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Livelihoods based on model engineering include retailers who provide model engineers with equipment and supplies, small fabrication services who produce castings, make miniature live steam boilers and live steam kit parts (or even whole running models), commercial publishers in the model engineering press, and a very few professional model ...
Estes Industries was founded by Vernon Estes in 1958; in 1961, the company moved to a 77-acre tract of land on the outskirts of Penrose, Colorado. [10] [1] In 1969, Vernon sold the company to the Damon Corporation of Needham, Massachusetts, a company which also purchased a number of other hobby companies including a smaller competitor of Estes, Centuri Engineering of Phoenix, Arizona.
SME was founded by Alastair Robertson-Aikman [2] in 1946 under the title The Scale Model Equipment Company Limited to manufacture scale models and detail parts for the model engineering trade. [3] [4] It was During the 1950s the company moved away from model making to precision engineering, principally parts for aircraft instruments and ...
Many model locomotive designs in a range of gauges were serialised by Martin Evans in the pages of Model Engineer. Some of the castings used to machine and build these designs are still available from a few commercial suppliers as are some of the laser cut components.
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 ...
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.
The New York Society of Model Engineers (NYSME) is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the model engineering, model railroading, and the preservation of American railroad history. Formed in 1926, [1] it is the oldest model railroad Society in America. [2] It is located in Carlstadt, New Jersey.
Tom D. Walshaw (1912–1998) was an engineer, author and contributor to the British magazines Model Engineer and Engineering in Miniature.Many of his magazine contributions and books were authored under the pseudonym Tubal Cain.