Engineering in Miniature

Keep entertained with Engineering In Miniature - covering all aspects of model engineering, helping novices to progress their first projects, providing in-depth features to attract the experienced.

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Engineering in Miniature

An improved Schools - building a Roedean • Nick's 3½-inch gauge locomotive project focuses this month on the front end and making an efficient smokebox design.

A Tipper Truck Tale • Dave enjoys turning a very secondhand-looking item of 5-inch gauge freight rolling stock into something useful.

An insight into miniature injectors • Roy concludes his in-depth study into the characteristics and design requirements of a vital but often misunderstood piece of locomotive equipment.

Sheet metal folding going large… • Rich faced a folding issue on his latest locomotive build and as is typical of this particular model engineer, he made up something to solve the problem.

A little bit of everything • Harry soldiers on without a workshop in which to get his essential winter maintenance done, and still manages to make his future work hopefully easier…

Reviving a part-built Gauge One loco kit • Stephen describes how he completed his Barrett GWR 47xx locomotive build project, which had been paused by a house build and then exchanged for something bigger!

Raising the roof at Rhyl • Justin describes how a small team at the 15-inch gauge Rhyl Miniature Railway performed surgery to a former tram car to produce a more spacious, useful passenger vehicle.

Building a ride-on tender from scratch • This month Peter and Matthew's 7¼-inch ride-on tender 'beginners' project turns to the water taps, with again a range of techniques demonstrated for novices.

Holding screw heads

Colin Tickle

Which side of the argument?

Small scale, big interest

Spring steam on the horizon • As many clubs look forward to the start of their running seasons much is going on with plenty of activity to keep members - of all ages - occupied…

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