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Hi from Basildon in Essex U.K. I have been building engines for about a year now and here is my latest engine an Elmers 29, it took about 3 weeks to build and it runs sweet. I thought it would look good all Blinged up as i used a lot of Brass in making it. hope you like it.

Hi, Kap i havent fired up The Rob Roy as i havent had the boiler certified yet. it is intended to be used with coal, there are also a few handrails to add the cannon was intended as a test piece and i would say it would work as a firecraker cannon Doug

I have a little trick I use if at the start of drilling the hole is not quite spot on or has started to wander i have some very small end mills and I take the closest to the size of the hole I am drilling and remove just enough material so that the hole acts as a guide for the drill, you can...

Paul, I completed a Stuart 10v that I got for Christmas I made a bracket from Ali angle to mount the body to a lathe plate. Fortunately the instructions for making the engine were based on the same lathe that I have. But I did use my milling machine for some of the work. When you mount the...

Kap, i have been building models for just over a year, i started when i got the Rob Roy and wanted to get it as close to finished as i could. I needed a lathe and mill to finish it and i got the mini lathe and mill combo to do it. I then had a the start of a new hobby, the first thing i made was...

Paul, here is my latest beam engine i finished this in December. i got the plans from Elmers engines, the parts are quite tiny and it took 3 attempts to make the cylinder as the drillings kept going out of true, i had to increase the valve drilling to keep it straight. it was also the first time...

This is my little workshop in my shed Doug

Thanks, Kap the rob roy was an impulse buy as my brother had a 1" scale traction engine he got in an auction and i liked the look of it. little did i know that once i had it i could not resist finishing it

thanks for your comments, i had some checker plate that i surfaced with a fly cutter, then i printed the drawing of the side sections to scale, it took about 4 or 5 attempts to get it to print right then i glued the drawing to the aluminum plate and used that as a template. I drilled and filed...

Hi I bought an unfinished Rob Roy from an auction about a year ago this started me off on model engineering. Since then I have bought a C1 combined lathe and mill and a Hobbymat lathe and Hobbymat BFE milling machine. I have so far turned out 6 small model engines and a couple of Wobblers for my...

Hi new to this site, I started making engines from scratch about a year ago. I found that Elmers engine plans are superb for starting all sorts of engines and the best of it is they are free. I have attached a few pictures for you to look at.