Background on the people behind PNF Figurines Australia, how our product range has grown, and how to contact us.
Greg Sheppard comes from a naval orientated family (RN) and served 7 1/2 years in the RAN as an ABMTP. He left the Navy in 1991 as he wanted to provide a stable home environment for his family.
Greg's a keen plastic modeller. However, he's always complained that no one made naval figurines and so Jackie came up with the idea to make a range of sailors.
As a result PNF Figurines Australia was established in 1992. As Greg is somewhat of a perfectionist, we go to great lengths to ensure accuracy and attention to detail is maintained.
Product Range
We have expanded our range enormously over the years and now cover Navy, Army (WWI - Mounted Lighthorse, Mounted Australian Camel Corp, WWII, Vietnam) their allies (British, New Zealand) as well as their adversaries (German, Turkish), Biblical, Anglo Scottish Wars, Knights, Guards (4 out of 5 Regiments and are working on the 5th), as well as Chess Sets.
205 Monbulk Rd
Silvan VIC 3795
Australia
Welcome to Roden Kits The firm works on the following directions:
Solid-state modeling and industrial design
Products and tooling design
Tool manufacturing
Manufacturing of plastic items
The ideology of new products' design is based upon the solid-state modeling that allows not only to create the design of the product and to conduct its computer assembly, but also to evaluate design as a whole and to judge the solutions that were adopted during the projecting stage.
Working with CAD/CAM/CAE systems during the design stage allows to create the mathematical models of every separate part that are further used in tooling design and in development of the programs for the digital control machines. The mould design engineers, the industrial engineers and programmers of digital control machines get perfect projects to work with that allows to compete on the market not only with quality and design, but also with the rapidity of new products introduction. Having an extensive experience in design of the technical products, computer accessories, food and technical packaging, airplane model kits and armored technics we are ready to provide any kinds of the above stated services for you…
The development of tooling is conducted by the way of implementation of CAD/CAM/CAE systems using the mathematical models of the parts created during the product's design stage. This ensures high quality and accuracy of the press tools and moulds being produced. If necessary, the overall analysis of product's integrity during moulding as well as strength analysis are conducted. RODEN owes its success on the world's market primarily to the high quality of the products that is set in at the stage of tooling design.
The tool manufacturing specializes in manufacturing of press tools, moulds, polygraphic cliches, matrices for vacuum-moulding, details of complex configuration.
Extensive experience of working with the digital control machines allows to produce unique in their complexity electrodes for electric discharge machining, parts with double curvature surfaces, engrave polygraphic cliches of any configuration.
The traditional selection of technologies used by tool manufacturers is enlarged by such a unique technology as Ni-Co galvanoplastica for the production of forming moulds' inserts according to the master-model of the product.
Roden Kits pays special attention to the quality of moulding and the plastic materials used in the production process.
Here our ideas are embodied into real products.
The moulding of plastic articles is conducted on injection moulding machines with the volume of injection from 45 to 250 cm3.
The technical products, airplane and armored technics model kits are in the quantity production.