Summer 2025 Newsletter
Summer 2025 Newsletter
Issue 195
This was one of our informal quarterly meetings where our members showed off their latest Meccano creations.
At around 2:00pm 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!
At around 3:30pm Alan Wenbourne gave a talk entitled My Meccano Years, a chronological account of the more significant models he has built since 1946.
Report written by Tim Surtell
Here are a few highlights from the Meccano world’s biggest event of the year, the International Meccano Model Show (which is affectionately known to enthusiasts as SkegEx). The show took place at the newly-refurbished Embassy Theatre in Skegness on 28 – 29 May.
SELMEC members exhibiting at the show were Cathy Claydon, John Gay, Brian Leach, Guy Loveridge and Tim Surtell.
John Thorpe’s model of the mechanical horse that galloped down the River Seine at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Nellie the Meccelephant by Chris Taylor
Fabian Kaufmann’s walking RoboCiraptor
Andy Knox’s Class 55 Deltic diesel locomotive
Skegness Mayor Cllr Jimmy Brookes with Brian Leach’s Mechagodzilla head
Brian models his Mechagodzilla head (briefly — it weighs 5kg!) for photographers on stage