tools, materials & knowledge for model makers
Sometimes you get an idea in your head and mine was to make a Heron of Alexandria Steam Engine. Heron’s Aeolipile reaction steam engine from circa 10–70 AD is just an interesting toy. But maybe it inspired a few people on the 2000 year timeline of engines? First of all it is worth watching the engine … Read more
Only needing two parts I thought about forming brass onto MDF, creating brackets to support a fuel tank for the Enjomor Whippet. I needed to make the Enjomor Whippet look more my style and hence have gone to town on the cooling tank and the fuel tank. This mean I needed a bracket to support … Read more
We needed to hide the old radiator pipes and one idea was to make copper covers. As I only needed two covers I didn’t want to spend much time engineering the former. Hence forming copper over MDF. Maybe more accurately into MDF. Changing the radiators in the house left the old 1/4″ pipes poking through … Read more