Marquetry

To my amazement, I discovered last year that Hobbies is still around; I bought a micro-mill off them and some other stuff.

They still do the marquetry kits:

well three anyway.

There are and were a lot of craft things around, probably still are on the shopping channels. One I remember was creating pictures on a kind of aluminium sheet by some form of grain effect that reflected light differently as you got the reflections at different angles. Some were even coloured. I'm sure a lot of these things used etching and small machining tools to create them back in the day. I was always so cack handed with things that were supposed to look like art. I could make model flying planes and model boats to my own design, but anything that was supposed to look like a scale model usually went very wonky. Brian

Gamages, there is a name I have not heard for a very long time. Reminds me of Meccano Magazine and Airfix magazine etc. Brian

I don't think I even started mine. I hated all that "make and do" stuff.

Still exists as Airfix model world

Available on either Kindle or as hard copy.

I remember Meccano magazine when I was at Primary (late 60s~early 70s) used to look at them all the time as there was a pile of them in the library I can sort of remember being enthralled at some of the models (self designs) trams, steam engines, buses etc

YouTube video of James May crossing a Meccano bridge

Brian Gaff (Sofa) explained on 30/01/2021 :