Revision Date 26th January 2026
3D physical model. Client: Anglian Windows
for an exhibition stand at the Ideal Home Show, Earls Court London. First came the brief from the client, we attended a Sales & Marketing meeting with their team, and with lots of sketches. We retired to our workshop/ studio… and fired up our ARKEY software. We then placed the prelims onto a website that we constructed for this project… and placed the visuals on there… so that their whole team could view and comment. We then had a PowWoo on the blower, they made some amendments to our proposed. We then generated a 2/3D set of visuals [ and normally a marketing plan. they had this already]. and presented them the highly rendered and printed onto glossy photographic paper multiple views, for them to ponder over. Some days later, they phoned and said “how much for a physical model” so we said, so they said, OK get on with it, so we did
The following year, Anglian Windows Ideal Home Show.
the same type of show, but with a different design…
[ or variation on the theme] …size, plot and location.
Most of their exhibition stands were normally around 1502 – 2002 with 6 metre high walls.
The process as per the above, and another request for a model. These models are simply maid using a combination of thick card, Plywood, Gater, Foamex & DiBond board, Sticky back paper… lots of glue, time and Coffee.
The components are first constructed in ARKEY C.A.D. into block formats, exported via .dxf .dwg into ADOBE Illustrator
add colours & logo’s using illustrator & photoshop. Then craft knife, cutting boards glue and doubled sided sticky tape.
The following year from above, but with new marketing manager brings a new more modern vision and more daring design. Where a REAL Lotus Europa Sports Car [ its engine was removed] suspended / attached to a block paver ramp to simulate a driveway, and one was able to walk under and touch the bonnet of this Lotus sports car. This exhibition stand / design… brought me some headaches i-can-tell-you. A-shame, as the new marketing manager stopped all physical exhibitions stands in favour for, through and above the line marketing. Sadly my other clients didn’t have such budgets.
Metropolitan Police
again a Gater & Foamex board scale model with printed graphics over laid, plus Grid floor [ a cutting board] to help with prospectus. It was actually a real Vauxhall Astra car placed on a ramp, and so, the [ standard exhibition floor] 100mm raised floor… had to have extra strengthening incorporated.
Before starting the first thing was to tow-in, and align a 21 foot exhibition trailer, then build our plywood walls and props around this. This design at its simplest just using ARKEY C.A.D. & ADOBE Illustrator. the crushed engine block was part of a competition to guess the weight and win a prize
[ while the marketing bunch collected your details… pretty standard at a show.
ARLA Foods a 3D Arkey C.A.D. computer Added Drawing which does cost much less to produce then a physical model but doesn’t quite give one the depth of a model, model
We used CNC cut letters to emboss this ARLA [ logo] exhibition stand
and create the petal to house the LCD Display screen very handy using CNC cutters.
We didn’t / don’t have our own CNC Cutter but outsourced this task to CNC cutting companies HANDY when creating elliptical shapes as there’s no template required.
The display counter we cut this using a handheld router as the client changed their minds at the last minute, caw, that never happens lol.
another ARKEY C.A.D. 3D model. This time, a Cafe showing to scale equipment in situ. Once the components are built in C.A.D. these can then be rearranged if required to produce a different layout and for pre planning with whomever.
The back wall in this case had to be free standing and not touching the old Lyme mortar and flintstones I used black faced moisture resistant melamine 18mm sheets with aluminium channel Polycarbonates stainless steel tops and equipment
From 3D coffee pots to residential stairs to steel mezzanine steel fabrication for an exhibitions
These steel types of mezzanine floors have to be carefully designed to be erected quickly and while holding holding lots of people, moving around in different directions… and in this case
holding an Electric gas powered Pizza Oven
We used, repurposed this exhibition stand mezzanine steel work and installed it in an industrial warehouse some time after
3D models once created this can be used in any drawing held within a library and used again and again
the software used to pick out the outline and remove the background was/ is ADOBE Express, Illustrator & Ps Photoshop and of course ARKEY C.A.D.
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