Use the netty and hunt about

Big things wee things flying things static things

Thanks to the netty, In the entire history of humanity, It's never been easier

http://modelenginenews.org/

http://www.ffscale.co.uk/index.htm

How about a pulse Jet engine? The neighbours will love you

http://www.pulsejetengines.com/

Edited By Ady1 on 07/09/2012 16:41:14

Hello Liam, First of all I would not commit to buying that ship advertised on TV, over the period of building it will cost £800 or so and would take nearly 3 years to receive all the bits and by then I would be bored !.

Buy a few model mags. like model railway and Model boats and model airplanes. There is a Hobbies mag. in Smiths which is full of projects and suppliers of small tools etc.

Clive

Hi liam,
As Clive advises do not go near that Telly ad boat, Gentlemen this is Liam's first posting and therefore welcome to the forum. Have you a model shop in your town/city if so go in and look at the wooden construction kits, They are fantastically made these days and you are not payying for an overpriced telly advert.. The shop owner will I am sure be willing to point you in the direction of like minded constructors. My father built some fantastic ships and one is still lurking in the Glasgow maratime museum.
Please enjoy whatever way you decide to go he allways said that I was a metal muncher, but I could not ever turn a spandrell to his scale.
Bob

I'v been out of the workshop for a few months with a crook leg, and am just getting back to it, so I started with something simple, a weather vane, in the form of a Cessna 185, this was the main aircraft type that I worked on, years ago. Now I'm getting back to my hot air / Stirling Engines. I don't, but you could, just to find out how they work, build one of the tin can hot air engines that you can find on the net, you then might like to build a machined version, or go to a steam/compressed air engine, plans of which may also be found on google.

I started modeling by making tap wrenches, and die holders, some for sale, some to keep, and before making any models, started making parts for vintage cars, and tractors. Ian S C

Hi There

My sister in law did a collect over the weeks project, a dolls house.

They discontinued publishing it about 2/3rds of the way through so she now has several hundred pounds worth of firewood (and lots of paper to start the fire).

regards David

Edited By David Clark 1 on 10/09/2012 10:41:54

Got ME no., 4438 yesterday, Davids got a good start for you in that, page 376 "Junior Engineer-A vertical Oscillating Power Plant" By Tony Wright, A design and build of a little steam engine. Ian S C