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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Playpark by David Stanford.
A selection of playpark animated scenes.
Videos of this and other models by David Stanford can be seen at the bottom of the page. (14/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Lunar Landing Site by David Stanford.
A selection of Apollo Lunar Landing Site features. The Lunar Lander. Seismometer (Apollo 11), Surveyor 3 (visited by Apollo 12). The Rover (from Apollo 15, 16, and 17). Large Rock (visited by Apollo 17).
Videos of this and other models by David Stanford can be seen at the bottom of the page. (14/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Aerodrome by David Stanford.
A model in the style of Croydon Aerodrome in the 1930’s.
Videos of this and other models by David Stanford can be seen at the bottom of the page. (14/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - 3 Headed Dragon by David Stanford.
This is a model produced for the Japanese Market.
Videos of this and other models by David Stanford can be seen at the bottom of the page. (13/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Ships by David Stanford.
Two set models of sailing ships. A puzzle. What is the name of the brown and cream ship? See what is on the deck. Answer: Mary Celeste. Reference, Dr Who, 1st Doctor, "The Chase". The Daleks chasing Dr Who make all the crew of the Mary Celeste jump overboard. (13/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Cars by David Stanford.
Two modified set models. Saloon car model 4.35 from 1955. Sports car model 4.17 from 1951. (14/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet Fighter Planes by David Stanford.
The blue and yellow largely plastic version is the Meccano set model. The second plane is a rebuild in metal parts with a Meccano astronaut as pilot. (14/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Motor Bikes by David Stanford.
From 1995, 2014 and 2017 sets. (13/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Racing Cars by David Stanford.
The set model Renault F1 racing car and a modified racing car from the Mechanical Workshop set. (14/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - 5 Lorries by David Stanford.
A group of lorries with British Cabs. The loads on the flat bed lorries are my versions of the tracked Deere tractor and the Silver Ghost. (14/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - 2 Lorries by David Stanford
Two lorries with British Cabs modified with evolution parts to give a vertical front grill. (14/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - 3 Articulated Lorries by David Stanford
A selection of lorries with French Cabs. (14/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - 5ins Gauge Goods Train - by David Stanford.
The engine and wagons are from different eras, chosen more for their size than compatibility. This is therefore a preservation society train. (25/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - 5ins Gauge Goods Train - Sentinel Steam Locomotive - by David Stanford.
Built in the period 1925 to 1931 and lasted until 1959. They were first used by the LNER and later appeared on the LMS and GWR. (25/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - 5ins Gauge Goods Train - Flat Wagon - by David Stanford.
My model is a generic version of a flat wagon dating from around 1900 (25/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - 5ins Gauge Goods Train - Gas Wagon - by David Stanford.
Used from the early 1920’s until the 1950’s. They supplied town’s gas to isolated stations, stationary carriages and supported mess and sleeping vans before the widespread use of propane gas. (25/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - 5ins Gauge Goods Train - Goods Van - by David Stanford.
This is a Midland Railway Van. Several similar styles were built from 1880 onwards. The earlier versions were not as tall as the later builds. My Meccano model is of one of the early versions. (25/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Dutch Windmill built by Ken McDonald based on 1937 manual, Outfit 9 model 9.1 with some modifications. In addition to some aesthetic adjustments the main changes are the introduction of a Ball Thrust Bearing below the upper structure to enable it to adjust to the wind direction and powered by a low voltage motor. (21/10/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A Ball Roller built by Ken McDonald which has proved very reliable when exhibited at Scone and Darlington (28/10/2017)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Combine Harvester built by Ken McDonald. Based on Meccano Model Leaflet no. 13 (1986) model no. 10.13 with modifications devised by Bill Charleson and myself, with a simplified mechanism for static running on a stand. Powered by a low voltage motor. (07/04/2018)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Combine Harvester built by Ken McDonald. Based on Meccano Model Leaflet no. 13 (1986) model no. 10.13 with modifications devised by Bill Charleson and myself, with a simplified mechanism for static running on a stand. Powered by a low voltage motor. (07/04/2018)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Combine Harvester built by Ken McDonald. Based on Meccano Model Leaflet no. 13 (1986) model no. 10.13 with modifications devised by Bill Charleson and myself, with a simplified mechanism for static running on a stand. Powered by a low voltage motor. (07/04/2018)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Tractor and Hay Cart built by Ken McDonald. Built as a companion to the harvester, loosely based on the Dinky model. (07/04/2018)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Display of small models by Desmond Smith (03/11/2019)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a 0-6-0 Locomotive built by Keith Remnant (2010s)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a 4-6-2 Locomotive built by Keith Remnant (2010s)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Trawler built by Keith Remnant.
This was an early Meccano plan, but it looked just like a small cargo vessel. I showed it to a retired fisherman at the Elgin exhibition who told me what it should like. So I took it home that evening, modified it and took it back the next day and showed it to him. He said, "Now that's a trawler." (02/01/2017)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Close up of the bow of a model of a Trawler built by Keith Remnant.
This was an early Meccano plan, but it looked just like a small cargo vessel. I showed it to a retired fisherman at the Elgin exhibition who told me what it should like. So I took it home that evening, modified it and took it back the next day and showed it to him. He said, "Now that's a trawler." (02/01/2017)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Close up of the stern of a model of a Trawler built by Keith Remnant.
This was an early Meccano plan, but it looked just like a small cargo vessel. I showed it to a retired fisherman at the Elgin exhibition who told me what it should like. So I took it home that evening, modified it and took it back the next day and showed it to him. He said, "Now that's a trawler." (02/01/2017)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Prawn Fishing Boat by Keith Remnant. This was a freelance model based on the prawn fishing boats in Burghead Harbour and verified by one of our local fishermen (27/02/2018)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Prawn Fishing Boat by Keith Remnant. This was a freelance model based on the prawn fishing boats in Burghead Harbour and verified by one of our local fishermen (27/02/2018)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Prawn Fishing Boat by Keith Remnant. This was a freelance model based on the prawn fishing boats in Burghead Harbour and verified by one of our local fishermen (07/11/2015)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a pre-war American Limo by Keith Remnant. I saw a photo on one of the Meccano Facebook pages and decided this was the next model I wanted to build, so I made this one up as I went on. It has a motor but I couldn't get the steering wheel to link with the front wheels of the vehicle, so although it moves, it can't be steered.
The fold down section at the back is made from leather cut from and old jacket.
When I showed it at the first Zoom meeting, Brendan referred to it as a "gangster" car and expected to see a machine gun poking out from a window! (13/06/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a pre-war American Limo by Keith Remnant. I saw a photo on one of the Meccano Facebook pages and decided this was the next model I wanted to build, so I made this one up as I went on. It has a motor but I couldn't get the steering wheel to link with the front wheels of the vehicle, so although it moves, it can't be steered.
The fold down section at the back is made from leather cut from and old jacket.
When I showed it at the first Zoom meeting, Brendan referred to it as a "gangster" car and expected to see a machine gun poking out from a window! (13/06/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Double Decker Bus by Keith Remnant. This is a Set 9 bus, upgraded with interior and displayed as route 124, the bus I used to catch to school. (20/09/2019)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Double Decker Bus by Keith Remnant. This is a Set 9 bus, upgraded with interior and displayed as route 124, the bus I used to catch to school. (20/09/2019)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Models by Keith Remnant. In the foreground a Set 6 - Standard Motors Minibus (upgraded). Then a Set 9 bus, upgraded with interior and displayed as route 124, the bus I used to catch to school. To the right of the bus is an oil tanker. The model followed on from an article on what was then believed to be the largest oil tanker in the world, the Spyros Niarchos which had been featured in the March 1956 edition of the Meccano Magazine, and on which the published model plans were loosely based. This model was built by my older brother Dennis Remnant some years ago, and kindly donated to me. (03/11/2019)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Ferrari F1 car built by Keith Remnant from a modern set, along with a blue and yellow Renault F1 racing car display model owned by Angus Plumb (03/11/2019)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of the "Lion" locomotive built by Keith Remnant. Lion is a Victorian locomotive built in 1838 and worked alongside her sister loco, Tiger, on the Liverpool to Manchester railway.
She had a varied career, including being worked as a static engine pumping water around Liverpool docks. She was rescued before being sold for scrap and was eventually restored to full working order in steam and toured the country appearing in railway festivals and displays.
She appeared in three films including the title role in the 1953 Ealing Comedy film, The Titfield Thunderbolt, the first of their films to be produced in Technicolour, hence my model is of Thunderbolt from plans published in MM that year. (I think)
She was eventually retired and is now on permanent static display in the Liverpool Railway Museum under her real name and livery, Lion. (18/05/2019)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of the "Lion" locomotive built by Keith Remnant. Lion is a Victorian locomotive built in 1838 and worked alongside her sister loco, Tiger, on the Liverpool to Manchester railway.
She had a varied career, including being worked as a static engine pumping water around Liverpool docks. She was rescued before being sold for scrap and was eventually restored to full working order in steam and toured the country appearing in railway festivals and displays.
