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Model engineering is the pursuit of constructing proportionally-scaled miniature working representations of full-sized machines. It is a branch of metalworking with a ...
The presence of these metal ship models in the Bassett-Lowke war time model ship catalog can be explained by the following: Derek Head describes on page 11 of his book that at beginning of World War One, government censors prohibited Bassett-Lowke from selling or advertising their line of detailed 100 ft. to 1 inch or 1/1200 scale models of the ...
Model Engineer magazine was first published (in the United Kingdom) to support the hobby of model engineering in 1898 by Percival Marshall, who was to remain its editor for over 50 years. It has been owned by Mortons Media Group [1] since 2022. The magazine addressed the emergence of a new hobby — the construction of models (often working ...
Cox HO-Scale Trains Resource Details the 1970s line of COX model trains in HO-scale, includes online catalog resource. Cox Engine Forum Members include current and past employees, Cox family members, and experienced modelers and collectors. Also includes a resource for catalogs, product instruction manuals, and other documents.
NMRA standard S-1.2 covers the popular model railway scales and S-1.3 defines scales with deep flanges for model railways with very sharp curves or other garden railway specific design features. In certain NMRA scales an alternative designation is sometimes used corresponding the length of one prototype foot in scale either in millimetres or in ...
In 1984, ESCI introduced separated track links for AFV model kits. In the same year they also started an innovative product: 1:12 scale cockpits of aircraft such as the F-104 and F-16. The 1985 catalogue, distributed by Ricordi in Milan, shows a redesign of the boxes, with the replacement of the predominant color white with red on box art.
Wingrove left his job as a lathe operator to create models full-time in November 1967, and launched himself as a freelance model engineer, [2] since which time he has hand crafted in metal almost 280 automobile miniatures in the scales of 1/20 & 1/15th, primarily in 1/15th scale.
Model Engineers' Workshop is a UK hobby magazine published by Mortons Media Group that was spun off Model Engineer in 1990. [1] The magazine focuses on metal working workshop tools and techniques, although in recent years it has given more space to modern technologies such as CAD/CAM and 3D printing.