Model Engineer & Workshop

Model Engineers' Workshop is the ideal workshop companion for all hobby engineers. Model Engineers' Workshop shines a spotlight on the tools and techniques used by model makers, light engineers, restorers and customisers and those who like making and modding their own tools. You'll find readers' tips, reviews of workshop equipment as well as articles on restoring old tools and making your own as well as the latest new technologies, techniques and materials. Model Engineers' Workshop magazine publishes 12 great issues a year.

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Model Engineer & Workshop

Tankfest 2026 • Neil Wyatt visited an impressive display of full-scale engineering at Bovington Tank Museum, in Dorset.

Early Developments In Hydrostatic Transmissions PART 3 • Mike Tilby of the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers (SMEE) looks at some of the practical aspects of using hydraulic power transmission.

Living with a Proxxon Mini-Mill - A New Spindle • In the first of a few occasional articles, Graham Meek explains how he fitted a new ER20 spindle to his Proxxon mill.

Bolton Steam Museum PART 2 • Roger Backhouse looks at a quartet of compounds at the UK's largest collection of stationary steam engines.

Family history and mill engines.

POSTBAG • The Editor welcomes letters for these columns, but they must be brief. Photographs are invited which illustrate points of interest raised by the writer

3D Printing in the Home Workshop PART 3 • Alan Bryan concludes his review of how a 3D printer can change your hobby, looking at some more storage solutions.

Fourunner Mk2 Oscillating Engine PART 2 • Peter Stuart shares his updated design based on David Fulton's design, described by his son Stuart Fulton in ME&W issues 4776 and 4777.

Lathework Tips • Paul Tiney shares a few tips to make life a little easier, not for you but for your lathe.

Calliper Conundrum • Derek Spedding came up with a solution for making measurements in awkward small spaces.

A Tangential Flycutter • Robert Walker works out the angles to make a fly-cutting toolholder.

Readers’ Tips • We have £30 in gift vouchers courtesy of engineering suppliers Chester Machine Tools for each month's ‘Top Tip’. Email your workshop tips to neil.wyatt@kelsey.co.uk marking them ‘Readers Tips’, and you could be a winner. Try to keep your tip to no more than 400 words and a picture or drawing. Don't forget to include your address! Every month we'll choose a winner for the Tip of the Month will win £30 in gift vouchers from Chester Machine Tools. Visit www.chesterhobbystore.com to plan how to spend yours!

The BR Standard 2-6-0 Class 4 Tender Engine PART 31 • This month Doug Hewson makes a start on the cab.

The Silver Crest BR Class 1500 PART 6 • Mark Thatcher completes his build of this pre-painted and fully machined 5” gauge coal fired locomotive kit from Silver Crest Models

USING SUB-FACEPLATES • These articles by Geometer (Ian Bradley) were written about seventy years ago. While they contain much good advice, they also contain references to things that may be out of date or describe practices or materials that we would not use today either because much better ways are available of for safety reasons. These articles are offered for their historic interest and because they may inspire more modern approaches as well as reminding us how our hobby was practiced in the past.

Improvements to a Pannier Tank PART 2 • Gerald Martyn explains to improvements made to the front end of his 3 ½” gauge locomotive.

On the Wire • News From The World Of Engineering

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