OT. Model making

[handy-andy]

Anyone have any idea of any good uk model making magazines &/or newsgroups. Thanks for looking.

Andy.

[gort]

Model Engineer

[Stephen Howard]

Model Engineers Workshop ( aka MEW ) used to be a decent mag, and uk.rec.models.engineering is a useful newsgroup.

Regards,

[manatbandq]

You need to be a bit more specific about the kind of models. Boats, planes, railways, military, architectural, model engineering, or...?

MBQ

[Bruce]

For some reason that name triggered a long-forgotten memory of "Practical Mechanics", a monthly magazine edited by FJ Camm in the

1950s. The same chap edited "Practical Wireless", "Practical Television" etc. ISTR that in one of those magazines appeared a long-running series of articles by the Flat Earth Society which triggered my interest in mathematics.

[The Natural Philosopher]

have a look here..

That's for all radio and actual working models.

There's another one

but thats more IC engines..

and

IIRC for electric flight.

Plus on usenet rec.models.* for all sorts of inane bollocks.

and uk.rec.models.* for UK stuff.

As far as e.g. plastic scale or engineering models - trains and the like, I dunno. Got enough on my plate with the toy planes as it is..

[Keith Willcocks]

And you jogged my memory and sent me scurrying to my book shelf. Sure enough there was a copy of "The News Chronicle Encyclopaedia of Popular Mechanics" by the same F.J.Camm who, according to the foreword he penned was editor of both "Practical Mechanics" and "Practical Wireless". You can judge its age by the name of the first section - "Accumulators". There is also a section on television which describes Mr Baird's state of the art system with spinning perforated discs that is currently being tested by the BBC.

[Terry]

Can't go that far back but when I was at college in the 60s doing day release on Radio & Television Servicing, one of our lecturers used to refer to PW and PT as "Camm's Comics!"

Terry

[Bruce]

No doubt your lecturer preferred the works of MG Scroggie (I always that was such a wonderful surname)

[Al]

usually read one or two before they cotton on and insist you buy one or leave....

As for news groups, if you use Outlook express as your reader just search the word model under newsgroups....be careful which ones you subscribe to though! (Or not, depending on your sensibilities!)

In all seriousness what kind of models? Boats, planes, trains, gypsy caravans, plastic, wooden....etc etc.

Al

[Owain]

With a friend to hold the camera whilst you turn the pages, one can usually photograph all the non-advertising pages in most magazines quite quickly.

difference engines...

meccano, lego...

I'd *love* a lego difference engine :-)

Owain

[Bruce]

Owain wrote:>

Try !

[djc]

see also

in meccano: