their alternative energy strategy.
The model combines 3D printed model buildings, a solar farm, biofuel plants and rotating wind turbines, all set onto a veneered walnut landscape. The final model is displayed in BP’s London head office reception.
STERLING THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES – HEAT EXCHANGER
Employing physics and engineering that requires some explanation, Sterling TT wished to approach this with a physical demonstration model.
Starting with a 3D CAD model of a shell and tube heat exchanger that the client had already devised for an illustration, our Modelshop team executed a translation of the concept built and delivered in just two weeks.
BP - SAND MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY
Demonstration of how sand and water are detected and kept out of an oil and gas well during extraction. Rotating the centre reveals the two different sides, one illustrating the location of the well relative to the platform, the other detailing of how the differing technologies work.
A range of accessory chips triggered different LED interactions to represent distributed acoustic sensing technology and water ingress.
CASTROL ON - DATA CENTRE COOLANT
For the release of Castrol’s new ‘E-thermal cooling fluids’, Modelshop designed and prototyped an animated display model to visualise the improved efficiency of server cooling with the new product, versus conventional fluid cooling.
Diffused LEDs were set into a representation of a computer heat sink, with two cooling tubes running through its cross-section. Differing LED animations in each were used to show the flow of fluid, and to illustrate heat escaping over time.