Curvature Group is one of the most respected and professional modelmaking and prototyping companies in the UK. They take pride in their product, and specialise in exceeding their client’s expectations with their high level of service, attention to detail and quick turnaround times whilst maintaining superb part quality and highest levels of finish.
The team at Curvature Group are skilled, experienced and competent individuals. The exacting nature of modelmaking demands the highest levels of attention to detail and surgical precision to continually meet and exceed expectations. With over 100 years of combined experience their skill is without doubt, but requirements rarely stand still and the ability to innovate is paramount. New designs, new shapes and forms, new materials, novel mechanisms and increasing complexity all contrive to push the boundaries and test theirr limits. But with an agile, flexible, innovative and resourceful team they can confidently meet all the challenges now and in the future.
At Curvature Group, they understand the role that technology plays in the production of reference models and have continued to research and apply the best and most appropriate technology to enhance the process. They are committed to innovation and R&D not only in new technology, but also in materials, processes and techniques.
Their services include:
- Product design modelmaking and rapid prototyping
- Pattern & mould making
- Interactive models & prototypes
- Full size transportation & aviation mock ups
- Defence modelmaking
- Marine modelmaking
- Scale passenger aircraft
- Creative form development (toy & character sculpture)
- Short-run production
- CNC machining
- Vacuum casting
- Foam moulding
It was Torpedalo sponsor John Burn Ltd that first put us in touch with Curvature Group and MD Nick Phelps. While it was always “the dream” to secure one major sponsor to machine both the upper and lower sections of the main boat hull, we never actually expected that we would find a sponsor as willing and generous as to actually take on the huge amount of work involved. That, however, was before we met Nick. Curvature Group, together with Norco GRP, forms the lynchpin of the boat manufacture, with John Burn, Sika and Cube Precision feeding in essential supplies and supplementary machining. They will machine a male pattern of the boat – that is, a full scale hard model of the entire boat, from which female moulds can be taken. The time and cost involved in manufacturing a dimensionally accurate, 1:1, portable model of an eight-metre-long boat is significant, and count ourselves incredibly lucky to have Nick and his team as part of Project Torpedalo.
