***05/09/2025 - This item is for pre-order only - shipping by end September***
In the early years of the industrial revolution, chimneys popped up all over the UK to deal with the large quantities of smoke generated by mills & factories. In order to check and maintain them, steeplejacks developed tried & tested methods to erect ladders and scaffolding, or 'staging', to allow works to be carried out.
This 7mm scale kit is suitable for any of JSModels' industrial chimney kits, and includes 16x 21' long tapered chimney ladders (enough to do both sides of even our large chimney) stand-offs, two sets of staging (each comprising 6x scaffold boards, timber supports, and tie rods) and 4x 10' ladders, plus a highly-detailed 3D printed steeplejack, with glasses, flat cap, pocket watch, and even a cigarette in his mouth!
Kit contains 4 sheets of parts cut from 1.5mm MDF, 1x unpainted steeplejack figure, 0.33mm nickel-silver wire for the tiebars, and assembly instructions.
To see how the ladders & staging was erected, you can view some of the old Fred Dibnah videos on YouTube - THIS ONE
shows how the ladders were installed, and THIS ONE
shows the process for installing the staging.
