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These pages bring together all sorts of notes and articles from my years with Meccano - I hope you may find something interesting among them! Some have appeared in one or more of our Club Magazines, while others are just passing comments, ideas, reactions and discoveries.
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Tag Archives: Space 1999
Hildred’s Shopping Centre, Skegness
First pictures arrived this morning via Drop Box of the Skegness display of Meccano models that I provided for Meccano UK’s advertising agency, currently filling a vacant shop window in the Hildred’s Centre. Thanks to Red Brick for these! Looking … Continue reading
Posted in North Midlands Meccano Guild, Space, Trucks
Tagged Atlas, Eagle, GMC, Hildred's, Kenworth, launch pad, Meccano, Peterbilt, Red Brick, rocket, Skegex, Skegness, Space 1999, transporter
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Skegness here we come!
So it is that time of year again when modellers are frantically putting the finishing touches to their models and displays in the hope that they will perform as expected after the long haul up (across or down) to Skegness. … Continue reading
Posted in North Midlands Meccano Guild, Space
Tagged campervan, Eagle Transporter, Embassy Theatre, Hildred's, James May, Meccano, Minibus, motorbike, Skegness, Space 1999, TT
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From one end to the other
Having worked on the cabin of our spaceship it was obviously time to head to the other end and do something about the engine bay. Four large engine nozzles (fusion reactor driven, apparently!) plus the ancillary tanks, four spherical and … Continue reading
Posted in Space
Tagged Eagle Transporter, Engine Bay, Fusion Engine, fusion reactor, Meccano, Rocket Nozzle, Skegex, Skegness, Space 1999
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Cabin pressure
Some models are easy enough – lots of square sides and shapes. and then there are the other sort, with few flat surfaces and all sorts of odd profiles. The sort where you wonder why you took on this challenge! … Continue reading
with wings like Eagles
There was something wonderfully sonorous about NASA’s historic announcement in 1967 – “The Eagle has landed!” telling the world that Man had landed on the moon for the first time. I can’t help but feel that the Chinese missed a … Continue reading
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