This was one of our informal quarterly meetings where our members showed off their latest Meccano creations.
At around 2:30pm we had a short committee meeting, followed by the Model Tour in which members were invited to give a short talk about their models — in particular their entries for the Secretary’s Challenge!
The Zoo Secretary’s Challenge
This was our fourth ‘Big Challenge’. The first one, in 2013, was to build trains to run on O gauge track; the second, in 2015, was to construct a model village, and the third, in 2017, was to build the London Underground map.
The idea for this Challenge came from Cathy Warrell, and it was to build a zoo. Members could build any number of models of animals and/or enclosures. A scale wasn’t specified!
If anyone needed inspiration, they could take a look at the Noah’s Ark model from Michael Whiting at the International Meccano Model Show in 2012.