New house — new herb and spice rack! I recently took apart my original rack and rebuilt it to fit the pull-out pantry space in the kitchen of my new house. There are two rows of herbs on one side, balanced by two rows of spices on the other.

Based on a design by Bruce Geange which featured in an issue of the New Zealand Federation of Meccano Modellers Magazine.

Featuring clutch, 8 speed and reverse gearbox, hub reduction gearing (see detail photos), and inter-axle differential.

A four-axle chassis built to demonstrate three different user-selectable steering modes — normal, crab and tight turn.

Featuring twin rear axles, 5:1 hub reduction gearing and lockable inter-axle differential.

Featuring a six speed and reverse gearbox and six wheel drive. Powered by an E20R motor.

Featuring a six speed gearbox and six wheel drive.

This crane is built using all Elektrikit parts bar the string, hook, nuts and bolts. Securing parts at right angles is a challenge, but using electromagnet cores works.

This epicyclic mechanism allows a clock to be wound while the clock mechanism is still powered. It was designed by Bert Love and was featured in the July 1968 issue of Meccano Magazine.

A Wilesco steam traction engine pulling a scratch-built goods van and Meccano water cart.

The blades rotate when the model is pushed along.

With a boom over 5’ long, this model is the same size as the block-setting crane in the Super Model Leaflet (SML). Despite the iconic status of the crane in the SML, I have tried to improve the model with better proportions, simplifying it, and adding…

Model № 7 from the 1930s Aeroplane Constructor № 2 set.

This model is built from parts in the 2015 Spin Master Meccano Tower Crane set. Jib hoist luff and slew motions are incorporated.

A 1930s tinplate constructional building of a ‘Garage Citroën’, probably by the French company Compagnie Industrielle du Jouet (CIJ). It requires 100 tiny nuts and bolts to build. My model of the Golden Arrow is parked inside.

This model forms ModelPlan 272, by the late Michael Adler, and has three motors with gearbox, sourced from a New Zealand supplier who has ceased trading. The constructor has not been able to source the right motors and opted to convert the model to one…

This model forms part of ModelPlan 274, by George Illingworth and others, and represents a pre-war towing vehicle for trailer fire pumps of various types. I am using part of ModelPlan 266 for this. The model is complicated to build successfully. The…

This trailer is part of ModelPlan 266, by George Illingworth and others, and represents a wartime fire pump towed by a truck. This model, on the whole, is reasonably simple to construct, but has some tricky areas. I have changed the construction a little…

This model started life as a copy of a model in a 1950 issue of Meccano Magazine and was modified, as the constructor could not get the lorry cab structure to fit correctly. It is a nice model, worthy of building.

You would think having built eighteen different ship models since 2012 that I would have satisfied each possible design idea, but the opposite is true and I always find myself still reaching for that one last Endeavour. Over the years they have all…