She appeared in three films including the title role in the 1953 Ealing Comedy film, The Titfield Thunderbolt, the first of their films to be produced in Technicolour, hence my model is of Thunderbolt from plans published in MM that year. (I think)
She was eventually retired and is now on permanent static display in the Liverpool Railway Museum under her real name and livery, Lion. (18/05/2019)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Mississippi Paddle Steamer built by Keith Remnant. My interest in jazz and all things Southern, Southern Gospel, Bluegrass, Country, Appalachion mountain music etc, extends to the Mississippi Paddle Steamers. I've seen one or two smallish modcderls, I seem to remembner the MSoS sold one a wee while ago. My one is a freelance model built from photos and drawings trawled off the internet. There is a motor under the boiler room running a discreetly disguised chain drive which turns the paddle assembly. The motor has so far run without problems during several excursions to the Elgin exhibition. (24/02/2018)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Mississippi Paddle Steamer built by Keith Remnant. My interest in jazz and all things Southern, Southern Gospel, Bluegrass, Country, Appalachion mountain music etc, extends to the Mississippi Paddle Steamers. I've seen one or two smallish modcderls, I seem to remembner the MSoS sold one a wee while ago. My one is a freelance model built from photos and drawings trawled off the internet. There is a motor under the boiler room running a discreetly disguised chain drive which turns the paddle assembly. The motor has so far run without problems during several excursions to the Elgin exhibition. (24/02/2018)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A Thunderbird 2 model built by Keith Remnant.
This box turned up unexpectedly on my doorstep one Father's day. No card or note with it! But I figured out it was from my son who ordered it on line and had it delivered direct to me, so he didn't get the chance to put a card in. He thought it was a model that actually flew! (13/07/2017)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A Thunderbird 2 model built by Keith Remnant.
This box turned up unexpectedly on my doorstep one Father's day. No card or note with it! But I figured out it was from my son who ordered it on line and had it delivered direct to me, so he didn't get the chance to put a card in. He thought it was a model that actually flew! (13/07/2017)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A Thunderbird 2 model built by Keith Remnant.
This box turned up unexpectedly on my doorstep one Father's day. No card or note with it! But I figured out it was from my son who ordered it on line and had it delivered direct to me, so he didn't get the chance to put a card in. He thought it was a model that actually flew! (13/07/2017)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A Meccano bridge with Lego piers built by Keith Remnant. At an exhibition 4 years ago I met another exhibitor who had examples of several different construction systems, none of which were compatible. He had a 3D printer and was interested in making parts to make the different systems work together.
So I built the bridge, just a freelance invention of my own, and built the piers using the Lego that used to belong to my children and grandchildren!
I made a 3D model in Autocad of the black parts fully dimensioned and sent them to the other exhibitor to get a quote to make them. The idea was that I would then bolt the Meccano bridge to the Lego piers. He quoted £16.00 EACH. £64.00 was just out of the question, but I noted that the distance between the studs was compatible with the distance between the downstands of the angle girders. So I superglued the black parts of Lego together and cut slots with a tenon saw. Hey presto, one Legano bridge. I bought the road and cars at another of the the Elgin exhibitions and have just made up the little diorama to complete it. (2010s)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A Meccano bridge with Lego piers built by Keith Remnant. At an exhibition 4 years ago I met another exhibitor who had examples of several different construction systems, none of which were compatible. He had a 3D printer and was interested in making parts to make the different systems work together.
So I built the bridge, just a freelance invention of my own, and built the piers using the Lego that used to belong to my children and grandchildren!
I made a 3D model in Autocad of the black parts fully dimensioned and sent them to the other exhibitor to get a quote to make them. The idea was that I would then bolt the Meccano bridge to the Lego piers. He quoted £16.00 EACH. £64.00 was just out of the question, but I noted that the distance between the studs was compatible with the distance between the downstands of the angle girders. So I superglued the black parts of Lego together and cut slots with a tenon saw. Hey presto, one Legano bridge. I bought the road and cars at another of the the Elgin exhibitions and have just made up the little diorama to complete it. (2010s)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - The Lego piers for a Meccano bridge built by Keith Remnant. At an exhibition 4 years ago I met another exhibitor who had examples of several different construction systems, none of which were compatible. He had a 3D printer and was interested in making parts to make the different systems work together.
So I built the bridge, just a freelance invention of my own, and built the piers using the Lego that used to belong to my children and grandchildren! (2010s)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A variety of small models built by Keith Remnant (04/11/2018)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Massey Ferguson 8690 Tractor from a Tronico kit (27/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A model of a Case IH PUMA 230 CVX Tractor and Trailer from the Tronico Mini Range (27/11/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A collection of aircraft models built by Timothy Edwards. These are all built from either Meccano or Imperial War Museum sets (22/10/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A collection of aircraft models built by Timothy Edwards. These are all built from either Meccano or Imperial War Museum sets (22/10/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Three aircraft models built by Timothy Edwards from Imperial War Museum sets. Lancaster Bomber - Vulcan Bomber - Tornado Combat Jet (22/10/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - A collection of Earth Moving models built by Timothy Edwards from various sets (22/10/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Four models of Earth Moving trucks and Excavators built by Timothy Edwards from modern Meccano sets (22/10/2020)

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Virtual Exhibition 2020 - Two models of JCB Excavators built by Timothy Edwards from JCB branded sets (22/10/2020)

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