1 35 Models

1:35 models is the new name for Modesco. It was founded in 2009 in a back room in Guildford, Surrey. Originally it was named Taylors Light Engineering until someone asked "How do you engineer light", it became TLE Tool and Model Supplies overnight. With so many people asking what does TLE stand for it was decided to drop that as well, at the same time we changed the name simply to "Tool & Model Supplies". In June of 2011 we moved into our first shop, located in Farncombe, Surrey and started to concentrate on model sales rather than tools due to customer demand. It was around this time that we noticed people were asking for items not normally available in other model shops that based their sales on profit rather than customer satisfaction. As of January 2014 it was decided to evolve again and we arrived at what we now felt was the final version of the name for the business, as shown above. Modesco - Model Supply Company.