After displaying my latest model of a Ferris Wheel at the SELMEC Meccano Show on 2nd November 2024, I soon decided to give the model a new look, changing it’s name to ‘Evil Eye Mk II’. The complete diameter of the wheel made with 16 strips (part № 1)…

Our annual promotional display at the Eltham Centre featured models from many of our members.

Having constructed at least 14 different Ferris Wheel-based models in the past, I needed to come up with something different if I was to build yet another, and that was the thought I had on my mind when I chose to revisit them. The classic amusement park…

This was one of our informal quarterly meetings where our members showed off their latest Meccano creations.

A gauge 1 Meccano version of a Robert Stephenson & Co. Patentee locomotive. Work-in-progress, with several technical problems to be solved. The model demands spoked wheels, not Meccano ones.

A motorised version of a classic hand-operated model which was featured in the December 1938 issue of Meccano Magazine.

Inspired by Guy Loveridge’s award-winning lawnmower model.

I suppose this model is the very opposite of the Secretary’s Challenge for this meeting (September 2024). That Challenge was to build a model from the last page of the parts list, which is somewhat heavy on exotic parts. My collection is rather more…

A water tower built using only part numbers 146–235f.

A model from the October 1976 issue of Meccano Magazine. The ‘automatic’ is the digging cycle which is hand-driven. The digger bucket is moved by sprocket wheels and mounted on a crawling track.

Built using only part numbers 146–235f.

A mechanism from the June 1968 issue of Meccano Magazine.

Built using only part numbers 146–235f, but I have cheated slightly! The standard nuts and bolts (parts 37a and b) can be replaced by pivot bolts and set screws from large circular parts respectively. You also have to imagine that I have bent the 2½”…

A clock powered by a № 1 clockwork motor from a 1960s issue of Meccano Magazine. It does not work.

Waterline model of battleship HMS Royal Sovereign (launched in 1918), based on 1930 manual model 6.42, mainly in nickel-plated Meccano to simulate battleship grey.

A 1915 A Series road roller in 1970s blue/yellow Meccano. The French 6V motor is battery-powered and drives through nylon gears and chain to the rear rollers, with steering done by chain.

Built using 1950s Dinky Builder parts.

Built using only part numbers 146–235f. Features a nine cylinder radial engine.

This is the closest I can come in Meccano to a scale model of the Delfshavense Schie Lifting Rail Bridge which carries a very heavily trafficked four track railway line over an important Dutch inland waterway. The current bridge was built in the early…

It had been a while since my last fairground ride concept thanks to a series of ship and robot themed models, and so suitably refreshed I set out about creating another. Over the years designing numerous fairground models I feel I have virtually…