Building And Designing A Wood Frame/Workbench For A Model Railway

Well as like most modellers expansion is something that is thought about 75% of the time when you are not modelling. So is the same with me, as I started out with a railway layout that fit on to a single bed at the begining of this year (Voxville End TMD). But that was just [...]

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Simply Doing The ABC’s In Cedar, From A CAD Design

As Like so many projects in this country start I guess “I met some one in the pub,” that was showing a bit of woodworking that some one had made. But they had quoted an extreme amount of money for this simple project. All that this person wanted was two names of their children, in a bold wood [...]

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Designing A Model Airboat To Use On My Local Stream

Well I don’t really know why I have gone for an “AirBoat” but… It will be easy to make with the materials I have to hand. As I have a lot of hardboard laying around in my workshop I am going to build this design which has flat sides so this should be an easy build. To [...]

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A Plane Is Born? Chiseling Out The Idea Anyway

Don’t really know why seen as I have so many other projects on the go at the moment, I have started thinking about building a plane, Lost? “Me Too!” Well here are the picture of what I started today.. Please take note that I have drawn the shape of these propellers “Free Hand” and I have never [...]

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Simple 3D Sketch with SketchUp To Build A Fab Little Train with Offcuts

The Design One evening I had five minuets to chill and I had my laptop in front of me, so I made this little sketch on Google’s SketchUp. And as I have passion for trains I sketched a small tank engine. I do intend to finish this sketch to make it look a lot more “Train Like” but for [...]

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