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My Ferrari Testarossa - Now grown up
enough to have most of the body finished.
1/9th scale and from Ferrari plans. It's also radio controlled and after 8 years of occasional time it's almost done! 8 more pics here: View from front; With the hood up; Side view; The door; Rear, before the roof went on; Chassis Motors/rear and Chassis Underneath at the rear. 2003 update - most of the body's gone again - I wasn't happy with the front of the car looking too much like a wedge of cheese! More curvature was required......2005 update. Haven't been working on it - did the Rickshaw instead! |
My CAT
955L-
The model before the 235 - large, heavy, 140 gears inside it and it worked just like the original. Much fun ! |
My computer controlled
CAT
235 running in 1988-
The inside; go to an article about how it all works. Click here to see movie of it running, at its last show, in 2007, after operating for 20 years! (A very large file - 76MB) |
My Cromwell
Tank-
This is radio controlled and goes over most obstacles. Operating turret and elevating gun. Two motors for tracks. Built ~1994. Click here for some detailed images. Click here to see movie of it , still running, in 2007. (A large file! 23MB) |
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NEW!!!!!
My Grove TM9120 Truck Crane is finally looking like a truck, after 12 years! |
My
Rickshaw
being pulled by a walking man. Winner of the
ISM Founder's Prize in 2007. All mechanical leg movement.
See here for more details and a movie of the model operating. |
Other goodies / articles that I've written in the past...
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reprint of article from the Sheffield Meccano Guild Mag, Dec 1986: Differentials, the theory and practice (part 1) - all about building spur gear and 'inside out' differentials. |
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reprint of article from the Sheffield Meccano Guild Mag, Dec 1987: Differentials, the theory and practice (part 2) - all about my Three Speed Epicyclic Transmission that was in my CAT955 (above). |
| reprint of article from the Constructor Quartery, No.1, Sept 1988: Differentials, the theory and practice (part 3) - all you'd ever want to know about how Tank Steering Systems work from WW1 to the late 70's. Click here for the article in higher resolution pdf format (800kb). |
Last updated: February 18, 2010
